A Salesforce Administrator has initiated a deployment using a change set. the deployment has taken more time than usual. What is the potential reason for this?

Universal Containers is building a custom application on the Force.com platform. There is a budget and release date that has been set by the board of directors, but the application must meet the requirements that will be submitted and voted on by a public user community. What is the risk associated with the scenario?

Universal Containers CUC) is hiring offshore agile development teams to decrease costs and enhance UC's capability of delivering new features to its customers. However, the CTO Is not able to follow or measure the work of those teams.
What should an architect recommend to increase transparency?

The CEO at Universal Containers (UC) is receiving constant complaints from business stakeholders that the development teams are not frequently delivering value to the end-user. The CEO talked with the CTO, who argues the opposite, explaining that the development teams are delivering value every Sprint.
The architect suggests to the CTO to implement Kanban to solve this disagreement.
How can Kanban help clarify whether value is being delivered to the business?