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During a sprint demo, a business representative identifies missing requirements. The agile practitioner realizes that all key stakeholders were not included during requirements detailing.
What should the agile practitioner have done to avoid the situation?
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 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 customer has given a project team several requests for new features on a product. The customer is upset that the requests have been placed in the backlog and are not currently being worked on by the team.
What should the team do next?
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?
An agile team lead noticed their team’s velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.
What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?
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?
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 member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.
What should the agile team lead do?
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?
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?
When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?
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?
An agile practitioner is working on a project to migrate data from computer systems to another location. To accomplish this task, they need to run four activities sequentially that different teams are performing. The teams are migrating two systems per day, but the agile practitioner thinks that three systems should be done per day.
What can be done to improve process efficiency?
During the project initiation stage, a team has estimated story points for all user stories. When the project team explained the minimum marketable feature (MMF), however, they were not confident that the solution would actually work.
What can the team do to better manage this situation?
The agile team has failed to meet their iteration goal, and contention has developed between members. The agile leader would like to determine how to improve the team's productivity and morale.
How should the agile leader address this?
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?
While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up. The scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind Upon further discussion they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team members were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused a bottleneck.
What should the scrum team do?
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?
During a retrospective, a team member claims that a specific set of documentation that is continuously updated during iterations is not being used by any stakeholder. What should the team 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 is the disadvantage of using velocity as a measure of team efficiency in agile approaches?
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?
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?
An executive requests information regarding a sprint status. What action should the product owner take?
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?
What should a product owner do when a new stakeholder is complaining that they are not receiving the relevant financial data regarding the project.
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?
What is a specific development practice that has been effective in implementing disciplined DevOps?
During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of not finishing the project in time.
What should the product owner do to help the team?
During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?
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?
A development team has started working on a new service but is unsure if the service fits the customer's requirements. What should the product owner do to ensure that the service will benefit the customer?
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?
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 team developing application software is working in pairs. A project manager notices that important information is sometimes not shared among team members, leading to delays in the development process.
What should the project manager do to improve team performance and eliminate any communication impediments?
A For new pairs of developers based on the years of expertise and project management Knowledge
B. Use task boards so the team can keep track of the work done and future implementation planning.
C. Schedule in-person meetings at the end of each iteration, allowing team members to share knowledge and experience.
D. Seek expert judgment and a new collaboration model that will strengthen team cohesiveness.
A product owner is working on a special agile project for the automobile industry. The project team is responsible for all of the issues related to vehicle electronic control units. The team hasobserved a significant backlog of items in the “In progress' column (Refer to the kanban board). This accumulation is causing delays in task completion and impacting overall project timelines. The team operates in a dynamic environment where requirements frequently change, and stakeholders demand quick turnarounds.
What should the project team adopt to address this issue and improve task flow, considering all the demands?
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?
An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.
What should the agile coach 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?
An agile team is working on a new product and is behind with their deliverables for the quarterly release. The team discovers new issues during each iteration. They start working on the critical issues and sometimes forget to update the backlog. This leads to confusion, delays, and occasional rework.
How should the agile practitioner improve the team’s productivity?
A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.
What is the estimated time remaining for the project?
On an agile project, it is important to identify and engage business stakeholders throughout the project and to ensure the team understands the stakeholders' business needs. Which option supports this idea?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 compete in the marketplace
What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?
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?
During team meetings, the team often struggles with making decisions about their technical approach. What should be done to improve the quality and timeliness of decisions?
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?
A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?
How should a project leader manage stakeholder expectations in an agile project?
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?
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?
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?
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 scrum team is experiencing lengthy discussions leading to no concrete actions during their scrum events. The scrum master determines that these inefficient meetings are producing waste.
What should the scrum master do to make the meetings more efficient?
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?
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?
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?
An agile team is having a meeting with a customer to formulate the product requirements for the next iteration. The outcome of the meeting is a set of clear and detailed requirements.
What should the team do next?
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?
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 is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?
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.
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?
