A project sponsor wants a high-level view of project health and progress without detailed technical data. Which metric is most appropriate to report?

Burn-up chart showing completed scope versus total scope

Cycle time for individual work items

A team's cumulative flow diagram shows the 'In Progress' band widening over the last four sprints while the 'Done' band stays flat. The team is not changing scope. What is the most likely interpretation and the best next action?

The team is becoming more efficient; continue as is.

The team has too much scope; remove features from the backlog.

Work is piling up in progress, indicating a bottleneck; limit work in progress (WIP) and swarm to clear it.

The team is delivering more value; increase the sprint length.

A team notices that their cycle time has been increasing steadily over the last four sprints. What is the most appropriate first step in analyzing this metric?

Remove the cycle time metric from the dashboard

Investigate the workflow to identify potential bottlenecks or changes in work item size

Ignore the trend because cycle time is not an important agile metric

Immediately increase the team's velocity target

A team's defect count has been increasing, and the product owner is concerned about quality. The team's velocity is stable. The team is considering adding a quality metric to the dashboard. Which metric would best help the team identify the root cause of the defect increase?

Customer satisfaction, because it shows overall happiness

Velocity, because it shows how much work is being done

Defect escape rate, which measures the percentage of defects found in production versus during development

Cycle time, because it shows how fast work is completed

A team is using a digital dashboard that shows velocity, cycle time, and defect count. The team notices that stakeholders are not looking at the dashboard. The team wants to increase stakeholder engagement with the metrics. What should the team do?

Add more metrics to the dashboard to provide more information

Send a weekly email summary of the key metrics

Remove all metrics from the dashboard

Make the dashboard more complex with detailed charts

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16foundation · easy
A project sponsor wants a high-level view of project health and progress without detailed technical data. Which metric is most appropriate to report?
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17application · medium
A team's cumulative flow diagram shows the 'In Progress' band widening over the last four sprints while the 'Done' band stays flat. The team is not changing scope. What is the most likely interpretation and the best next action?
Select an answer first
18foundation · easy
A team notices that their cycle time has been increasing steadily over the last four sprints. What is the most appropriate first step in analyzing this metric?
Select an answer first
19expert · hard
A team's defect count has been increasing, and the product owner is concerned about quality. The team's velocity is stable. The team is considering adding a quality metric to the dashboard. Which metric would best help the team identify the root cause of the defect increase?
Select an answer first
20expert · hard
A team is using a digital dashboard that shows velocity, cycle time, and defect count. The team notices that stakeholders are not looking at the dashboard. The team wants to increase stakeholder engagement with the metrics. What should the team do?
Select an answer first

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