ADapT Fundamentals Exam

How many steps and stages are in the ADapT Transformation Process?

Nine Steps and Three Stages
Three Steps and Nine Stages
Six Steps and Three Stages
Three Steps and Six Stages

What is meant by the organizational immune-system, in the context of Agile ADapT?

The organizational immune system keeps organizations safe and is based on industry norms and standards.
The organizational immune system ensures that organizations can change the rules easily when required.
The organizational immune system is not formally defined and is not visible but works in the background.
The organizational immune system is accepted norms and formally accepted rules meant to keep the organization safe.

Why is defining a purpose for an organization so important?

Because customers need to understand why the organization exists in the first instance.
Because the organization's purpose is a reflection of the organization's strategy.
Because employees without a purpose will not perform optimally.
Because the purpose of the organization guides all decisions, including strategy.

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the organization’s business model and strategy?

The business model informs what organizational strategy is feasible to pursue.
The business model codifies how the organization will achieve its strategic objectives.
There is a loose connection between the business model and the organizational strategy.
There is no direct link as the Business Model is a reflection of structure not strategy.

Why is a balanced innovation portfolio of cardinal importance?

You need to invest in immediate growth and invest in the future.
You need to create a balance between operational needs and innovation.
Operational efficiency is as important as disrupting your industry.
You need to prioritize new ideas above operational stability to remain competitive.

Which of the following is a factor that correctly determines an organization’s market position?

The importance of a product in your overall product portfolio.
Knowing which companies buy your products.
The overall sales of products like those you sell.
Knowing which companies buys your competitors products.

Which of the following statements BEST identifies the primary touchpoint between product management and most agile approaches?

Agile focus on projects to make products better.
Product management sets timelines for Agile projects.
Agile is a product improvement method.
Agile uses Product Backlogs.

Which of the following correctly identifies an element represented in the Change View a product board?

Product Backlog
Competitors
Jobs-to-be-Done
Value-streams

How would you describe a market?

A place where organizations compete on an equal footing.
The products customers with shared requirements want to buy.
A common place where companies sells various products.
All the buyers and sellers competing in a product category.

Which of the following BEST describes the different levels of Jobs-to-be-done?

Group jobs, related jobs, emotional jobs, and social jobs.
Aspirations, big jobs, little jobs, job-stages, and job steps.
Core jobs, supporting jobs, related jobs, and associated jobs.
Customer jobs, internal jobs, control jobs and assurance jobs.

Which of the following correctly defines the method to gather job requirements?

Direction of change, unit of measure, object, and clarifier.
Verb plus, object plus, clarifier.
Main job, social job, emotional job and related jobs.

How does Jobs-to-be-done describe a customer need?

Understand customer aspirations.
Define a desired outcome.
Doing a job-map.
Doing a switch interview.

What is the area of focus for job-mapping?

The product used to get the job done.
Customer outcomes, defined as jobs they need to get done.
The job owner.
The Main job and closely coupled jobs.

Which innovation types can safely be executed in the existing confines of the organization?

Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4

Why is training so important when organizations want to innovate? Choose the BEST answer.

It helps people to see things from an intuitive perspective.
Innovation is a process that can be understood and learned.
People need to learn many different techniques that can be adapted as required.
People need to understand their role in innovation efforts.

Which of the following correctly describes a type 2 innovation scenario?

DigiApple creates a new product that offers specific but scaled down functionality of their flagship product.
DigiApple has identified a company that buys their products even though they were not designed for the context the customer uses the product.
DigiApple needs to maintain its competitive position by ensuring that its product offers features competitive products offer.
DigiApple is streamlining operational processes to maximize profitability.

How would one BEST validate an innovative idea, before making major investments?

By building a fast prototype that customers can interact with to see it it satisfies their needs.
By doing detailed product design which can be presented to customers for evaluation.
By making sure that the product competes favorably with competitive products.
By carefully planning product features and the effort required to realize these profitably.

What is the role of new and innovative technology in the innovation process?

New and innovative technologies are game changes and must be included in all type 1 and 2 innovation
Understand how other companies applied innovative technologies and only implement these if direct competitors successfully use them.
Ignore new and innovative technology until your organization has developed the skills and capabilities to properly use them.
Game-changing technologies should be investigated to evaluate if they can unlock new value for customers and the organization.

Why would one create a Transformational Canvas?

To identify gaps in the current way of work and changes necessary to enable new innovations.
To document how the organization operates and allign innovation to the current way of work.
To evaluate if the organization's strategy is effective and yield results.
To ensure that the organization appliesindustry best-practice.

Which of the following correctly identifies when a Transformation Canvas needs to be created?

Only initially to create a baseline to ensure good governance.
Initially, to create a baseline and every time significant changes are proposed.
Only when significant changes are made in the business.
Every time new standards and best-practice guidance are made available.

Which of the following BEST describes the difference between agile (with a small a) and Agile (with a capital A)?

Agile with a small 'a' refers to any of the agile methods and Agile with a capital 'A' to management philosophy.
Agile with a capital 'A' refers to methods used in projects and agile with a small 'a' to how the word is generally used.
Agile with a small 'a' refers to a management philosophy and Agile with a capital 'A' to any of the Agile methods.
There is no difference between agile with a small 'a' and Agile with a capital 'A'.

Why are MVPs usefull methods of scaling?

MVPs create prototypes that customers can evaluate to give more meaningful feedback on the proposed design.
MVPs help to create a complete product that covers customers' needs broadly, and comprehensively.
MVPs prove that value is created for customers as soon as possible, and leaves room for further improvement later.
Using MPVs is a great way to create smaller products that could be combined into a larger product offering.

Which of the following is a method to translate high-level requirements into user stories that can be recorded in a product backlog?

Journey mapping
Story mapping
Story point mapping
Backlog mapping

Why are Agile Principles to important?

They describe how to do agile.
They describe how to be agile.
They describe essential agile tools.
They describe why waterfall is not agile.

Which of the following is NOT an Agile Principle?

Detailed pre-planning is a high priority and ensures delivering value to customers.
The highest priority is delivering value to their customers and doing so fast and frequently.
Spend time with customers, users, and employees.
If you want to build something extraordinary, get the people who build it to also design it.

Which of the following describes a valid Agile scaling mechanism?

Nexus
SAFe
PRINCE2
Release Planning

What cannot be used to identify an improvement area to be added to an improvement backlog?

An Innovation Sprint.
Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Lean and Six Sigma
High-priority items in the Product Backlog.

Which of the following shows the steps in type 5 innovation correctly and in the correct order?

Hypothesis definition, finding causes of problems, defining the problem.
Define the problem, develop a solution, and test the hypothesis.
Define the problem, narrow it down and select a response, look for possible solutions.
Look for causes, define and test the hypothesis, and narrow down and select the best solution.

Why is objective operational measurement so important when delivering and supporting products and services?

Measuring operational performance is used to do SLA and OLA reporting.
Measuring operational performance provides evidence that the provider did what was agreed to in case of disputes.
Measuring operational performance provides insights not usually obtained by general observation.
Measuring operational performance is the primary indicator of customer satisfaction levels.

What would NOT be considered a benefit of automation?

Automation is a safe way to ensure that humans don’t make mistakes with complex and nuanced processes.
Standardized and automated processes are easy to measure and provide consistent results.
Automation of routine work is the first step to stop humans to do demeaning work.
Automated work is easy to measure and report on any outcomes that falls outside the measurement norm.

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