100 Agile Interview Questions and Answers

It doesn’t matter……If you are in traditional PMO or Agile PMO….You need to adapt to the project management methodology that is been implemented in the organisation.

I strongly feel that “Asking Questions is the powerful way to learn a concept in detailed manner”..

I have taken my time to compile a set of 100 Questions & Answers to learn about Agile concepts…

This helped in my continuous learning journey…Hope it helps you as well.

Questions that I briefly answered were below for reference:
  • What Is Agile?
  • When To Use Agile? Give Few Instances
  • What Are Main Values Of Agile?
  • What Are The Various Agile Frameworks?
  • What is 3 C’s of Agile?
  • What Is Scrum?
  • What is the difference and similarity between Agile and Scrum?
  • What are the 5 values of Scrum?
  • What Are Pillars of Scrum?
  • What is Advantages of Scrum?
  • What is different in waterfall when compared to Agile ?
  • What are Agile Testing?
  • What are Principles of Agile Testing?
  • What is TDD?
  • What is Devops?
  • What is Lean documentation?
  • What is Build Breaker?
  • What do you know about Scrum ban?
  • Describe each events in Scrum with Purpose & Outcome?
  • What are the various Scrum events and its duration?
  • What is Theme, Epic , Feature , Story & Tasks?
  • What are 4 different types of burn down?
  • How do you define a user story?
  • What is 3 C’s of User Story?
  • What is INVEST mean?
  • What is been done during Sprint planning meeting?
  • What is Story Points?
  • What are the different methods to estimate the User stories?
  • Why story points use Fibonacci series?
  • What is Velocity and how do you measure?
  • Improvement ways for Velocity?
  • Capacity & Story Points
  • What is Cumulative Flow Diagram?
  • How do you track progress in a sprint? Explain them?
  • What are the advantages of Burn-up/Down Chart?
  • What is backlog refinement?
  • What is Zero sprint?
  • What are the artifacts in Scrum?
  • What are different roles in Scrum?
  • Advantages of Iteration & Increment?
  • What are Impediments in Scrum?
  • What is Definition of Done
  • Examples of Definition of Done?
  • What is Sprint Goals?
  • How do you define Sprint Goals?
  • What does a good product backlog have?
  • How do you define a user story?
  • What are the crucial Agile Metrics?
  • What is Cumulative Flow Diagram?
  • How do you track progress in a sprint? Explain them?
  • What are the advantages of Burn-up/Down Chart?
  • What is role of Scrum Master?
  • What are the basic Scrum Master Checklist?
  • What is the biggest challenge while handling the Scrum team?
  • Removal of impediments as a scrum master on behalf of scrum team?
  • When Scrum cannot be useful?
  • How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner?
  • Name few of the Prioritization technique?
  • Name 5 Prioritization Factors for PBI?
  • Is canceling a Sprint possible? Who can cancel a Sprint?
  • What is the difference between change management in a Waterfall and Agile?
  • What do you mean by term scope creep?
  • What are the most common risks in a Scrum project?
  • How are Risks managed in Agile?
  • State some of the agile retrospective techniques?
  • Do You Allow Someone to Change a Requirement?
  • Scrum Master will be leading or managing the team?
  • 6 effective ways to improve the productivity of an agile development team?
  • What ways Organization can help in motivating the Scrum Team?
  • What are the 7 rules of Scrum?
  • How do you manage bugs in Agile?
  • Improvement ways for Sprint Backlog?
  • 7 essentials of a self-organizing team?
  • Can you explain pair programming and its benefits?
  • What is the Release candidate?
  • Don’t Equate Story Points to Hours! Why?
  • What is Disadvantages of Scrum?
  • What is Scrum of Scrum ?
  • What is discussed during the Scrum of Scrum ?
  • State some of the Agile quality strategies?
  • What do you do if a member of the Scrum team doesn’t want to participate in the Sprint planning meeting?
  • How to deal with the problem when team members are not updating the tasks?
  • During review, suppose the product owner or stakeholder does not agree to the feature implemented what would you do?
  • You are in the middle of a sprint and suddenly the product owner comes with a new requirement, what will you do?
  • In case you receive a story at the last day of the sprint to test and you find there are defects, what will you do? Will you mark the story to done?
  • What is the difference between Jira & MS Project?
  • Agenda for the Sprint Planning Meeting?
  • What is Planning Poker?
  • What are different types of Report in Jira?
  • How will you know how long it will take to deliver a set of user stories?
  • Rules of Thumb for User Stories?
  • 10 Ten Key Factors for Agile Project Success?
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Part II of the Agile Concepts

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