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Agile Skills

Your Qualities

  • I am a "SCRUM" Champion.

  • I am well versed with different Software Development. "METHODOLOGIES" like SAFe, KANBAN.

  • I can confidently run "SPRINTS" & "STANDUPS". 

  • I am super good at breaking work into "EPICS", "STORIES" & "TASKS".

  • I track "BURNDOWN" & "VELOCITY".

  • I keep a close eye on "BACKLOG", "PRIORITIZATION" and "CHANGE MANAGEMENT".

Typical Questions

  • What are the different types of agile methodologies that you have used and know about?

  • What are the core components of Scrum that you think are most valuable and what things do you feel are not so valuable?

  • How would you describe the most effective standup?

  • What are the best methods of sizing during a planning meeting

  • What kind of preparation is necessary before you start a sprint planning meeting?

  • How would you decide your sprint length?

  • How do you calculate velocity? And how important is this? Where does calculating velocity not make sense?

  • Have you ever used Kanban? Describe the situation where kanban makes sense and what are its advantages?

  • Differentiate between cycle time vs Lead time?

  • What are the key components of having a successful Agile team?

  • Difference between a burn-up and a burndown chart?

  • Various Agile tools you have used?

  • How would you describe a spike in scrum?

  • Why is CI, CD important?

  • What is your take on documentation within a Scrum team?

  • How do you manage dependencies within an agile development team?

  • What is your take on the SAFe framework?

  • What is your take on MVP?

  • When does a scrum team fail and why?

  • What are the primary advantages of using Scrum?

  • Common problems of estimation during a planning session.

  • How do you split large epic stories? Give an example.

  • have you ever moved a Team to start using agile? If so describe the experience and the hurdles you faced.

  • How do you prioritize when you groom your backlog or Take stories into your sprint?​

Interviewers Motive

  • How well the candidate knows Agile? Depending on the need of the company, the person who is interviewing you they may go deep or just touch the surface.

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A Beautiful Explanation of what is Agile 

YouTube Video by: Sridhar Vembu, CEO Zoho

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As a Project Manager, you would love to keep the trains running on time. The trian runs on pre-laid tracks. What that means is that everything should be predictable. In Software we hardly release on time. Many software projects are like laying tracks on unknown terrain. So how do you keep them on track? Well you "IMPROVISE". You make it as you go. There is a hindi word for it called "JUGAAD" or english word is "MAKESHIFT". i.e. coming to the solution of a problem in a low cost way.  Agile Project Management is the "FORMALIZATION" of that jugaad. What you are doing is you are putting a formal, proven approach to IMPROVISE.  Agile is nothing but "FORMAL IMPROVISATION". 


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