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Agile 01Introduction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Agile techniques used to do? | provide focus on prioritizing competing priorities |
| 4 Agile principles? | face to face interaction, meaningful learning, self organizing teams, incremental and or iterative learning that exploit the imagination |
| What in Agile can change the mindset in the classroom and advance educational goals? | Agile Principles |
| What does the Agile Manifesto Express? | Definitive values & principles of Agile |
| What environment do project leaders and teams find themselves in? | An environment disrupted by exponential advances in technology and demands from customers for more immediate delivery of value |
| What do Agile techniques and approaches effectively do? | Manage disruptive technologies |
| What is the 1st principle of Agile? | Customer satisfaction as the highest priority |
| What is key in delivering products and services that delight customers? | Customer Satisfaction |
| What does the widespread use of social media make readily available to the customer? | Rapid & transparent customer feedback loops |
| What does a company need to add to the internal focus in order to stay competitive and relevant? | Outward focus to the customer experience |
| What are disruptive technologies rapidly changing and how? | The playing field by decreasing the barriers to entry |
| What challenges are more mature organizations facing? | Prone to being highly complex & potentially slow to innovate |
| What is the main concern when a mature organization is slow to innovate due to complexities? | They lag behind in delivering new solutions to their customers |
| What is a benefit that come with smaller organizations and startups versus large mature organizations? | Speed of change - rapidly produce products that fit customer needs |
| What will create the need for an Agile mindset within a large or mature organization and why? | Speed of change to stay competitive and keep existing market share |
| The Agile Practice guide addresses what three main points? | Project life cycle selection, Implementing Agile (creating & delivering), Organizational considerations for Agile projects |
| What does the Agile Practice Guide focus on? | Project Focus |
| What is OCM? | Organizational Change Management |
| Is OCM a methodology or a discipline? | OCM is a Discipline |
| For what is OCM essential? | Implementing or transforming practices |
| What is one item that enables disruptive technology? | Cloud Computing - decreases the barriers to entry |
| What financial benefits induce companies to move to cloud computing? | Less cost: Reduced upfront fee, subscription service, pay as you go or pay as you use model |
| What are companies moving to cloud computing? | Updated technologies, platforms, infrastructure are released into cloud computing |
| In what fashion are companies moving technologies to cloud computing? | Iterative and Incremental |
| Who is the Agile practice guide best used by? | Project teams that find themselves in the messy middle of predictive and agile approaches |
| What are project teams trying to address when relying on the Agile practice guide? | Project Teams Address rapid innovation and complexity |
| What are project teams dedicated to when relying on the Agile practice guide? | Project Teams are Dedicated to the team's improvement |
| What are project teams trying to accomplish when relying on the Agile practice guide? | Project Teams Deliver business value to meet customer expectations & needs |
| What is the overview of Agile life Cycle Selection? | There are various life cycles - addressing suitability filters, tailoring guidelines, common combinations of approaches |
| What is the overview of creating an Agile environment? | Critical factors to consider when creating an Agile environment - servant leadership & team composition |
| What is the overview of delivering in an Agile environment? | How to organize teams, common practices teams can use for delivering value on a regular basis, empirical measurements for teams and for reporting status |
| What are the organizational considerations for project agility? | Organizational factors that impact the use of agile approaches: culture, readiness, business practices, and the role of the PMO |
| What are the impacts to an organization using agile approaches? | Culture, readiness, business practices, and the role of the PMO |