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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 project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional teams using an adaptive approach. Frequent communication among the team leads of these cross-functional teams is crucial for the project to stay on track and deliver value according to the project plan.
Which agile communication practice should the project manager implement to ensure the cross-functional teams interact frequently?
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?
During backlog refinement, the team uses an online planning poker tool for estimation. The junior developers change their number of story points after they see the estimations provided by the developers. The junior developers state that the reason for this is that they do not have enough experience and do not want to be blamed for sizing it wrong.
What should the scrum master do?
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 team has team members with varying technical skills. Due to recent events that adversely impacted customer satisfaction, management mandated that Kaizen should be given more focus to ensure the quality in product delivery.
Kaizen is a prime concept of which agile practices?
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?
Which of the following allows DevOps to enable and sustain a fast workflow from development into operations?
A newly formed team is struggling to work together and agree on how to complete tasks in the upcoming sprint. What should the scrum master do to support the team?
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).
After conducting the second retrospective with project stakeholders, the customer expresses frustration. The customer wants a more predictable roadmap for the delivery of features and functionalities.
How should the project manager respond to the customer?
After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met.
If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?
Project stakeholders are finding it difficult to know the real-time status of who has been assigned to various stories and the status of each work item. Which of the following should the agile project manager do?
A team member has asked a question about the responsibilities of the product manager, QA, and the team regarding quality. What should the agile project manager advise?
An agile team discovers a new risk and identifies that its impact may be severe. What should an agile practitioner recommend?
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?
A project team has been working on five data source integrations. They have allocated one tester for each data source. One of the testers is on emergency leave for personal reasons, so the project
deliverables could not be completed on time.
How should the project team improve during their retrospective for future implementations?
The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning lo gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?
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?
A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?
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?
In several recent agile team status meetings, there have been discussions about increases in costly bugs and late product deliveries, resulting in lower quality and higher costs. Team members feel they spend too much time in planning and process meetings, then feel rushed to complete their work.
How should the agile lead implement an effective and efficient solution?
An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?
During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer How should the team resolve this?
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 seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age. gender, culture, personality type, and professional background. When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?
What should a scrum master do when an agile team member is behind on their tasks?
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.)
A team is preparing to demonstrate new product capabilities to a leadership team. The demonstration will show working software and a listing of the projected value of the capabilities.
What should the team do to ensure the demonstration is successful?
Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.
What should the team do?
An agile team is planning the next iteration for a product release that has accumulated technical debt What should the team do?
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?
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?
A key resource is switching between projects to obtain more visibility and acclaim. However, project work has grown and become a burden.
What should the agile project leader do?
A business analyst has been assigned to optimize a process to deliver healthcare services to patients in a clinic. In creating a value stream map, what will the business analyst’s key observations include?
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?
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?
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 member of the development team displays disrespectful behavior and continuously argues with colleagues. This is negatively impacting team morale.
Which action should the scrum master take to resolve this situation?
A key stakeholder feels they do not understand the project at a comprehensive level. What should the agile practitioner do?
The team is derailed by a demand from a senior manager unrelated to the project. How does the agile coach help the team?
An agile team notices that the same problems continue to occur during multiple iterations Several team members have suggestions to fix the problem.
What is the proper agile approach to handle this?
An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports.
What should the project leader do?
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?
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 organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.
What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?
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?
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?
An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
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?
Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product's software While most stakeholders attended every sprint review they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project.
What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?
A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team 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?
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?
During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner acknowledges this as a risk. What should the product owner do now?
A customer and a product delivery team meet to discuss a product's attributes, goals expectations. hypothesis1 and high-level needs. What is a benefit of this meeting?
During a retrospective the agile practitioner discovers that a team member's process improvement idea has worsened the outcome What should the agile practitioner do?
During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.
What should the scrum master do now?
A project manager was assigned to lead the development of a new application for a company. The application will be widely used by all company employees around the world. During the firstmeeting with key project stakeholders, the project manager was asked to find a way to determinate all possible types of users who may interact with the application that is going to be developed.
What should the project manager do next?
During agile training, an aspiring scrum master with experience in predictive projects asks about the differences between the Kanban approach and the agile approach.
How should the agile trainer respond?
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 project team is working with an enterprise agile center of excellence (CoE) to transition to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Many of the team members are not familiar with the new methodology and are worried that it will lead to more work and scrutiny.
What should the agile team lead do to help ensure a smooth transition?
A new project is under way and the team is using the Kanban method. One of the team members raised a specific issue related to a programming language that the team member faced in previous projects.
What should the project leader do to handle the issue?
During a sprint review the product owner identifies a required improvement for a feature's user interface (UI) delivered during the sprint What should the product owner do next?
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?
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?
A Scrum Master would like to provide information to key stakeholders on the daily resource and project activities. Which tool should the Scrum Master use to provide these updates?
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 master of a team that is new to Scrum wants to share the purpose of the daily coordination meeting. What should the scrum master tell the team?
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?
An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?
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?
A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated.
What should the Scrum Master 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 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?
