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?
An organization strives hard to accelerate value delivery by improving product design, development, and transition activities. What ways of working should the organization discontinue to become an effective player?
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?
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?
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?
What should a scrum master do when an agile team member is behind on their tasks?
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).
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?
A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?
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 learn has only one database administrator with the necessary knowledge of database-related tasks. The project manager identifies the risk that if this person leaves, team velocity will significantly decrease.
What should the agile coach do?
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?
Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner 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?
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 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?
An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?
A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.
What should the scrum master do?
A new project starts and team members are pooled together to execute it. The team works together and moves from the forming stage into the storming stage. However, potentially destructive conflicts are now arising.
What should the agile coach do to develop members into a high-performance team?
During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?
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?
The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?
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?
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?
An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?
An executive requests information regarding a sprint status. What action should the product owner take?
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?
An agile team is having difficulties in obtaining the participation of a true user to be a part of their team. In the absence of a true user, the development manager steps in to act as a proxy for the user.
What can the agile team do to improve value delivery in the absence of a true user?
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?
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 coach is guiding a team across multiple locations. They need a united communication approach that involves task-oriented communications and discussion boards with effectiveness.
Which method of communication would be most effective?
During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?
As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?
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 behavior does this describe?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?
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?
Part way through a project, several team members are in conflict over whether or not a deliverable has been properly completed. How should the agile leader reduce this conflict?
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?
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 be delivered.
What should the agile team do?
In a scrum team, who should be responsible for the budget and release plans?
The vice president (VP) of an organization has been asked by the chief information officer (CIO) to have their teams to embrace an agile approach to projects. The VP, however, often insists teams use a more predictive approach to project management which allows the project managers to do what they like.
How should an agile team member coach the VP and teams be more effective?
During a team meeting members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks which has lowered motivation. What should the agile practitioner do?
An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies How does this benefit the team?
During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.
How can the project team achieve this?
A large project team is assigned to a complex technical project with many interdependent epics. The team starts to experience problems in the second sprint as the technical leads are independently unable to determine the needed solutions.
What should the project lead do to help the team?
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 key stakeholder feels they do not understand the project at a comprehensive level. What should the agile practitioner do?
There is a debate within the organization on whether projects need to be agile or waterfall. Some agile terms and principles are understood differently by the key stakeholders and this delays the decision-making process.
How should the scrum master proceed?
When a team member encounters an issue in an agile environment, what should they do?
During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?
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?
The transition of a monthly news publication from paper to digital is planned to start in the next few weeks. There is a debate between the product owner and the development team about the initial features to be made available and the first five stages of implementation.
What should the scrum master do to address this situation?
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?
DRAG DROP
All the developers on a project team are working offshore in a different time zone, resulting in many issues. Match the issues to the agile practitioner's recommendations for resolutions below. (Drag the Problems/Issues on the left to the box in the center, corresponding to the correct Recommendations for Resolution on the right)
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 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?
An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?
A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?
The team is working to build a new Al model that will summarize and create presentation materials for executive leaders from external and internal content. The team believes there is value in increasing the scope of work as it will benefit the organization.
Which two actions should the product owner take first? (Choose two.)
An agile team wants to collectively determine a project's size. What will the team be doing if they use the planning poker technique to accomplish this?
A technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint What should the scrum master do?
Several new stakeholders are concerned about being asked to review a product demo before it is complete. How should the agile coach explain to the stakeholders the value of working this way?
How can the scrum master respond to a stakeholder who suggests using velocity as a metric to measure team efficiency in an agile project?
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?
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?
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 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?
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 project is starting and the type of work is complex and suitable for agile in assessing the team members, it appears that co-location would be a challenge.
What should the agile practitioner do?
During a recent sprint review meeting with stakeholders, the product owner received detailed feedback indicating the critical changes needed for upgrading the legacy system to better align with the latest technologies and user needs. How should the product owner help ensure the product backlog is effectively managed, while helping the team remain focused? (Refer to the Product Backlog Exhibit)
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 company has decided to use an agile delivery method for launching a new product to improve the customer checkout experience. How should the project manager ensure the experienced predictive delivery teams are capable of adopting the agile model?
An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.
What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?
During a project's last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root-cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.
What should the agile practitioner do?
During a review close to a product release, the customer spotted several features that will need to be changed. What caused this to happen?
How should an agile project leader interact with the product owner?
The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.
What should be done to address the issue?
What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?
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?
An agile team is struggling to achieve their goal during the first release due to an unstable environment beyond the authority of the product owner. Close to the end of the current sprint, the release manager resigns and a new person takes over.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team is struggling to achieve their goal during the first release due to an unstable environment beyond the authority of the product owner. Close to the end of the current sprint, the release manager resigns and a new person takes over.
What should the scrum master do?
A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. 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?
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?
Two similar stories A and B are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is 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?
