Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

CAPM · 60 questions

• A city's citizen chatbot needs change after nearly every town hall as residents request new intents and languages. Which delivery approach is most appropriate for that uncertainty?
• A county digital services lead compares adaptive and predictive delivery for a benefits-application portal. Which statement best captures a common trade-off of the adaptive approach?
• Procurement prefers a predictive baseline for a contractor-built 311 mobile app, while product owners worry about discovering the wrong features late. Which statement best reflects that trade-off?
• A city hall innovation lab seats the product owner, developers, and UX designer together for a short adaptive civic portal effort. What organizational condition does that arrangement primarily support?
• A statewide grants portal team is fully virtual and still wants to run adaptive iterations. What does that setup most need to succeed?
• A matrixed GIS layer squad reports to both a functional GIS manager and a product owner for an adaptive map release. What condition most improves adaptive success in that structure?
• A municipality adopting adaptive delivery already has a Scrum playbook and Definition of Done templates in its process library. How should those assets be classified for suitability?
• Labor union rules require 30-day notice before changing certain civic team roles mid-initiative. How should that constraint be recognized when assessing adaptive suitability?
• A department culture forbids acting on lessons learned until after a fixed annual release, even when mid-sprint feedback shows a permit form is failing citizens. How does that culture affect adaptive suitability?
• A locked-specification concrete dam gate pour has no meaningful learning value once forms are set and mid-pour scope experiments would be unsafe. Which conclusion about approach suitability is most appropriate?
• A civic digital-twin program includes a fixed sensor-network build and a citizen-facing UI that will learn from monthly public demos. How should the team compare approaches across those workstreams?
• A new adaptive team delivering a parks reservation app can browse a citywide library of prior retrospective outcomes and improvement experiments. What kind of asset is that library?
• A permits application team plans work in fixed-length cycles that aim to produce a potentially usable increment of software each cycle. What is that logical unit of planning and delivery called?
• A municipal open-data team debates one-week versus longer iterations for tiny catalog fixes. Which statement best captures a trade-off of very short iterations?
• A predictive WBS element labeled "Reporting module" for a tax portal must feed adaptive delivery. What is the most appropriate translation for successive iterations?
• When shaping near-term scope for an adaptive municipal licensing portal, which inputs should the team emphasize rather than relying only on a frozen statement of work?
• A county parks team tracks a recreation-portal rebuild with burndown charts, velocity, and increment reviews, while a parallel street-resurfacing project tracks schedule and cost variance against a fixed baseline. What distinction should the associate apply?
• A municipal recreation department rebuilds online class registration and chooses two-week iterations as its delivery cadence. What does that choice primarily represent?
• A homeless-services intake form rebuild uses eight-week iterations, and frontline caseworkers only see working software at the end of each cycle. What is the main drawback of that long cadence?
• A city finance WBS includes a work package labeled "Payment gateway." The adaptive team breaks it into stories such as tokenize card, send receipt email, and support a refund path across upcoming iterations. What practice does that illustrate?
• Before the next iteration of a permits portal, the team refines the product backlog and then runs sprint planning. How do those events relate to adaptive scope for the upcoming iteration?
• A public-health clinic app team completes and reviews stories every sprint, while leadership also keeps a twelve-month predictive baseline for a related facilities project. For the adaptive app work, which tracking emphasis is more appropriate?
• A city clerk’s records desk uses Kanban-style continuous flow with WIP limits instead of Scrum sprints. What serves as a primary logical control unit in that setup?
• A vacant-property map is delivered in small increments so the team can inspect and adapt each release, but department heads must attend frequent reviews. Which statement best captures that trade-off?
• A flood-alert SMS service was planned with a phase-based WBS (requirements, build, test, launch). The team now wants adaptive delivery. What is an appropriate next step?
• A library holds a prioritized backlog for a catalog mobile app and wants an adaptive forecast of when remaining work might finish. Which input best supports that forecast?
• A business-licensing portal team works in an adaptive Scrum-style approach. Which set best represents common adaptive control artifacts they would use?
• A records-digitization flow visualizes intake, scanning, QC, and publish columns and caps how many folders sit in scanning at once. Which adaptive control artifact is in use?
• Before calling a citizen-feedback form "done" each iteration, the team checks accessibility, peer review, automated tests, and staging deploy. What adaptive quality artifact is that checklist?