How should the project manager introduce the team, communicate the importance of the team charter, and help develop a high-performing team?
A project charter has been completed and is ready for approval. The project's goal and approach have been clearly determined and a list of generalized specialists has been set.
How should the project manager introduce the team, communicate the importance of the team charter, and help develop a high-performing team?
After three iterations, it is identified that a project's underlying security structure architecture is unstable. While there is a technical solution, all work to date is flawed. This will impact several future business service offerings.
What should the product owner do to resolve this?
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?
Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint goals What should the scrum master do next?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Following approval of a business case, a company will introduce a new mobile app for customers to place orders. Time to market is a key concern. The product has entered into the 3rd iteration, but the team is concerned because they feel the technical designs do not meet the agreed-on definition of done (DoD). An agile coach has been hired to help validate product delivery against business requirements.
What should the agile coach do?
A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While learn members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity becomes settled it is needless to keep track.
What should the agile coach tell the team?
A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan What should be the proper response?
During an iteration review, the agile team asserts that a product is complete because development and review were finished. The product owner disagrees, since the product has not been tested.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A client is pressed for time and wants to launch a product with three components as soon as possible to gain market share. An agile lead proposes the following agile strategy to gain time: Three teams will work on the design and development of each component. Once all three components are finished, they will be tested and integrated.
Is this agile strategy appropriate?
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 mature agile team welcomes a new member Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.
What should the agile project leader do?
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?
During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?
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?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
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?
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?
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?
A scrum master is 6 days into a 10-day iteration. A customer representative approaches the scrum master and asks whether they can access the latest update on the project.
Which action should the scrum master take?
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?
A development team determined the first release of a product should focus on delivering a minimally viable version of the solution. What is the most important reason the team decided to do this?
A team retrospective was going well until the team lead introduced the "define the next experiment" topic; then the discussion became an argument. A new team member feels strongly that the approach used on their previous team would improve this team's efficiency and effectiveness. The team lead is adamant that they remain with the current approach and the discussion dissolves into a circular argument.
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?
During a planning session, four out of five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points. How should this be handled?
How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?
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?
An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project What should the practitioner do?
An executive sponsor asks a team when a specific feature will be ready for release. A team member states the feature will be ready by the end of release 3 because it is not a core feature. The team member directs the sponsor to an information radiator, where the sponsor sees several notes grouped by release numbers and posted on the wall.
What is the sponsor looking at?
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?
In a project to develop a supply-and-demand scenario planning tool, the team aims to streamline development and rapidly deliver features. Which approach best supports quick feature delivery while maintaining quality? (Refer to An Excerpt from the Quality Management Plan)
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work.
What metrics should the team use to measure performance?
A software project is being implemented by a small, colocated team. What should the project manager do to keep the team focused and engaged with the high level of requirements?
How can a project team effectively work toward a common goal and communicate as they scale and expand to build a new business-critical platform, given that they have been responsible for a small customer-facing product with little complexity over the past 2 years?
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?
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?
An agile coach has been hired to improve the performance and quality of developed software. The coach performed an analysis of the software and discovered an excessive number of escaped defects, leading to external failures.
How can the agile coach effectively address and correct defects in the software development process while maintaining predictability and keeping workloads within capacity?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation to improve its market position. Management wants minimal overhead in connection with the agile initiative and wants the agile teams to control the work in process (WIP) and ensure that iterations do not result in waste.
Which approach should be used in this scenario?
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?
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 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?
Two teams have received project requirements and completed estimates. Team A estimates 420 story points for scope and 30 story points for velocity per sprint. Team B estimates 280 story points for scope and 20 story points for velocity per sprint. Both teams have same number of team members and have an assumed sprint duration of 2 weeks.
What can an agile practitioner conclude about team A and team B's estimates?
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?
A team is building a product in three-week iterations. During the last retrospective, it was identified that there was a 20 percent increase from previous iterations in the number of reported defects and change requests.
Since this is causing the product's value to decrease, what should the team do?
An organization wants to increase value delivery in its agile projects. What should the agile teams do?
A team lead reviews processes and identifies bottlenecks that prevent the teams from quickly delivering minimum viable products (MVPs). Which responsibility falls within the context of servant leadership?
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?
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?
When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?
In an adaptive environment, project managers use their skills and expertise to help the team adapt to changing circumstances and deliver to their stakeholders. While some agile practitioners may argue that the role of a project manager is not needed in self-organizing teams, pragmatic agile practitioners and organizations recognize that project managers can add benefit in many situations. The key difference is that their roles and responsibilities may look somewhat different in an adaptive environment.
What are some of the practices a project manager can bring to an adaptive environment?
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?
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?
During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.
What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?
During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.
What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?
An agile team is optimizing the workflow by investing in initiatives to identify and reduce unnecessary handovers and delays. What should the team do in this situation?
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?
During its first sprint, a new scrum team realizes that it has insufficient team members with test automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?
Throughout the project, an agile practitioner notices that one team member is becoming an emergent leader. What should an agile practitioner do?
An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action.
What should the team do?
An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints
What should the agile coach do in this situation?
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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.