A new stakeholder has recently joined a project. During a meeting with the scrum master, the new stakeholder tries to understand the status of the project and the remaining tasks for completion.
How should the scrum master inform the new stakeholder?
Over the last two sprints, a number of potential problems have threatened the team's ability to hit the targeted release date. What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile team is in their 2nd iteration planning session. During the session, they are debating on whether regression and integration testing should be part of every iteration or part of the hardening iteration.
What should the agile lead recommend?
During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?
A senior executive contacted an agile lead about starting an agile project to solve a problem for the human resources (HR) department of a company. The project idea is not clear and no backlog has been developed.
How should the agile lead start the project?
During refinement, the team tester has a question about part of the acceptance criteria for a given user story. Who should clarify the acceptance criteria?
During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.
What should the agile coach do?
An agile team's client has been asked to expedite the delivery of the next release. By delivering one month early, the company can generate USS40.000 more than expected for the quarter. What should the agile team do?
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?
Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO):
Customer: I am requesting a calendar feature for scheduling and reminding of upcoming releases that we can manage. We also need the calendar to indicate quarterly metrics deadlines, code freeze dates for financial close, and things like that.
PO: My understanding is that this is for tracking project deadlines. Would you need to see the project deadlines on your phone calendar?
Customer: Yes. I need to see a single snapshot on my phone. So, is it possible for me to connect my phone to this calendar app?
PO: Let me write up the requirements and get the development team on board with the deadlines. What phone do you own?
Customer: I own an Android phone, but I also need integration with the Apple phones.
Identify three minimum viable product (MVP) items. (Refer to Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO). Choose three.)
A team worked with a customer to estimate all user stories for the must have features. During release planning sessions, the customer indicated they prefer 3-week iterations that begin on Thursdays and end on Wednesdays. The team spent several days determining which stories should be developed for iteration 0 and understanding the customer’s priorities for the remainingstories. The project sponsor attends the Friday meeting and requests a high-level estimate of when they can invite the chief executive officer (CEO) to a demonstration of the minimum viable product (MVP).
What should the team tell the sponsor at this point in the planning process?
A new agile project leader habitually becomes involved in the work from a support perspective and uses information radiators to ensure that all actions to remove impediments are visible to the team. What is the agile project leader doing?
A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?
The productivity of an agile team has fallen significantly in the last sprint. The team members have not mentioned any impediments but seem to be fatigued.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.
What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?
HOTSPOT
Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility). Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what? (Select answer from dropdown)
An executive notices a kanban board in a highly visible location and expresses concerns to the project manager that too many people will see it. What should the project manager do?
The team is aware that they will need to integrate a new component to their solution in the next few weeks. The team does not have any experience with this component.
What should the team do next?
A project was delivered in a foreign country for a big customer, but there are a lot of complaints about the way the functionality was implemented. Now there is a new project to fix the defects of the first one.
What strategy should be used to deliver it successfully?
The team is refining user stones during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details What should the agile practitioner do?
Two team members are working together to deliver an asset management tool. The code delivered by team member A during this sprint is not aligning with the specifications written by team member B. Both team members do not seem to agree on the look and feel of some functionality.
What should the scrum master do in this situation?
A project team member expresses frustration about the length of time it takes to make decisions for a complex project. Approvals needs to happen at many levels in the company.
What should the team lead do to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions?
A new project is scheduled to begin next month. The project manager has had plenty of time to review and plan all the activities and has adopted the best approach for the project and the organization.
Which action did the project manager most likely take when choosing the approach?
A company is planning to launch a new service to improve the customer checkout experience. What should the project manager do to meet the objective of reducing time to market to gain a competitive advantage in the industry?
An agile team has defined their definition of done (DoD) for a sprint. However, during the demo, the product owner is not sure if a user story can be marked as done.
Select the most appropriate sequence of activities that would need to be completed to meet a well-defined, mature definition of done (DoD).
A project team's standups often run over the allotted time as members attempt to resolve issues. With a large team, this is leading to productivity impacts and bringing complaints from some members that the meetings are wasting their time when they are not directly involved in an issue’s resolution.
How can the project leader help to manage the team's time?
The team is considering committing to 44 story points for the upcoming sprint. Based on the
velocity chart, what advice should the scrum master offer the team?
How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
During an executive review, a scrum master uses a burndown chart to demonstrate team deliverables through time. The scrum master declared that velocity increased from 27 to 35 over the last 3 sprints, but one of the executives asks to clarify the importance of these metrics.
How should the scrum master respond?
An agile team had unexpected technical problems in a project and was not able to complete the deliverables on time. During the retrospective meeting, the team openly discussed the causes for these issues and what can be done to avoid similar situations in the future.
