PMI Agile DASSM Updated Exam

In Lean, the role of management is to create an environment where teams can thrive and deliver maximum value. This involves fostering a culture that encourages collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation. Management is responsible for providing support, removing impediments, and ensuring that teams have the resources they need to be successful. The goal is to empower teams to make decisions, own their processes, and focus on delivering value to customers.

Options A, B, and D do not align with the principles of Lean management. Lean emphasizes minimizing waste (like unnecessary documentation) and does not focus on providing MVPs directly to the team (Option B). Ensuring decisions are not made regionally (Option D) is also not a core role of management in Lean.

References:

"Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation," James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones.

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

An iteration backlog is created at the beginning of each sprint (or iteration) during the iteration planning meeting. The iteration backlog consists of a set of user stories or tasks that the team commits to completing during that specific iteration. Option A (beginning of each project) is incorrect because the iteration backlog is not created once for an entire project but is defined at the start of each sprint. Option B (defining the MBI) and Option C (planning a Kanban board) do not specifically align with the concept of an iteration backlog in agile.

In Disciplined Agile, teams avoid spending a considerable amount of time at the beginning to lock down the architecture and design of the product. Instead, DA promotes an iterative and incremental approach, where architecture and design evolve as the team gains more understanding of the project requirements and constraints. This adaptive approach reduces the risks associated with upfront design and supports flexibility and responsiveness to change. Therefore, the correct answer is "False" because DA does not advocate for a long, upfront architecture and design phase.

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A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a Minimum Business Increment (MBI) serve different purposes in the Disciplined Agile framework. An MVP (Option C) represents the smallest version of a product that can be released to customers to provide feedback and validate assumptions, whereas an MBI (Option D) is a small, deployable unit of value that builds upon an existing product and is designed to deliver business value incrementally. Option D is correct because an MBI is generally built incrementally on top of an existing product to enhance or add new capabilities. The other options do not correctly describe the relationship or distinction between MVP and MBI in the DA framework.