Team A is working on the second sprint of a product release Team B. which is an interdependent team located on the same floor requires extensive and frequent information to complete its sprint goal What should the agile team lead do?

Create a central repository for information, and provide access to team B

Use an information board that will be visible to an passing through the workspace

Email ail stakeholders with status updates

Provide team B with the information on an "as needed" basis

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed m a sprint What should the scrum master do?

Engage the team to determine the sprint velocity based on previous agile projects

Average the sprint velocity based on input from ream members

Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team

Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team.

During a review session an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet the most pressing needs and provide value What should the team have done to prevent this?

Worked on features rather than a set of components

Reprioritized requirements prior to committing to iteration work

Ensured that requirements remained stable during the iteration cycle

Had stakeholders focus on items created after the product backlog was initially built

Worked on features rather than a set of components

During project inception an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements design, and delivery plans What should the agile practitioner do?

Set expectations regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage

Provide all information requested by the stakeholder

Set expectations regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage

inform the stakeholder mat no detailed documents are provided using agile practices

Ask the team to supply the information 10 the stakeholder

During a project meeting a team is laced with a difficult decision After discussion and deliberation the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration How could (he project leader have avoided this?

Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven decision making

Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then tallowed up with that team member

Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making, then made a final decision on behalf of the team

Refrained from participating in the team's decision making process except to document and communicate results

A legal department representative contacts the scrum master because white the projects budget has been maintained it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope. What should the scrum master do?

Meet with the legal department to help them understand that the customer and the team are satisfied with the time and deliverables

Meet with the team to gam alignment with the legal department's need to stay within the contracted time and scope

Work with the customer to narrow me scope

Share the project's trajectory with the legal department

Meet with the legal department to help them understand that the customer and the team are satisfied with the time and deliverables

An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stones during a release planning session with the established team The executive sponsor asks the team when the features will he delivered What should the agile team do?

Consult historical data for project completion

Evaluate how much can be delivered based on the Scrum Master's estimation

identify a set of user stored based on the team's velocity

Consult historical data for project completion

During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stones into the iteration backlog What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?

Assign tasks to each team member

Outing a review session a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work. However the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete What should be done with this story?

Mark it as complete, since the team completed the scope of work

Mark it as incomplete and prioritize it for the next sprint

Mark it as complete, since the product owner has the final say

Discard it and create a new story for the remaining scope of work

Mark it as complete, since the team completed the scope of work

The customer needs assistance m determining the efficiency of a set of process activities within the solution. What should the agile team do?

Discuss the performance of the solution at the next sprint review

Discuss the efficiency at the next iteration retrospective

Review the process value stream to determine potential improvements

Review the value the customer receives from the user story to determine backlog priority

Discuss the performance of the solution at the next sprint review

Outing planning for the next iteration an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered. How should an agile practitioner work with the team to help identity the iteration's remaining scope?

Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items

Convince the learn to stop planning and keep the size small

identify the technically minimal and achievable tasks

Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items

Select some of the smallest items from the backlog

A technical problem arises that win likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint What should the scrum master do?

Ask the team to collaboratively work out a solution

Consider adding a story to the next sprint to seek resolution

immediately solve the problem on behalf of the team

Ask the team to collaboratively work out a solution

Engage a technical manager to assist With finding a solution

Exhibit: Based on the backlog metrics in the chart, what can explain the Jump in points at the end of iteration 4?

The team learned that the product owner needed to increase the output in the next release

The team neglected to account for support and maintenance costs associated with other supported products

The team discovered that previously accepted work could be greatly improved and added story points associated with that work

The team realized that some stories were underestimated relative to other stones and reestimated as needed

The team learned that the product owner needed to increase the output in the next release

A product owner new to the role is very enthusiastic about an agile protect with an energetic team.What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?

Hold a meeting with the team and the product owner to develop the team charter, working agreement, guiding principles and product vision

Ask the product owner to create the project vision and charter and then discuss the guiding principles with the team

Hold a meeting during which the team can present the protect charter, high-level project plan and team values to the product owner

Send the product owner to formal product-owner training where the product owner can learn how to create a product vision

A development team and product owner disagree on a user story m the product backlog What should the agile practitioner do?

Facilitate a conversation about the user story between the development learn and the product owner

Have the development team follow the product owner's direction

Openly challenge the product owner m an effort to poke holes m their approach

Facilitate a conversation about the user story between the development learn and the product owner

Serve as a nonpartisan evaluator of each option and provide direction to the development team and product owner

A learn using Kanban identifies mat their cycle time has significant variation After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the stones' varying sizes and risks What should the team do?

Set a policy lo break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP

Reduce work in progress (W1P) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories

Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stones

Set a policy lo break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP

Create a dedicated overflow swimlane on the Kanban board for stones that are loo large

During a planning session, four out of five team members vole to include eight story points m a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points How should this be handled7

The story should be assigned points after a discussion with the fifth team member to see if a consensus can be reached

The story should be assigned eight story points as per the majority vote.

