Are You Agile BA Ready?

Welcome to the BA-Cube Agile BA Quiz

BA-Cube Agile BA Quiz!
Test your Agile BA prowess - Just 10 questions to find out how you are doing!

The full Agile BA Assessment is on BA-Cube.com for BA-Cube Premium members, but this will get you a start!

Good luck!

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1. first name

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2. last name

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3. email address

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4. What would be a typical best practice statement to see in a user stories acceptance criteria?

Given a premium user is logged in, when they select to view their order history, then they can view the most recent order and details, and the option to view previous orders is available.

The front end UI has been built and shown to the users and PO

Given the database team has completed building the data model, when they hand off to the front end team, the UI can connect to the database.

The development team has shown the code to the PO

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5. Engaging users in the agile process regularly means the team:

Asks the users to review the user stories for accuracy on a regular basis to ensure that the user story is complete and accurate before going to the development team

Observes the users in their environment, asks them to use new functionality, and provides feedback to the team. Showing the users working software often!

Has the users test the user stories for the team at the end of the sprint, making sure the code works to the specs provided.

Invites the users to the Sprint Demo to see a presentation of the new features and provide their feedback to the team and their review of how the presentation aligns to the specs.

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6. You are new to an existing agile team and inherit a backlog full of technical tasks and detailed technical things. What is your biggest concern as an agile BA?

Prioritizing each item in the backlog

Getting the development teams the details they need to get started

Writing up the detailed specs or acceptance criteria for each item on the backlog

Finding who the user impacted is for each item and rewriting the backlog items into more user value focused backlog items

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7. Non-functional requirements like security, volumes, and performance would typically be documented where on an agile project?

In the acceptance criteria of a user story

On the user story map

In a supplemental document handed off to the team

These things are their own user stories

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8. Visual analysis models like process flows, context diagrams, state diagrams, decision tables, etc… are best used by an agile team in what way?

As a formal part of user story documentation

In a separate document stored in a tool with the user stories

They are not needed for agile teams

As big visual charts in the team’s workspace to huddle around and talk about

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9. The Product Owner and BA work together by:

Leading the team in identifying the smallest thing the team can do to discover more about the user needs

Helping the development team understand the value from a user point of view

Helping the development team understand the user perspective

Communicating the product vision, roadmap and metrics to the team regularly to ensure a shared understanding

All of the above

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10. What best describes how requirements are thought about on an agile team?

Requirements are prioritized hypotheses of what we think might solve for a user problem or goal, so we need to prioritize, build, and get feedback fast to see if we are on track

Requirements are now user stories instead of big requirements specifications

The things required by the product owner for the team to build

Requirements are something that the team discusses together rather than something documented

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11. The three pieces of a user story are:

Who, What, When

Who, What, How

Who, What, Why

Team, Task, Technology

Requestor, Team member, Task

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12. Finish this user story with the best ending…As a smart watch user, I want to set up my default watch face, so that I can _______.

quickly see the most important information to me

setup my parameters

configure the home screen to my liking

see what time it is

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1. first name

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2. last name

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3. email address

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4. What would be a typical best practice statement to see in a user stories acceptance criteria?

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5. Engaging users in the agile process regularly means the team:

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6. You are new to an existing agile team and inherit a backlog full of technical tasks and detailed technical things. What is your biggest concern as an agile BA?

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7. Non-functional requirements like security, volumes, and performance would typically be documented where on an agile project?

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8. Visual analysis models like process flows, context diagrams, state diagrams, decision tables, etc… are best used by an agile team in what way?

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9. The Product Owner and BA work together by:

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10. What best describes how requirements are thought about on an agile team?

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11. The three pieces of a user story are:

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12. Finish this user story with the best ending…As a smart watch user, I want to set up my default watch face, so that I can _______.

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13. Which picture(s) represents a User Story Map: