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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?

Correct Answer: Begin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation

Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint's goals. What should the scrum master do next?

Correct Answer: Have the sprint proceed as planned

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

Correct Answer: Meet with the customer

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?

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

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?

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

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed. What was the determining factor?

Correct Answer: Minimum marketable features

What should a scrum master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?

Correct Answer: Ask the team for suggestions

A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate. What should be the agile project leader do?

Correct Answer: Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued, and demonstrate this at the next meeting

During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories. What should the scrum master do?

Correct Answer: Work with the product owner to add a spike to the next sprint to identify a solution

A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan. What should be the proper response?

Correct Answer: The customer changed requirements

Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?

Correct Answer: Assume the team member's tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner

An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress. What should the agile practitioner do?

Correct Answer: Post a project board in an area where all can view it

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

Correct Answer: Features should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities

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

Correct Answer: Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features. What should the product owner do?

Correct Answer: Determine the required tasks for implementing the high-level features

An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project. What should the practitioner do?

Correct Answer: Log technical debt as an impediment

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?

Correct Answer: In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information

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?

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

How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

Correct Answer: Facilitate a product development roadmap workshop

What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?

Correct Answer: Obtain agreement from the product owner on business requirements

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

Correct Answer: The team realized that some stories were underestimated relative to other stories and re-estimated as needed

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

Correct Answer: Ask the team to collaboratively work out a solution

How should an agile project leader interact with the product owner?

Correct Answer: Ensure the they attend regular sprint meetings to provide product-feature feedback

Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled. What should the team have done to avoid this?

Correct Answer: Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders

A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations. What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?

Correct Answer: Clear definition of done and regular demos

A team member on a scrum project previously provided support to another application. Due to this with that application, the team member's former supervisor continues assigning them tasks related to that project. The new project's scrum master includes these issues in the risk register. What should the scrum master do next?

Correct Answer: Ensure that the threats and risks are communicated and addressed

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?

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

A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint. What should they do?

Correct Answer: Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges

The team is refining user stories during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details. What should the agile practitioner do?

Correct Answer: Ensure the acceptance criteria includes testing scenarios, so the team can do through testing

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what should an agile team defer work?

Correct Answer: Low-risk and low-value

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?

Correct Answer: Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team

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

Correct Answer: Discuss the efficiency at the next iteration retrospective

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team. Many team members have worked together on this product for several years. During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time. What type of behaviour does this describe?

Correct Answer: Passive-aggressive

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?

Correct Answer: Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively

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

Correct Answer: Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, estimated at 8 points. After 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?

Correct Answer: Re-estimate all stories including values for A, B and C

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

Correct Answer: Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this. What should the team do next?

Correct Answer: Add risk mitigation tasks to the backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints

What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?

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

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

Correct Answer: Average the sprint velocity based on input from team members

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to complete in the market place. What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

Correct Answer: Fishbone-diagram

Toward the end of a project, the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to a critical feature not functioning as expected. What should the product owner do?

Correct Answer: Review possible options and make an informed decision to cut losses based on delivered business value

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?

Correct Answer: Meet with the team to discuss the issue and identify specific actions to reduce or eliminate the issue

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI. What should the team do?

Correct Answer: Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan

During 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 identify the iteration's remaining scope?

Correct Answer: Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items

During a project meeting, a team is faced 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 the project leader have avoided this?

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

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?

Correct Answer: Encourage the product owner and team to reprioritize the features and select ones which can be delivered without any dependencies

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?

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

An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?

Correct Answer: Amount of work that can be accomplished by the entire team

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