The story should be added to the backlog and reassessed later

The story should be assigned points after a discussion with the fifth team member to see if a consensus can be reached

The decision for the number of story points should be made by the customer

Two similar stories A and B. are estimated at 3 story points Story C. is estimated a( 8 points Alter an iteration in which A and C were completed it is found that story A took much longer than story C.What should the agile practitioner do?

Reestimate all stories including values for A B and C

Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate

Add points to story B's iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points

Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate

Reestimate all stories including values for A B and C

An agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released What should the agile team do?

Continuously work with the product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews

Demand frequent product reviews by the product owner

Continuously work with the product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews

Have the product owner provide detailed requirement specifications to ensure the proper features are delivered

During the planning session ensure the team is committed to deliver within the specifications

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects. What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices

invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups

invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives

Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives

Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices

A projects first iteration contains item

Defer starting the design of item B until the second iteration is being planned

and its second iteration contains item B. The first iteration is behind schedule which will impact the second iteration Since items A and B are similar a team member suggests beginning the design of item B. What should the agile practitioner do?

Defer starting the design of item B until the second iteration is being planned

Proceed with the design of item B, since it will hasten the second iteration

Escalate the issue to me customer and obtain their approval before starting the design of item B

Log the issue in the risk register and request change control board (CCB) approval

More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting. What should the scrum master do?

Schedule a story grooming session with the product owner before sprint planning

Email the product owner requesting detailed story specifications and wait for a response

Gather the details from the team members before sprint planning

Schedule a story grooming session with the product owner before sprint planning

Conduct a planning poker session with the team

A member of the development team is working on a prioritized non-functional requirement involving integrating with a 3rd party system This integration has not been done before on the project.What should the project leader suggest?

Develop and document a detailed architectural design peer review with the development team, and implement/test

Develop the functional requirements of the solution first before any non-functional requirement, as they provide more customer value.

Discuss the integration requirement with the product owner and negotiate it to be lower on the backlog to focus on the minimal marketable feature

Develop and test the implementation approach and demonstrate it at the next sprint review to collect feedback.

During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds.The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.What should have been done to avoid this?

A comprehensive user story with all non-functional requirements should have been created.

Non-functional requirements should have been added to the acceptance criteria

Non-functional requirements should have been added to the definition of done

A team review of the scope of work should have been conducted

What should a learn do when they complete ail sprint goals earlier than expected?

Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work

Begin working on an item in the backlog

Ask the scrum master to select an item from the backlog on which to work

Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work

Jointly decide with the scrum master on an item from the backlog on which to work

What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks'?

Move the task to another team member who has spare capacity in the sprint

Privately offer the team member encouragement to meet task commitments

A company has decided to combine Iwo similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing it's teams.What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage

Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and capitalize on synergies

After grouping individuals by role multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each role

Features should be prioritized and then teams should be orgainzed around those priorities

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.What should the project leader do?

Encourage all feedback, then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints

Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request

Limit the scope of the feedback to only those changes that the team can feasibly accommodate

Encourage all feedback, then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints

Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate.

A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.What should the project leader do?

Re-establish the spike, encourage experimentation and collaborate with the team.

Assign the spike to another resource to continue research for the long-term solution

Re-establish the spike, encourage experimentation and collaborate with the team.

Stop experimentation and negotiate the short-term solution with the customer.

Schedule a root-cause analysis with the development team on the mam issues with the spike

An organization highly values security However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features. What should the team member do?

Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

Mention the idea at the next retrospective

Show the customer how much time and money would be saved.

Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

The product owner of an agile project is frustrated because the team is unable to deliver as many features as expected. The product owner asks the team to reduce test-automation levels, since the quality assurance team will test the product at project completion. The product owner expects that more features will be delivered in each iteration using this approach What should the agile practitioner do?

Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance each iteration's testautomation levels and reduce redundancy

Ask the opinion of key stakeholders and the client to ensure the correct approach is being used

Work with the team to use this approach and request a quality assurance iteration after every three iterations

Propose to completely eliminate test automation, since this is a quality assurance function

Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance each iteration's testautomation levels and reduce redundancy

When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents How should the agile practitioner address this concern?

Educate the QA manager that in agile, quality is integrated from the begining to end of the project.

Write backlog items that include QA as part of the description.

Ask for the current QA documents and incorporate them into the technical debt backlog.

Ask the product owner to write tests and QA controls into the acceptance criteria

An agile project leader notices that the team's velocity has decreased. In examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow to enter story statuses.What can happen as a result'

The team will be unable to understand the iteration's status

The team will be unable to judge the project design's validity.

The team cannot give accurate updates to management

Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively

A client slates that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?

Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements.

Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping

Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements.

Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality

Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance.

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