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A new team has been formed with members from different departments who have never worked together. The team is struggling to make decisions, individuals are hesitant to share opinions, and there is a general lack of trust. The DASSM recognizes these as signs of a team in the early stages of development. Which TWO actions are most critical for the DASSM to take to foster psychological safety and help the team progress? (Select TWO)

Question 2Choose one

A financial services organization is adopting Disciplined Agile to improve its portfolio management process. The leadership team wants to ensure that investments are aligned with strategic objectives and that they can visualize the flow of large initiatives from conception to delivery. Which part of the DA tool kit is specifically designed to address these enterprise-level concerns?

Question 3Choose one

A DASSM notices that a highly skilled but quiet team member rarely speaks up during planning sessions, even when they likely have valuable input. The DASSM suspects the team member's introverted nature and the dominance of more vocal members are the cause. To improve this dynamic, the DASSM decides to use a facilitation technique that allows for individual brainstorming before group discussion. Which technique is being applied?

Question 4Choose one

True or False: In Disciplined Agile, the Program lifecycle describes how to organize a large 'team of teams', whose subteams (feature teams and/or component teams) work together on a single solution.

Question 5Choose one

A product owner is struggling to prioritize a large backlog of features, technical debt, and bug fixes. The development team is frustrated because they feel crucial refactoring work is constantly being ignored in favor of new features, leading to a decline in system stability. Which DA process goal provides specific decision points and options for balancing these competing priorities?

Question 6Choose one

A DASSM is coaching a team that is part of a larger program involving five other teams. This team frequently has its work blocked by dependencies on the 'Platform Services' team. The Platform team uses a different planning cadence and is not well-integrated into the program's agile process. Which practice would be most effective for the DASSM to facilitate between these teams to improve coordination and manage dependencies?

Question 7Choose one

**Case Study** A mid-sized e-commerce company, 'ShopFast', has been using a Scrum-based approach for two years. They have four feature teams, a shared database team, and a separate operations team. While individual feature teams have stable velocity, the overall time-to-market for new features is slow, and the business is frustrated. A value stream analysis reveals significant delays during the database schema update and production deployment phases, which are managed by the database and operations teams, respectively. These teams operate with a ticket-based system and have long lead times. The feature teams complain that database changes take weeks to get approved and implemented. The operations team complains about receiving unstable builds with inadequate documentation, forcing them to reject deployments. There is a culture of blame between the teams, and morale is declining. The CTO has asked you, as the new DASSM, to propose a plan to optimize their Way of Working (WoW). Which approach represents the most effective, holistic solution based on Disciplined Agile principles?

Question 8Choose one

A team is adopting the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) approach to improve their measurement strategy. They have established a goal: "Improve the quality of our product." According to GQM, what would be an appropriate next step?

Question 9Choose one

In the Disciplined Agile toolkit, the methodology (originated by Scott Ambler) that provides the practices for collaboratively creating lightweight, 'just barely good enough' models - including envisioning both requirements AND architecture at the start of an endeavor, and just-in-time model storming later - is known as ________.

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A DASSM is working with a team that has become complacent. Retrospectives are stale, with team members repeating the same generic feedback ('things are going well') without identifying concrete areas for improvement. Which of the following is an effective technique to re-energize the team's Guided Continuous Improvement process?

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