What agile values and principles did the team demonstrate?
A client needs to release their product to market earlier than planned. They need to start receiving the expected revenue, according to their financial forecast, which will require completing the work left on all user stories in the backlog.
What should the project lead do to accommodate this request?
Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?
An agile team is struggling with an issue. A team member mentions that another team had a similar issue that was resolved, but lessons learned documents are unavailable.
What should the agile practitioner do?
One of the main stakeholders of a project is new to Scrum. The stakeholder asks what to expect in the sprint retrospective.
How should the product owner respond?
A Scrum team has worked hard to reach their sprint goal, but impediments have prevented them from succeeding. The team needed help from a specialist on another team, but the specialist was on a 2-week vacation.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team has received several new features to be added to the product backlog. The team is struggling to provide a reasonable estimate for feature development due to a lack of experience.
How should an experienced agile practitioner assist the team?
A client has provided their requirements and deadline to the project team. The requirements are confusing, and the team is frustrated.
What should the team's servant leader do?
The initial roadmap and release dates for an agile project were set based on data from similar projects and some expert opinions. Halfway through the project, however, the team’s estimates are different. Based on the team’s velocity, two more iterations were necessary to accomplish the initial scope.
How should the agile lead explain the difference to the project sponsor?
During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked: "How do you ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders' priorities?"
How should the candidate respond?
After seeing the planned features (or an upcoming release, a customer notes that a vitally important and complex one is missing. The team estimates that this feature significantly exceeds its average velocity. How can this issue be resolved?
A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.
What should the agile facilitator do?
An agile team has started to worry because lately they have seen an increase in the number of issues. There seems to be a large variance in the quality of the work items delivered. The team now realizes that a shared understanding of quality may not exist among team members.
What should the team do?
An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.
What should the agile coach do?
A product that recently went to market is receiving a great deal of attention from upper management who expresses interest by directly emailing and calling the developer team. The team expresses frustration during a standup.
What should the Scrum Master do?
A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concerns resurface. What should the team have done to improve retrospective outcomes?
On a complex project with a large degree of uncertainty, the team’s velocity is declining. Upon testing, it is discovered that many of the work items reported as complete are not meeting the stakeholders requirements.
Which of the following could help resolve the incomplete work?
An agile team is working on the first sprint, and have already planned the second and third sprints. However, market conditions now require a change to the features. What should the product owner do?
A project team is currently working on sprint seven of a release that is estimated to require twelve sprints to complete. The team has reviewed the stories for this sprint and discovered that it will require rework from previous sprints.
What should the scrum master do?
A project team is currently working on sprint seven of a release that is estimated to require twelve sprints to complete. The team has reviewed the stories for this sprint and discovered that it will require rework from previous sprints.
What should the scrum master do?
A project manager noticed that a team member had been a consistently high performer until a few months ago. Recently, the team member seems distracted and is not performing well.
How should the project manager handle a review with the team member?
An agile practitioner is in the process of refining requirements. The requirements keep changing based upon with whom the agile practitioner speaks.
What should the agile practitioner do in this situation?
A scrum master assumes a project that is essential to organizational growth. The project is expected to be in production for three years. What should the scrum master do first?
Several team members are new to agile and there is a lot of confusion. It seems everyone is coming in with different experiences and following their own agendas. The scrum master decided to hold a presentation on core agile principles and values.
What should the scrum master emphasize to the team during the presentation?
A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.
What agile tools can help the team address these issues?
A scrum master is working with a team on a complex software project that is scheduled to run for 2 years with a series of product releases. The scrum master is responsible for planning the project for the next 6 months and has advised planning the project up front.
What should the scrum master do?
During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog. What should the team do?
A high-profile project team is struggling to meet planned velocity. During a retrospective, the team agreed that their lack of experience in the technology resulted in an excess of rework.
What should be done to resolve this challenge?
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?
While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?
Midway through a project the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project
What should the product owner do next?
A software team is developing a product in an environment with increased uncertainty. Although there is a clear vision of the goals to be achieved, the product owner is not fully certain about how some of the product features should work.
How should the product owner address this situation?
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?
What is a specific development practice that has been effective in implementing disciplined DevOps?
A project team has been working on a new application. The application is technically challenging, because the team is using new technology unknown to the development team and business requirements are unclear. The product owner has been working closely with the stakeholders to ensure alignment with requirements and other issues. The agile lead is working with the team and product owner on the product backlog.
What is the role of the team?
A new product owner needs to manage the backlog of a high-visibility fast-moving project that is consuming a considerable amount of time What should the product owner do?
