Scaled Agile interview questions

SAFe, LeSS, and cross-team dependency management.

3 questions in Agile Coaching.

Agile Coaching and ScalingA 18-minute read on how the topic fits together, before the questions.Agile coaching fundamentals56 short answers on one page, for revising rather than studying.

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hardScenarioBehaviouralCase Study

A team tells you the scaled agile rollout is process for its own sake and wants no part of it. What do you do?

Treat the objection as evidence about the rollout before treating it as a feeling about change. Most of the time part of it is accurate, and the coaching job is to separate the accurate part, get it changed for everyone, and be honest about the part that is not negotiable.

7 minsenior, staff, lead

hardScenarioCase Study

Three teams building one product are on different cadences and each waits on the others. Would you align their sprints?

Aligning cadences makes the waiting comparable and gives you one integration point, which is worth having. It does not shorten the queue - it only tidies the moment work joins one. The reduction comes from changing who is allowed to make the change.

7 minsenior, staff, lead

hardScenarioCase StudyDesign

Six months into a scaled agile rollout the sponsor asks whether it is working. What do you measure, and what do you refuse to report?

Report the interval a customer experiences and the quality of what arrives, measured end to end across the programme rather than aggregated from teams. Refuse adoption counts, aggregated velocity and anything that a team can improve by reclassifying its own work.

7 minsenior, staff, lead