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A scrum team is working on an important project with a short deadline. To save time and reduce overhead, the product owner proposes that the regular sprint reviews should be cancelled and replaced with a review of each release according to the release plan.

What should the scrum master do?

A.

Review the release plan with the product owner and invite the stakeholders to a series of release reviews.

B.

Review the metrics and the process to determine where the overhead could be further reduced to speed up delivery.

C.

Explain to the product owner why the sprint reviews are now replaced by release reviews as inspect and adapt is a key principle in Scrum.

D.

Explain to the product owner that getting feedback early and often from stakeholders is important so necessary changes can be made quickly.

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.

Add a task to the product backlog to allow the team time to investigate and experiment prior to estimating.

B.

Add a task to the product backlog to allow the team to apply a wideband Delphi estimation technique.

C.

Add a task to the product backlog to allow the team to apply planning poker to estimate the effort.

D.

Add a task to the product backlog to allow the team to apply a three-point estimation technique.

During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?

A.

Rework the iteration scope to accommodate these requirements.

B.

Add these requirements into the product backlog for future consideration.

C.

Raise the discovery of these requirements as an issue, and escalate to management.

D.

Immediately start working on these requirements.

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?

A.

Include the issue in the risk log.

B.

Monitor the issue in a notation system.

C.

Ask the team member to take full ownership of the issue.

D.

Advise the team member to add the issue to the board.

A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?

A.

Create a time-boxed spike story to reduce the technical risk of the feature.

B.

Commence an iteration 0 for the customer and the team to investigate the feature.

C.

Facilitate the decomposition of the feature epic into more manageable user stories.

D.

Facilitate a just-in-time exploration of the functionality by the customer and the team.

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?

A.

High-risk features can be prioritized to fit into releases with less work in progress.

B.

Low-risk, low-value features can be prioritized and completed first.

C.

High-risk, low-value features can be evaluated by the team early in the release.

D.

The work in progress can be adjusted to get more reviews with high-risk features.

An organization is using a predictive approach to managing projects. The executives like to see more deliverables in a short time and require that the milestones be achieved on time.

What value can the organization gain by moving to an iterative approach?

A.

New tools that deliver iterative and incremental work

B.

A more predictable delivery schedule and better quality

C.

Higher levels of activity-based planning and user histories

D.

Increased focus on the value and benefits delivered

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?

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Create an issue on the backlog to investigate the root cause and assign a team resource to resolve the issue immediately.

B.

Request increased velocity from the development team to clear off some defects and stay on track with the current iteration's work.

C.

Ask the team to determine how to adapt to this increase in the next retrospective.

D.

Stop work on in-progress user stories to clear defects from the product owner and increase velocity on defect resolution.

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?

A.

Cross-train some members in the automation framework to broaden their capacity with that skill

B.

Ask the product owner to add team members to boost this particular skill set

C.

Send a member to automation framework training when funds are available

D.

Avoid using test automation by swarming on the testing tasks and using manual testing