What do the principles of Extreme Programming (XP) include?
One of the overseas stakeholders on an agile project has not been actively involved in the project's development. What would be the first step to reengage the stakeholder?
A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog What should the agile practitioner do?
Early in a project stakeholder analysis is performed: however, an organizational restructure redefines key roles What should the project team 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?
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?
Case Study
An agile project lead for a company is leading a sales team who has committed to delivering new product functionality to the customer at the end of five sprints. The agile project lead performed initial planning with the team and with the team's support has committed to the scope and deadline.
Check in with the project in three stages to answer the associated questions.
How do two additional features and more story points added by the product owner impact the team's progress and ability to complete work within the iteration, considering the burndown rate of the team has not changed? (Refer to the Case Study and End of Sprint 3 Exhibit)
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 manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.
Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to
the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)
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 obtains customer confirmation on product requirements and provides them to the team. After explaining the user stories, the product owner receives agreement for acceptance from the team. What should the team do next?
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?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
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?
A seven-member agile team's composition vanes 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?
Several team members have complained to senior management about their scrum master's processes. What should the scrum master do to address the team's process concerns?
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?
An infrastructure team had to revamp so downstream channels could consume data from the data lake, thereby improving operational efficiency for the end customers. Which primary components should the product manager consider while plotting performance and dependencies on the product roadmap?
A diverse team can sometimes create misunderstandings and conflict, leading team members to isolate. How can an agile project manager promote effective communication and collaboration among team members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives?
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?
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?
An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project What should the practitioner 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?
The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?
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?
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 facilitator is helping a team. The team is taking too long in each daily coordination meeting, and the facilitator is beginning to view the time as unproductive.
What should the agile facilitator do to help the team?
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?
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?
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 newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future Over time what will be the result of this approach?
An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?
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?
During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories What should the scrum master do?
If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?
The project manager has requested that the customer participate in the requirements gathering session for the next release. A conflict comes up regarding the requirements between the customer and team.
What should the project manager do?
The project lead of a newly created agile project delivery team realizes that there are gaps in the knowledge of some team members. The lack of specific skills will add risk to the project delivery if the project becomes too dependent on specific resources for complete delivery.
What should the project lead do to address the gaps and develop a high-performing team?
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?
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?
Based on the burndown chart, what is the iteration's status?
An agile project manager observes that the Scrum team is falling behind on the completion of a particular sprint. What should the agile project manager do?
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?
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 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?
During the advanced stages of implementing a complex design, an agile practitioner realizes that the architecture is not scalable for user requirements. The architect suggests a workaround that is minimally adequate but may cause some performance issues.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A new software development team has just been formed. 5 sprints have passed and the team is now familiar with their way of working. In the 6th sprint, the scrum master notices the team members arguing about the technical design of an upcoming new feature during a backlogrefinement meeting. After the refinement meeting, the scrum master notices team members talking about the topic informally and taking sides. There is noticeable tension among the team.
How should the scrum master help the team to resolve the issue?
How can an agile project manager ensure that all stakeholders have a clear understanding of the release plan by the end of a release planning meeting? (Choose two.)
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?
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 agile lead is told by executive leadership that the team needs to work faster because the release date has been moved up three months. The agile lead communicates the updated timeline to the team. One of the junior team members objects and feels the timeline is unrealistic.
What should the junior team member do?
A servant leader is leading a high-visibility project to deliver a new product. The servant leader has been able to build a cross-functional team and create a team space where the team is collocated. The servant leader started receiving frequent visits from a company director, who continually asks a specific team member questions about project progress. The conversations are distracting the team from their goal.
What should the servant 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?
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 product owner is responsible for a new product. The internal customer questions using an agile approach because they need a product that works without any bugs or missing features once it is launched.
What should the product owner do?
Some members of an agile project team work remotely, so it is difficult to have regular face-to-face backlog grooming sessions. How should the agile practitioner ensure that the team is able to reduce miscommunication and rework in this environment?
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.
Rapid feedback: Getting feedback quickly from customers or stakeholders to ensure that the development process is on track.
Assume simplicity: Focusing on simplicity in the design and code to avoid overengineering and to ensure the software is easy to understand and modify.
Incremental change: Delivering software in small, manageable increments that can be easily adjusted based on feedback.
Embrace change: Being flexible and adaptable, especially in response to new requirements or changes in technology or business needs.
Quality work: Ensuring high-quality software by emphasizing practices such as automated testing, continuous integration, and refactoring.
Accessibility – color blind (4 story points)
Increase security (21 story points)
Add AI chatbot (5 story points)
MVP Completion: The risk register mentions a burn reduction for sprints 4-6 due to holiday schedules.
If the burn rate is consistent after sprint 6, the MVP will be completed by sprint 9.
The entire backlog is projected to complete by sprint 16 assuming no further deviations.