When decomposing stories, the concept of "breadth before depth" signifies progressively breaking down:

A. Estimates and resources required to accomplish the story

B. Backlog items to the lowest level of detail upfront

C. Business goals into user stories representing smaller increments of value

D. Tests to align with usable functionality delivered through each story

Making decisions based on a realistic understanding of current organizational strengths, capabilities, and challenges, is represented in the agile analysis principle of:

A. See the whole

B. Individuals and interactions over process and tools

C. Think as a customer

D. Understand what is doable

Planning horizons are important because they allow an organization to:

A. Support a structured response supported by all levels of the organization

B. Sense and respond to their changing environment

C. Ensure senior management is informed and engaged

D. Allow management guidance for decision making

At the initiative level, solution recommendations incorporate the following:

A. *Iteration plan for the start of delivery *Projected impact to future delivery capability *Priority of the identified need

B. *Ranked goal review *Impacts on other initiatives

*Time and materials analysis

C. *Requirements management plan *MosCoW feature quadrants *Analysis of similar plans from the past

D. *Validation check on any assumption already made *Projected impact on identified need *Estimated costs, including time and money, and others if relevant

At the strategy level, a major component of waste can be avoided by ensuring the enterprise:

A. Only begins an initiative when a budget is approved for all work

B. Has a shared understanding of organizational goals and priorities

C. Has changes to existing work approved by senior management

D. Has comprehensive business cases approved by senior management

During a planning workshop, the team is discussing: "What outcomes are we driving now?" This team is operating at the:

A. Retrospective event

B. Testing phase

C. Initiative horizon

D. Goals horizon

Backlog items that are dependent on other backlog items compromise and limit rapid decision making, fast delivery and strategic alignment by not leveraging:

A. Feedback loops

B. Daily standups

C. Retrospectives

D. Thinking like a customer

The delivery team discusses how to maintain the integrity of their backlog items. They decide to?

A. Delay changes until they are caught up

B. Develop a business case for all changes

C. Monitor stories and features for staleness

D. Ensure all changes are approved

The team is delivering a high priority solution component and is discovering new information about the need and how well the work being delivered satisfies it. They conclude that learnings from this component will be used to:

A. Refine the components

B. Explain the components

C. Implement the components

D. Descope the components

The following type of learning and feedback could result in identifying new items for the backlog:

A. Velocity metrics and retrospective results

B. Flow metrics and testing results

C. Burndown chart and management feedback

D. Impact metrics and stakeholder feedback