• After a sprint review for a park-permit widget, the team records which backlog items stakeholders accepted and which were sent back. Why are those notes useful as a control artifact?
• An operations center posts a large visible display of cycle time for citizen service requests so anyone walking by can see trends. What adaptive artifact is that display?
• After each retrospective, a civic data team parks improvement experiments on a visible board and checks whether each experiment helped. What kind of adaptive artifact is that board?
• A wastewater-reporting portal keeps refinement notes that update story details and ordering as citizen needs change. How should the associate view the product backlog in that setting?
• A multi-sprint parking-app launch tracks total scope versus completed scope across iterations on a chart that rises toward a release line. Which adaptive artifact is that?
• On a civic open-data team using Scrum, the Scrum Master maintains a running list of blockers such as delayed API access and stalled vendor keys. What adaptive artifact is that list?
• A sponsor asks the adaptive team rebuilding a 311 mobile intake to treat the predictive cost baseline as its primary day-to-day control. What should the associate recognize?
• A grants-finder web app adopts Scrum. Which statement correctly identifies core Scrum components at CAPM depth?
• A city GIS team compares Extreme Programming practices with Scrum for a mapping API. Which contrast is accurate at associate level?
• A municipal call-center tooling team wants Kanban rather than Scrum. Which components correctly describe Kanban at CAPM depth?
• Leadership mentions SAFe® for coordinating several civic digital teams and asks how it differs from single-team Scrum. What CAPM-appropriate distinction applies?
• A county records office has continuous intake of digitization requests with no versioned release train, while a separate team ships a citizen app on a cadence of planned releases. Which methodology-component fit is most appropriate?
• A city parks app team using Scrum debates who decides the order of backlog items for the next sprint of trail-map features. How does Scrum typically assign that prioritization responsibility compared with some Kanban service-management setups?
• A municipal benefits-calculator team comparing Extreme Programming (XP) with Scrum notices developers freely improve any module. Which XP practice does that reflect that Scrum does not prescribe as a core component?
• Several city departments want a shared permitting platform and schedule a large, multi-team planning event to align features for the next program increment. Which framework-level component are they adopting that basic single-team Scrum does not include?
• A county records modernization team runs Scrum Sprints and also mirrors some Kanban habits. What is a fair distinction between Scrum’s Sprint Retrospective and typical Kanban continuous-improvement cadences?
• A town manager says the recycling-route planner ‘should just do Agile’ and assumes Scrum, XP, Kanban, and SAFe® are interchangeable checklists. What should the project team explain?
• A public-works digital twin team asks whether a daily coordination meeting is mandatory. How should they contrast Scrum and Kanban on this point?
• A benefits eligibility calculator for residents is built with a strong Extreme Programming influence. Which distinguishing XP emphasis should the team protect for verifying features with the customer’s voice?
• A library holds-notification story is marked ‘coded’ mid-Sprint. What success criteria should the adaptive team apply before calling the task done?
• A 911 texting feature set for citizens has limited Sprint capacity. How should the Product Owner prioritize adaptive backlog work?
• A parking-permit renewal story is ‘almost coded’ but fails its acceptance tests. What is the correct interpretation of success?
• A downtown festival app backlog is overcrowded. Which approach best shows explicit adaptive prioritization for the next release slice?
• A severe-weather alert mobile app has both life-safety push alerts and cosmetic theme polish in the backlog. What prioritization choice fits adaptive success thinking?
• A voting-information page story lists functional clicks but says nothing about screen-reader support. What should the team include in success criteria?
• During a Sprint, a production incident shows a high-value fix for the utility outage map outranks a planned cosmetic story. What is an appropriate adaptive response?
• Developers merged code for a restaurant-inspection lookup story but cannot demonstrate working software to health-department stakeholders. How should success be judged?
• A citizen self-service portal needs an identity-integration enabler before several journeys can ship. Low-value brochure pages are also waiting. How should the backlog be ordered?
• A building-permit status story keeps reopening after demos because ‘done’ meant different things to clerks and developers. What practice reduces those reopen loops?
• A vocal council aide demands a low-value vanity feature jump the citizen-reporting backlog. What should the team avoid?
• A public-records request tracker uses an adaptive task board. What should the columns primarily represent?