And the team is really clicking its been a long time

And
the team is
really clicking! It’s
been a long time since
I’ve enjoyed work so
much.
Did you see that email
from the CEO? Sales are
through the roof, and it’s all
because of the new features
we added.
In fact, it’s gone so well that Ben has
some fantastic news that everyone
will want to hear. Nice work, team!
Thanks to the latest
sales, We just got a new
round of venture capital funding...
and that means bonuses for
everyone !

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1. When a deadline’s been set, and the scope is adjusted to meet it
3. A great way to manage changing requirements
6. How often to deliver
12. When teams repeatedly perform all of the project activities in small
chunks
13. What the team does to its behavior after a retrospective
16. An effective way to communicate complex requirements and ideas
19. There’s no single “________” way to build software
22. What we do with customers
23. Something that shouldn’t be punished if you want a motivated team
24. What business people and developers must do
together daily
25. Very useful for agile teams because they help get the work done
26. At regular ________ the team reflects on how to become more
effective
27. The most effective and efficient method of conveying information
28. Teams work best when you pay attention to them
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2. When to deliver software
4. The kind of delivery agile teams try to achieve
5. Attitude toward customers or other teams that requires strict agree-
ments before any work can start
7. What agile teams respond to
8. You need to _______ the team to get the job done
9. Traditional but often less-than-effective way to build software
10. The kind of individuals to build projects around
11. Working software is the primary measure of _______
14. Where the original authors of the Agile Manifesto got together
15. What happens to your team if you create a culture of fear
17. Agile teams still follow one
18. The kind of software delivered at the end of every iteration
20. The kind of users that are the highest priority for agile teams
21. Avoid this if you can
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exam questions
Exam Questions
1. You’re a project manager on a team building network firmware for embedded systems. You’ve called a
meeting to give a demo of the latest version of code the team has been working on for a control panel interface
to a very technical group of business users and customers. This is the fifth time that you’ve called a meeting
to do a demo like this. And for the fifth time, the users and customers asked for specific changes. The team will
now go back and work on a sixth version, and you’ll repeat the process again.
Which of the following BEST describes this situation?