Question 1

Stakeholders

Accepted Answer

Anyone with a stake / interest in the Scrum Team and it's outcomes could be a stakeholder to the Scrum Team. Stakeholders could be internal as well as external to the organization.

Internal stakeholders may be people from various functions / departments of the organization such as: finance, sales-marketing, infrastructure, customer support, release management, etc.

External stakeholders may include clients, paying customers, end users, consumers, prospects, etc.

Question 2

Kanban

Accepted Answer

Kanban is a lean method, a framework to visualize work and improve the flow of value.

Initiated by Toyota as part of the Toyota Production System, Kanban (in Japanese) is a visual card used as a scheduling system, showcasing the essential information and progress of the work in a factory.

Question 3

Self-Managing Team

Accepted Answer

A self-managing team is empowered to internally decide who does what, when, and how. It is responsible and accountable for all or most aspects / decisions of planning and producing a product or delivering a service.

Question 4

Agile Software Development

Accepted Answer

The [Agile Manifesto] (https://agilemanifesto.org) first coined the term 'Agile Software Development'. It refers to the way of developing Software (or Products / Services / Value) that is responsive to the customer's changing needs.

It is also referred as 'Agile Development' to refer to much broader applications outside the field of Software Development.

Question 5

Burn Up Chart

Accepted Answer

A Burn Up Chart is a graphical representation used to track how much work has been completed against the time passed.

The graph starts at 0-0 at the beginning of the Sprint and will tend (Burn) up towards Right as the days pass and top as the work is completed.

A Burn Down Chart is a more effective tracking approach compared to the Burn Up Chart.

Also see: [Burn Down Chart](https://glossary.agileforgrowth.com/faqs/burn-down-chart)

Question 6

Framework

Accepted Answer

A framework could be a collection of guidelines, rules and elements that provide a structure and boundary but not the prescription to achieve something.

For Example: The game of Chess (a framework) offers:
* The chess board (8x8 squares)
* The chess pieces (Material)
* The rules about how each piece is placed, how each piece moves across the board

A chess player gets to decide their strategy, which piece they move and where, how they secure their king and how they use their queen. The game of the Chess doesn't prescribe any of this.

Question 7

Complex System

Accepted Answer

A complex system is a collection of interdependent parts, modules, and/or variables. A perfect understanding of individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system's behaviour.

The state of a complex system can't be predicted due to the reason that it's parts dynamically change and every change influences the state of other parts and the overall system.

Please analyze your work environment in 2021, and identify which of these variables change in your work environment?

* Customer Needs
* Technology
* Talent/People
* Competition
* Organizational Goals
* Marketplace
* Government Regulation
* All of the Above

If you answered All of the above (or many of the above) your work environment is complex.

Question 8

Facilitation

Accepted Answer

Facilitation is an intervention through which a group improves the way it communicates, examines and addresses problems, and makes decisions.

A neutral and unbiased facilitator would create the environment, design the structure and may use various facilitation techniques to help a group improve it's effectiveness.