A project's product owner asks the scrum master to facilitate the estimation activity. The scrum master then meets with the team and the product owner to clarify the user stories. Following the meeting, the team assembles and provides individual user-story estimates.
What technique did the team use?
A Kanban team is struggling to prioritize and determine which tasks to handle first according to value. What should the team do to improve this situation?
An agile learn has been in place (or five years and the customer is satisfied with the team's performance and deliverables. Now that the product is buill and delivered, the customer is considering the future role of the Scrum Master.
What should the customer 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?
An agile practitioner notices that team members are disengaged. As a result, the team's velocity has decreased. What should the agile practitioner do to get the team back on track?
During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?
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?
Roadmaps are defined as covering a rolling 12 months. When creating a product roadmap in an agile environment, what factor should the agile lead take into consideration?
An agile coach is working on a digital transformation project. The project team is in the middle of a 5-week sprint. The agile coach notices constant arguing among team members on what should be the preferred technical approach to solve a current business problem. What can the agile coach do to promote collaboration and consensus-building among team members?
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?
An agile team is planning the next iteration for a product release that has accumulated technical debt What should the team 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 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?
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?
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 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?
Due to its complexity a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story. What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?
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?
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?
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 it's teams.
What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?
During a mature agile team's planning meeting, a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation time. However, the team lacks the confidence to try the new framework.
To help the team gain confidence, what should the agile practitioner suggest?
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 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?
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?
An agile team is continuously interrupted by stakeholders wanting to ask product backlog questions. Distractions can have a negative impact on value delivery and quality.
Who is responsible for protecting against distractions?
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 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?
During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?
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 leader has been assigned to a project that involves significant technical complexity. What should the agile leader do to set the project up for success?
To create the project vision, an agile team has scheduled an initial meeting with their customer representative. What should the team bring to this meeting?
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 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 new Scrum team is struggling with the various ceremonies of Scrum. Among other things, the product owner and stakeholders find the technical architecture and design presentations during sprint reviews less than informative.
What should the team do?
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?
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?
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.)
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?
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.)
An agile team is working on refining project requirements. Due to new dependencies uncovered in every working session, the team is unable to complete the detailed solution requirements. Instead of trying to complete requirements, what should the team do to work collaboratively to identify and prioritize the most important requirements and adapt to changes as needed?
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 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?
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?
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?
In a project, the customer asks for a requirement that clearly deviates from the contract terms. How should the contractor react?
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?
A project team has a senior subject matter expert (SME) who is comfortable with data integration. The SME is not inclined to perform regression testing because the SME feels that performing regression testing is more of a junior duty.
What should the scrum master do?
Two agile teams from different company sites need to work and collaborate on the same project. What is the first action the agile project manager should take in order to ensure a smooth collaboration between the two teams?
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?
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?
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?
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 technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint What should the scrum master 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 scrum master is overseeing the launch of a chatbot for the service desk. Complaints come up post-release about edge case responses to queries. After analyzing the issues, the business decision was made to take the chatbot offline, resulting in workflow disruptions and risking the reputation.
How could this situation have been avoided? (Refer to Testing Protocol Table)
A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?
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?
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?
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 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?
At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?
A project team held a working session with a finance team to understand the procurement process. After the meeting, while the agile lead was facilitating the value stream mapping exercise, one of the team members asked: "When calculating the cycle time, which factors should be considered?"
How should the agile lead respond?
A graphic designer on an agile team does not attend most meetings. When asked the reason for not attending, the designer told the agile practitioner that the scrum master could represent them in meetings if needed. The team is frustrated and does not agree with this approach.
Which conflict resolution method would work best in this scenario?
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?
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 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?
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 is halfway through development.
The team has reached a stable velocity after 8 iterations.
Each sprint duration is two weeks.
Since the project is halfway completed, an equal amount of work remains.
If 8 iterations have been completed, 8 more iterations are required to complete the project.
Each iteration (sprint) lasts 2 weeks.
8 iterations × 2 weeks per iteration = 16 weeks.
16 weeks = 4 months.