An agile coach advised a project manager to continuously improve their ability to support their team and remove any obstacles in the project's way. What role is the agile coach advising to the project manager to take on?
More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting What should the scrum master do?
A member of a cross-functional project team is not able to attend regular status meetings and provide progress updates, which is impacting the productivity of the entire team. What should the product owner do to improve productivity?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
Members of an agile team are complaining that user stories are too large, taking multiple sprints to complete them. They say this way of working is becoming difficult to handle and it has been challenging to map relationships between stories. This situation is affecting the value delivery for the product owner.
What should the scrum master do to handle this situation?
A product's scope and acceptance criteria have been defined, and the product is planned for release at the end of the next quarter. What should the project team do next?
An agile project was underway for two months and delivered the expected value to the stakeholders. However, during a sprint review, a team member complained that the product owner constantly changes requirements and the member feels that this is blocking the team’s performance.
How can the scrum master handle this situation?
During a current sprint, a team member asks permission from the scrum master to investigate an alternative design approach What should the scrum master do?
During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?
A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints. What should the Scrum Master do?
The first project vision statement meeting for a newly formed team did not achieve its outcome. Lack of participation combined with conflicting views of those who participated led to disagreement on how to proceed.
How can the team improve their collaboration?
An agile coach is facing a dilemma: On one hand, there is a requirement that is vital and will consume all capacity of the team. On the other hand, there are some chore-related tasks that will improve the team's ability to produce results. The team insists on implementing these tasks since they will increase efficiency.
What should the agile coach do?
A project's first iteration contains item A 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?
Halfway through the execution of an agile project, a retrospective meeting is held. One of the team members believes that the actual time and cost to complete the work has consistently been greater than what was originally estimated.
Which of the following activities should be performed next?
A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.
What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?
During a coaching session, an agile project manager discussed embracing communication to keep all stakeholders aligned. The agile project manager recently had a discussion with their team and decided to display a product roadmap.
What is the agile project manager trying to show?
The product owner working on an agile software development project has brought all the Scrum team members together for the first sprint planning meeting. The team has read the user stories and has provided estimates to complete these user stories. The product owner plans to empower the team to get the work done.
What is this an example of?
A scrum master has a team of six members. The team complains they are losing time because they are attending meetings for which they see no value.
What should the scrum master do?
The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration.
What must the agile practitioner do?
An agile team is building a training safety video based on current government regulations. The agile coach knows the regulations are likely to change before the release date.
How should the agile coach address this change?
A scrum master is part of a team that has just agreed on the project scope and deliverables for a global, multilingual manufacturing company that has many staff members moving between locations. The team consists of 20 people and the budget is US$5 million. The kickoff meeting is scheduled for the following month.
What should the scrum master do as a first step?
A team member on a new scrum project previously provided support to another application Due to issues with that application, the team member's former supervisor continues assigning them tasks related to that project. The new project's scrum master includes this issue in the risk register.
What should the scrum master do next?
During an iteration planning meeting, the team suggests changes to add product value that will require extra work and impact the schedule. What should the agile project leader do?
A product owner wants to create a release plan given the team is working in a chaotic environment. They want to set expectations about what is likely to be developed and in what timeframe for some of the stakeholders.
What should the product owner include in the release plan to achieve this?
A senior manager has asked an agile team to ensure that the data for the burndown charts are updated in real-time. However, the team is not comfortable with this approach as they think this is not productive.
What should the scrum master do?
A project team developer has been involved in a large corporate initiative that has negatively impacted team productivity on another project to which they have been assigned. How should the developer have handled this situation?
A product owner adds user stories to the backlog on a daily basis. The stories are vague requests, and the product owner expects the details to be clarified once the team works on the prioritization list.
How should the team members address this challenge so that the prioritization meeting does not become a brainstorming session?
A product owner new to the role is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?
A software company is developing an accounting software system to market to customers. The team has been working on the project for six weeks and has great velocity. One of the major stakeholders approached the scrum master and asked for a bi-weekly status report because they feel they are not being properly updated.
How should the scrum master respond to this request?
A Inform the stakeholder that all updates are provided in the sprint review sessions and encourage them to attend
B. Create and update bi-weekly project status reports for the stakeholder who requested the report.
C. Escalate this to the stakeholder's supervisor because this is an unreasonable request.
D. Ignore the stakeholder's request and continue working on the project as they have been for the past six weeks.
An agile team has been given a complex project with a basic set of requirements which need further elaboration and review. How should the team iteratively build out the backlog of requirements with the stakeholders?
New stakeholders are joining a project team where the agile coach will educate them about their roles and responsibilities. How should the stakeholders ensure their objectives are met by product delivery?
