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Question #: 1
Topic #: 6

Your company has 60 developers who are assigned to four teams. Each team has 15 members.
The company uses an agile development methodology.
You need to structure the work of the development teams so that each team owns their respective work while working together to reach a common goal.
Which parts of the taxonomy should you enable the team to perform autonomously?

A. Features and Tasks
B. Initiatives and Epics
C. Epics and Features
D. Stories and Tasks

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by liuliangzhou at Sept. 1, 2022, 8:41 a.m.

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alexax578

Highly Voted 2 years, 4 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Epics consist of Features, which consist of User Stories, which consist of Tasks. We want them to work together (on Epics and Features) and enable them to work autonomously (on User Stories and Tasks).

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giuliohome

2 years, 4 months ago

In Agile Scrum we have epic->user story->task, e.g. read https://adaptmethodology.com/epic-user-story-task/ In this case the question speak about agile therefore we want user stories (from the link above: User stories are regarded as the “heart of Scrum” because they serve as the ‘building blocks’ of the sprint), hence answer is D and neither features (A or C) nor initiatives (B)

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warchoon

2 years ago

Not in MS Scrum workflow :) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-items/guidance/scrum-process-workflow?view=azure-devops

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Def21

2 years, 3 months ago

Agree. By documentation Scrum: Epic > Feature > Product backlog item > Task Agile (including Scrum): Epic > Feature > User story > Task https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-items/guidance/choose-process?view=azure-devops&tabs=agile-process Thus, the answer is either Story/Task or Item/Task

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ieboaix

Highly Voted 1 year, 4 months ago

it is D, read the "Line of autonomy " of the link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/devops/plan/scaling-agile#line-of-autonomy. Epics and Features owns by Management while dev teams own the stories and tasks.

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vsvaid

Most Recent 1 year ago

Selected Answer: D

User stories and tasks

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yana_b

1 year, 3 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Stories and tasks evidenced in the link provided by cam9: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/devops/plan/scaling-agile#line-of-autonomy

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PrinceKumar

1 year, 4 months ago

Stories and Tasks

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renzoku

1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Epic > Feature > Stories > Task Developers works on Stories and develop Tasks daily

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resonant

1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: C

I think it's C. The common goals are the Epics, which are achieved through features. A team owns an epic and then the team splits the epic into features so that each member of the team can work on something different at the same time.

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xRiot007

1 year, 5 months ago

Correct answer is C - Epics and Features. Why ? A - Features and Tasks - while features and tasks are part of agile, this granularity is TOO small for organizing multiple teams B - Initiatives and Epics - granularity is too large. Initiatives are usually managed by program managers, not teams. D - Stories and tasks - granularity is too small. This combo is usually done withing one team for an interation.

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renzoku

1 year, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: C

to enable the teams to perform autonomously work while working to a common goal, I think Epic -> Feature For lower lever like specific work for developers could be Stories -> Task

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victorf_16

1 year, 7 months ago

Accoding to my perspective and knowledge and also validate with chatgpt the answer should be C. Epics and Features

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cam9

1 year, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: C

Everybody got this wrong - is C based on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/devops/plan/scaling-agile#line-of-autonomy

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gerardjongh

8 months, 3 weeks ago

it is D, read the "Line of autonomy " in your link carefully. Epics and Features owned by Management while dev teams own the stories and tasks.

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Mcelona

1 year, 10 months ago

Selected Answer: D

I Think D

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Yatoom

2 years, 2 months ago

Selected Answer: B

I would suggest answer B: Initiatives and Epics. - Initiatives are collections of epics that drive toward a common goal. - An initiative compiles epics from multiple teams. Source: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/epics-stories-themes

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liuliangzhou

2 years, 4 months ago

Selected Answer: D

A user story is a tool used in Agile software development.

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