PRINCE2 PRINCE2-Agile-Foundation PRINCE2 Agile Foundation (Version 2) Exam Exam Practice Test

A key benefit of being and doing agile is increasing user satisfaction by delivering value early and continuously, adapting to feedback, and ensuring the product meets real user needs. Agile approaches emphasize collaboration with customers and iterative delivery, which enhances satisfaction compared to traditional, rigid methods.

While following processes (A) and using agile techniques (B) are means to an end, they do not directly guarantee benefits. Focusing solely on tasks (D) risks losing sight of value delivery.

User satisfaction is a central measure of agile success and reflects the effective application of agile principles.

The Agile Enablement Workshop is specifically designed to support the transition of teams and organizations into agile ways of working. Its primary purpose is to identify, assess, and plan for risks related to agile adoption. This includes challenges like cultural resistance, skills gaps, tooling needs, and process adaptations. The workshop ensures that these risks are proactively managed to smooth the agile transformation and increase the chances of successful agile delivery.

By focusing on agile adoption risks rather than project delivery or business as usual, the workshop addresses the foundational changes required for agility at team and organizational levels. Effective enablement workshops facilitate buy-in, identify training needs, and help tailor agile frameworks to the organization's context.

The Progress practice in PRINCE2 Agile is focused on providing a forecast of the project's viability by monitoring actual progress against plans and predicting future performance. It ensures that decisions can be made based on current status and trends, enabling timely interventions if necessary.

This practice involves collecting progress data, reviewing milestones, updating forecasts, and communicating status to stakeholders. Forecasting viability includes assessing whether the project remains aligned with business justification and expected benefits.

While opportunities and threats are part of risk management (B), user needs belong to requirements management (C), and accountability is a broader governance concern (D), progress specifically deals with tracking and forecasting delivery status.

The practice combines traditional PRINCE2 stage controls with agile iterative reviews, providing an integrated view of progress.

The Managing Product Delivery process includes agreeing on and controlling the requirements for the delivery of specialist products. This process ensures that team managers understand the scope and quality expectations before work begins and that delivery aligns with the project plan.

Initiating a project and starting up a project establish overall direction but do not handle detailed delivery requirements. Managing a stage boundary reviews progress and plans the next stage.

This process maintains clarity and accountability for delivery within PRINCE2’s framework, facilitating effective control over specialist products.

The Team Retrospective Workshop is explicitly designed to facilitate team growth and continuous improvement in working practices. It is a fundamental agile practice where the team reflects on the recently completed work or sprint to identify what went well, what didn’t, and what could be improved. The goal is to foster an environment of trust and openness, enabling teams to discuss challenges and successes honestly.

Retrospectives promote inspect and adapt principles by encouraging teams to continuously evaluate their processes, collaboration, and tools. They help uncover systemic issues, process bottlenecks, or interpersonal challenges that may be impeding productivity or quality. Teams use this feedback to implement actionable improvements, which can range from adjusting communication methods to refining definitions of done or ready.

This workshop supports a key agile mindset—continuous learning and improvement—which directly contributes to team maturity, performance, and morale. Importantly, retrospectives are not about assigning blame but rather about fostering a growth mindset that accepts change as an opportunity to evolve.

While Project Kickoff Workshops (A) initiate project alignment and Progress Review Workshops (C) monitor project status, they do not primarily focus on team process improvements. The Team Planning Workshop (D) is concerned with planning upcoming work, not retrospection.

In PRINCE2 Agile, retrospectives are a critical tool to blend traditional project management with agile principles by promoting regular reflection and incremental enhancements.

The Recommend step in issue management involves analyzing the issue and evaluating possible options to resolve it. At this stage, the project team or responsible individuals identify potential solutions, weigh their pros and cons, and recommend the best course of action to decision-makers.

Capture is the initial identification and recording of the issue, Decide involves making the final decision on the recommended solution, and Implement is the execution of the chosen resolution. Evaluating options thoroughly during the Recommend phase helps ensure informed decision-making and effective issue resolution.

This structured approach aligns with PRINCE2’s focus on proactive issue management, maintaining control and reducing risk impacts.

Culture refers to the collective attitudes, values, beliefs, and goals shared by a group or organization. It shapes how people behave, make decisions, and interact. In PRINCE2 Agile, understanding and adapting organizational culture is critical for successful agile adoption and delivery.

Leadership (B) influences culture but is distinct, co-creation (C) is a collaborative approach, and management (D) relates to planning and control activities.

A positive, agile-friendly culture fosters openness, trust, and continuous improvement.

Delegation poker is a collaborative game used to define and clarify decision-making authority within teams. It helps teams agree on who has the power to make decisions for specific areas, from the team level to senior management. Using cards representing different levels of delegation, team members discuss and align expectations, ensuring clarity and reducing conflicts.

This technique fosters transparency, shared ownership, and empowerment, which are critical for agile teams operating under PRINCE2 governance. It also helps balance autonomy and control, supporting the principle of manage by exception.

Other options: a team skills matrix documents competencies, personas represent user archetypes for design, and magic estimation is a sizing technique — none focus on decision authority.

Delegation poker aligns well with PRINCE2 Agile’s emphasis on defined roles and empowered teams.

A key criterion for the Definition of Ready is that acceptance criteria are measurable. This ensures that work items are clearly understood, well-defined, and have objective criteria to confirm when they are complete. Measurable acceptance criteria reduce ambiguity and support efficient development and quality assurance.

Other options describe completion or handover stages, which are more relevant to the Definition of Done, not Ready.

The Release Planning Workshop is the forum where planning for the next stage occurs in PRINCE2 Agile. This workshop brings together the project management team and delivery teams to plan the scope, schedule, and resources for the upcoming release or stage. It helps align business priorities with delivery capacity and supports incremental and iterative delivery approaches.

The Team Planning Workshop focuses on more detailed planning at the team level within the release, the Team Retrospective Workshop is dedicated to reflecting on performance and improving processes, and the Progress Review Workshop is for reviewing progress against the plan rather than planning future work.

The Agile Enablement Workshop provides a collaborative environment where teams and stakeholders define critical agile artifacts, including the Definition of Ready. This definition specifies the criteria a user story or product backlog item must meet before work can begin, ensuring clarity and readiness.

The workshop facilitates alignment on quality standards, scope, and expectations, reducing ambiguity and improving flow through development cycles. By involving all key participants, the Definition of Ready is meaningful and practical, tailored to the project's specific context.

While starting up (A), kickoff (B), and initiation workshops (C) focus on project foundation and planning, they do not specifically focus on agile readiness criteria.

This workshop is essential for embedding agile practices within PRINCE2 governance and fostering effective delivery.