The lead developer informed the team that they have learned of some possible integration challenges in creating customer dashboards using the architecture the team has chosen. What should an agile practitioner do?
A project has several features that will deliver immediate customer value. The product owner needs to determine which features to include in the upcoming iteration.
What should the product owner have the customer review and approve?
A new agile team is forming to address a high-priority project. Team members are dispersed over a wide geographic area. The scrum master and the team are currently defining their working agreement.
What should be part of the working agreement for a dispersed team?
A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?
Agile team A struggles to deliver committed stories due to technical dependencies with team B. which continuously fails to meet its delivery commitments. What should the agile team lead do?
Midway through a sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?
A scrum master wants to encourage better collaboration within a collocated team and is coming up with a visualization method for the project. How could the scrum master promote transparency?
Iterations last between a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference for the shorter time. What is the goal for each iteration?
Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective.
What should the agile practitioner do?
As part of the organizational change, all project teams within the digital channel’s portfolio have been directed to move from 3-week iterations to 2-week iterations. The development team is frustrated as they think there will not be enough time to test. The product owner does not like this change as it will increase the number of ceremonies.
Which two actions should the scrum master take? (Choose two.)
Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity. What should the agile coach advise?
During a review close to a product release, the customer spotted several features that will need to be changed. What caused this to happen?
A product owner concludes that the majority of a project's value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?
An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time.
What should the agile project manager do?
An agile project manager is working on a project to develop a customer service website. The project manager is organizing a workshop to plan the next release: To add the feature of receiving and resolving customer complaints. Which two actions should the project manager ask the team members to take before the workshop? (Choose two.)
A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog What should the agile practitioner do?
While working on a sprint for a software development project, the team is unsure of how the feature should be designed. The project sponsor recommends developing a prototype of the user interface to discover more about this feature.
Why is the project sponsor making this suggestion?
An agile project manager has noticed their teams declining morale, mistrust, and isolation over the last 6 months of working on a project. What should the agile project manager do to enhance productivity and create a cohesive team culture?
A legal department representative contacts the scrum master because, while the project's budget has been maintained, it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope What should the scrum master do?
Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times.
Which practices should the team use?
As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?
An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.
What should the agile team do next?
The product owner is very concerned about work not being completed and tested before a hard release date. What can the agile team do to mitigate this risk?
What should a learn consider when calculating the effort needed to complete a product backlog?
During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization.
What should the project leader do?
An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to a very popular business Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance.
What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?
During the implementation of a story, a scrum team notifies the scrum master of a technical challenge that is causing a delay. What should the scrum master advise the team to do?
During sprints, the development team members are frequently invited to various meetings to provide technical opinions, consuming the team's working time and causing compliance issues. Which action should the scrum master take to address this situation?
An organization wants to execute a corporate website redesign project using Scrum. There is an experienced pool of agile team members from a previous project, as well as a pool of available internal team members with some Scrum background.
What should be considered when selecting the team?
During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?
An agile development team is working on a digital transformation project and is facing challenges in obtaining consistent feedback from stakeholders who are dispersed around the world. The product owner is under pressure as this lack of engagement has led to prolonged decision-making cycles and has adversely affected the outcomes of sprints.
How should the team improve stakeholder engagement to help ensure timely feedback and better decision-making? (Refer to Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid)
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
A project team tasked with delivering a solution with extremely aggressive timelines is facing an issue with meeting their sprint velocity targets. To address this issue and bring the project back on track, what action should the team take?
A new project has been approved and is critical for an organization. The project sponsor has a limited budget, and the deadline to have all requirements meet the definition of done (DoD) is short.
Which approach should the agile practitioner take to facilitate the project's success?
A development team is calculating the number of story points they have completed at the end of an iteration. Although quality assurance (QA) passed and successfully demonstrated one feature, it is not being included in the release package.
Should the team add the feature's story points to their burndown chart?
The agile coach of a development team uses a servant leadership approach. The team is starting the third iteration of an upgrade to a software product, and work is going slower than initially planned.
What should the coach do to help the team?
A global organization is migrating its IT infrastructure from traditional, physical assets to cloud-based assets. Agile concepts are new to the organization because it currently uses a predictive approach.
What should an agile coach do to facilitate a culture change to an agile approach?
A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint What should they do?
A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one. As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?
A project team realizes that an important task on the iteration backlog will take more time than originally estimated What should the project team do?
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Unit testing ensures the code works as expected.
Meeting the acceptance criteria ensures that the business needs are met.
Business testing and functional testing confirm the product works from both the business and technical perspectives.
Code merging ensures that the feature is integrated into the main branch.
Updating documentation ensures that the product is well-documented for future reference and use.