Agile E1 - Competency QA

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1.

When multiple team members are working on a related feature, how often should
they integrate their work?
 In a scheduled daily (or multiple times in a day) frequency

2. In a team, if someone gets stuck with the technical tasks during the iteration, what is
the immediate next step?
 The team member can reach out to other team members for help.

3. Have you undergone any ‘LivingAgile’ session conducted by Agile Ninja Coaches or Unit
Agile Leaders?
 No

4. If you are asked to bring in agile way of working into the way a meeting runs, which
one among the listed options will you implement?
 Meeting must be facilitated and time-boxed

5. In a team, if all the members do regular check-in of the code, then how does one
ensure that the code is not broken anywhere?
 Through SCM (Source Code Management tool) triggered build

6. How does an agile team manage requirements in a productive manner?


 All the requirements should be maintained in a common place such as Wiki /
Jira / Whiteboard and managed by the entire team

7. Which among the following is a recommended way to run Retrospectives?


 Team discusses how they can improve their way of working, picks up one or two
improvement areas for next iteration

8. In the middle of the iteration, how does a team handle requirement changes from the
customer?
 Team may take up the changes in flight after discussing the overall impact with
the Product Owner

9. After a team member creates a working code at her level, what is the fundamental
way to ensure quality of each line?
 Through formal unit testing using tools/softwares/plugins

10. When a Product Owner brings up an interesting feature/idea, how should a team
respond?
 Team should analyze the feature/idea based on the domain knowledge, validate
the same or such

11. Given a piece of work to be executed in agile, how would you form a team?
 Team must have all required skills, headcount being less than 12

12. What would be a suggested way to share and sustain knowledge with members in a
team?
 Updating best practices, lessons learnt and other topics in a central place
accessible to all

13. How can one ensure that the code adheres to good coding standards?
 The code has to pass through the static code analysis without any violations

14. What do you think is a good way for team members to remain updated on work status
at any given time?
 Having a updated physical/digital Kanban board

15. How should a team have quality standards built into its deliverables?
 By having an agreed and evolving set of Definition of Done items, which are
automated wherever possible

16. What would be a standard way for anyone outside an agile team (e.g Delivery Partner
of the account) to get the status of the work at any point in time?
 He/she can refer the physical/digital Kanban board which is maintained by the
team

17. In a team that follows agile, how would a team member know about the details of
what others are working on?
 The team should have a daily sync-up

18. For an Agile team, what is an easy way to track the tasks?
 All the tasks can be maintained in a common place such as a Wiki / Jira / excel /
physical board / wall / any other system with an indication of ‘To be
done/Doing/Done’

19. How does the team know what to work upon during the iteration?
 The team participates in iteration planning during which the team discusses with
the Product Owner and finalizes who should work on what.

20. When in a team, following Location Independent Agile model, there are people
distributed across geographies what can be a basic recommendation?
 The members must have at least 3 hours overlap time between all of them

21. When you have more than one agile team working on a single product, which all
among the following are critical considerations?
 Product Owner/Product Specialist to devote similar time to all teams.
 Team to have occasional sync-up meets to eliminate dependencies.

22. What happens if the offshore team members are not able to participate in the
iteration demo due to timezone/infrastructure issues?
 Offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the Product Owner
and get the direct feedback about the increment they created.

23. If you are working in a customer facing agile team, who is more mature/ready of Agile?
 Our TCS Team
24. If you are in an agile team, do you have distributed team members? Which of the TCS
Location Independent Agile Models do you follow? (M1 – distributed agile team
members with 3 hrs common time. M2 – 2such M1 teams, M3 – 3 such M1 teams with
more than one ProductOwner/specialist, M4 – 4 such M1 teams with more than one
ProductOwner/specialist)
 M3 or M4

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