GUIDEWIRE ASSOCIATE EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Development (Phases) - ✔✔1. Plan sprints
2. Build solution
a. Collaborate
b. Define
c. Develop
d. Test
3. Demonstrate results
4. Learn and devise
✔✔Stabilization (Phases) - ✔✔1. Regression Testing
2. System E2E testing
3. Model Office/UAT
4. GW Support Transition
5. Review and Approve
✔✔Deployment (phases) - ✔✔1. Migrate data
2. Pilot Deployment
3. Full Deployment
4. Organizational Change Management
✔✔Support and Success (Phases) - ✔✔1. Ongoing customer success program
2. Value realization
3. Business as usual
4. Maintenance upgrades
✔✔Conceptual Sprint plan - ✔✔High-level sprint plan outlined in an Excel template
✔✔Key Pre-Inception deliverables - ✔✔Business case completed
Inception logistics established
Inception workshops scheduled
Business resources trained
User stores mapped to business case
Project governance defined
Methodology aligned
Project tools identified
✔✔Key Inception deliverables - ✔✔Estimated user stories
Committed product backlog
Conceptual sprint plan
Infrastructure plan
Integration context diagram
Gap analysis
, High-level integration designs
Sandbox installed
Trained resources
✔✔Conceptual sprint plan - ✔✔the outcome on Inception
✔✔Product owner role - ✔✔Key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
Business authority to make decisions (can delegate to key SMEs)
Shares vision with the development team
Collaborates with the teams to develop and deliver the work
Defines requirements and answers the development team's questions promptly and with
authority
Responsible for signing off on user stories and defects
Does not write requirements or tests during development
DRIVES VALUE
✔✔QA Roles - ✔✔Execute tests and coordinates with Developers accordingly
✔✔Cross Functional team
Success factors - ✔✔Frequent communication
Co-located teams
Empowered decision making
Active business involvement
Leverage value and product alignment
✔✔What is a user story? - ✔✔Ex: as a <role>, I want to <action> so that <reason>
High-level requirements from a user's perspective
Often captured on index cards or sticky notes during early planning sessions
✔✔INVEST - ✔✔Invest in good stories
I - Independent
N - Negotiable
V - Valuable
E - Estimable
S - Small
T - Testable
✔✔Story elaboration goal is identifying value driven changes to ootb story, who are key
stakeholders? - ✔✔BA's, SME, PO's
✔✔What does it mean to elaborate a user story? - ✔✔Conversations occur between the
users and the team to ensure all requirements are understood
✔✔Elaboration session benefits - ✔✔Benefits:
Help the team better understand the requirements
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Development (Phases) - ✔✔1. Plan sprints
2. Build solution
a. Collaborate
b. Define
c. Develop
d. Test
3. Demonstrate results
4. Learn and devise
✔✔Stabilization (Phases) - ✔✔1. Regression Testing
2. System E2E testing
3. Model Office/UAT
4. GW Support Transition
5. Review and Approve
✔✔Deployment (phases) - ✔✔1. Migrate data
2. Pilot Deployment
3. Full Deployment
4. Organizational Change Management
✔✔Support and Success (Phases) - ✔✔1. Ongoing customer success program
2. Value realization
3. Business as usual
4. Maintenance upgrades
✔✔Conceptual Sprint plan - ✔✔High-level sprint plan outlined in an Excel template
✔✔Key Pre-Inception deliverables - ✔✔Business case completed
Inception logistics established
Inception workshops scheduled
Business resources trained
User stores mapped to business case
Project governance defined
Methodology aligned
Project tools identified
✔✔Key Inception deliverables - ✔✔Estimated user stories
Committed product backlog
Conceptual sprint plan
Infrastructure plan
Integration context diagram
Gap analysis
, High-level integration designs
Sandbox installed
Trained resources
✔✔Conceptual sprint plan - ✔✔the outcome on Inception
✔✔Product owner role - ✔✔Key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
Business authority to make decisions (can delegate to key SMEs)
Shares vision with the development team
Collaborates with the teams to develop and deliver the work
Defines requirements and answers the development team's questions promptly and with
authority
Responsible for signing off on user stories and defects
Does not write requirements or tests during development
DRIVES VALUE
✔✔QA Roles - ✔✔Execute tests and coordinates with Developers accordingly
✔✔Cross Functional team
Success factors - ✔✔Frequent communication
Co-located teams
Empowered decision making
Active business involvement
Leverage value and product alignment
✔✔What is a user story? - ✔✔Ex: as a <role>, I want to <action> so that <reason>
High-level requirements from a user's perspective
Often captured on index cards or sticky notes during early planning sessions
✔✔INVEST - ✔✔Invest in good stories
I - Independent
N - Negotiable
V - Valuable
E - Estimable
S - Small
T - Testable
✔✔Story elaboration goal is identifying value driven changes to ootb story, who are key
stakeholders? - ✔✔BA's, SME, PO's
✔✔What does it mean to elaborate a user story? - ✔✔Conversations occur between the
users and the team to ensure all requirements are understood
✔✔Elaboration session benefits - ✔✔Benefits:
Help the team better understand the requirements
