Question

1. What are relationships within a highly collaborative team based on?
   1. Trust
   2. Communication
   3. Collaboration
   4. Alignment
2. How is average lead time measured in kanban?
   1. Measure the horizontal distance between arrival and departure lines on cumulative flow diagram
   2. Measure the lead time for at least three items and calculate the statistical mean of the items
   3. By taking the average velocity over the last three iterations
   4. Measure the vertical distance between arrival and departure lines on cumulative flow diagram
3. What does a Scrum Master support in order to help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions?
   1. A team’s effort in relentless improvement
   2. Invest in architectural run-way
   3. Increasing quality practices
   4. Building a high-performance team
4. When should centralized decision making be used?
   1. When there are significant economies of scale
   2. When making frequent decision
   3. When decisions are short-term in duration - Wrong
   4. When decisions need specific local context

Answer 1

1. Trust

Relationships in teams can be built if there is trust between all the team members, collaboration, communication and alignment are also elements of a collaborative team which can exist if there is trust between members.

2. Measure the horizontal distance between arrival and departure lines on the cumulative flow diagram

Lead time tells the time a product takes in a process from the starting to the finishing point and can be calculated by measuring the horizontal distance between the beginning or arrival line and the departure or bottom line.

3. A team’s effort in relentless improvement

teams effort in relentless improvement is making the team efficient enough for taking responsibility for their actions and improving them continuously.

4. When there are significant economies of scale

When the decisions are made for larger economic benefits from a common way or working, standard development procedures etc then the decisions are made with a centralized approach.