Ace Your DASSM PMI Agile Exam

The Minimum Business Increment (MBI) is a tool used in Disciplined Agile to sequence work in a way that delivers value quickly. An MBI represents the smallest piece of functionality that delivers business value to customers or stakeholders, and it is fully usable upon release. By focusing on MBIs, teams can prioritize work that maximizes the delivery of value, ensures faster feedback, and enables quicker realization of benefits.

Options A (Planning Poker) and C (Minimum Viable Product, MVP) are related to estimation and product development strategies, while Option C (WIP limits) focuses on managing workflow efficiency rather than directly sequencing work for quick value delivery.

References:

PMI’s Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) materials.

"Choose Your WoW! A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW)", PMI.

The final step in the "Choose your WoW" (Way of Working) process isGuided Continuous Improvement. This step emphasizes the need for teams to continually assess and refine their way of working based on outcomes, feedback, and learning. The focus is on applying a structured approach to improvement, where teams iteratively experiment with new practices and techniques and adapt based on what works best in their context.

Options B (Make some choices), C (Connect the dots), and D (Select the best-fit life-cycle) are earlier steps in the process, which involve defining the team's initial way of working.

References:

PMI’s Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) curriculum materials.

"Choose Your WoW! A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW)", PMI.

The principle of "Delight customers" in the Disciplined Agile framework encourages teams to exceed customer expectations rather than just meet them. This approach aims to provide exceptional value and experiences that surprise and please customers, thereby fostering loyalty and positive word-of-mouth. Simply meeting expectations is not sufficient to truly "delight" customers; therefore, the statement that delighting customers means just about meeting their expectations is false.

The three categories of process blades in Disciplined Agile (DA) are:

Disciplined DevOps:Focuses on integrating development and operations to streamline workflows, reduce bottlenecks, and ensure continuous delivery and deployment.

Disciplined Agile IT:Encompasses practices that support IT functions, such as Enterprise Architecture, Data Management, IT Governance, and IT Operations.

Disciplined Project Management Office (PMO):Provides strategic alignment, governance, and guidance to ensure that projects and initiatives align with organizational goals and deliver value.

Disciplined Agile Delivery (C) is a process blade itself, not a category, and Disciplined Kanban (D) is not a recognized process blade in DA.