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Answer and feedback guide
Agile is best described as which of these?
A project-management software category: Tools may support agile work, but they do not define the mindset.
A mindset of adaptation and customer value expressed through different frameworks (best answer): Correct. The mindset comes first; Scrum is one possible framework.
Another name for Scrum: Scrum is one member of the agile family, not the family itself.
A certification programme: Agile ideas are not owned by a certification programme.
Fully known requirements, costly late change, and slow feedback most strongly suggest which starting approach?
Adaptive, regardless of the constraints: Adaptation helps when useful feedback can change the next decision; this situation offers little of that advantage.
Predictive (best answer): Correct. Knowable requirements and costly change make deliberate prediction a defensible fit.
No planning: Agile never means abandoning planning.
Whichever approach the team enjoys: Fit comes from the work and constraints, not fashion or preference alone.
Who is accountable for ordering the Product Backlog?
Scrum Master: The Scrum Master serves effectiveness, not product-value ordering.
Developers by majority vote: Developers own how they build; Product Backlog order has one accountable owner.
Product Owner (best answer): Correct. The Product Owner turns stakeholder disagreement into an ordered decision.
The most senior stakeholder: The accountability exists so rank or volume does not silently decide the order.
What is the purpose of the Daily Scrum?
Give a manager individual status reports: Turning the event into reporting undermines its purpose and self-management.
Developers inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and plan their day (best answer): Correct. It is the team's navigation huddle, by the team and for the team.
Record attendance: Attendance tracking does not create inspection or adaptation.
Fill a recurring calendar slot: Events exist for decisions, not ceremony.
If work in progress doubles while throughput stays constant, average lead time will roughly do what?
Halve: More simultaneous work does not create more completion capacity.
Stay the same: With unchanged throughput, extra inventory waits longer.
Roughly double (best answer): Correct. Little's Law connects lead time, work in progress, and throughput.
Become impossible to reason about: Variation matters, but the relationship still provides a useful system-level expectation.
A team ships many features while customer results stay flat and retrospectives change nothing. What does that most strongly suggest?
High performance because output is high: Output volume alone does not establish value or learning.
Activity disconnected from outcomes and improvement (best answer): Correct. Ask what outcome changed and what the team changed about how it works.
Proof that agile cannot work: The evidence diagnoses this system; it does not settle every possible practice or context.
Results are never measurable: Outcomes may lag or need careful proxies, but they should not disappear from the conversation.