SWE Sprint 4 Set 2

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Scrum Mastery Challenge

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In the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner and the Development Team were unable to reach a clear understanding about the highest order Product Backlog items. Because of this, the Development Team couldn’t figure out how many Product Backlog items it could forecast for the upcoming Sprint. They were able to agree on a Sprint Goal, however. Which of the following two actions should the Scrum Master support? (Choose two.)

Continue the Sprint Planning meeting past its time-box until an adequate number of Product Backlog items are well enough understood for the Development Team to make a complete forecast. Then start the Sprint.

During the next Sprint Retrospective discuss why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.

Forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the goal and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, start the Sprint and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.

Ask everyone to take as much time as needed to analyze the Product Backlog first, and then reconvene another Sprint Planning meeting.

Cancel the Sprint. Send the entire team to an advanced Scrum training and then start a new Sprint.

During the Sprint Review, one of the stakeholders announces that due to recent market changes, there is risk that funding might be reduced for the project. This triggers tensions to rise and arguments to break out between members. As a Scrum Master, what would be the best two actions to take? (Choose two.)

Inform everyone that the team needs to stay busy until the information is formally announced.

Defend the original budget and request the stakeholders to adhere to the original agreed funding for the product.

Be objective and request for a short break for people to calm down.

Encourage the stakeholders and Product Owner to focus on delivering the highest value items for the next Sprint.

Avoid getting involved as it is the Product Owner’s responsibility to manage stakeholder expectations.

In order to achieve the benefits of Scrum, it is important to enact the value of commitment. What two actions demonstrate the commitment of Scrum Team members? (Choose the best two answers.)

What are two ways that regulatory compliance are dealt with in Scrum? (choose the best two answers)

They are discussed, determined, and documented before the actual feature development Sprints.

They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed in early Sprints, while always requiring at least some business functionality, no matter how small.

They are addressed along with functional development of the product.

They are addressed by a separate team who is responsible for compliance issues.

A Scrum Master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and he/she has been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which three techniques would be most helpful in this situation? (Choose two.)

As a scrum team, prioritize the list and work on them in order.

The scrum master discusses the impediments with the Development Team.

Arranging a triage meeting with all project managers.

The product owner should add the open impediments to the Product Backlog.

Steven is a Scrum Master of a Scrum Team that is new to Scrum. At the halfway point of the Sprint, the Product Owner comes to Steven telling him that he is concerned the Development Team will not be able to complete the entire Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint. What should Steven do in this situation?

Motivate the Development Team to meet their commitment to the Product Owner.

Add more people to the Development Team to meet the Product Owner’s expectations.

Coach the Product Owner that with complex software development, you cannot promise the entire scope that was forecast during Sprint Planning. As more is learned during the Sprint, work may emerge that affects the Sprint Backlog.

Advise the Product Owner that the Development Team owns the Sprint Backlog and it is up to them to meet their commitments. No one tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.

Which two scenarios would best represent a self-organizing Development Team? (Choose two.)

The Development Team invites external people to the Sprint Planning to help them create a complete and detailed Sprint Backlog.

The Development Team creates its own Sprint Backlog, reflecting all work that is part of the Definition of Done.

Management works with the Scrum Master to optimize the Development Team’s progress during the Sprint.

The Development Team members are strictly focused on the work within their functional role and always handing off the work to other roles in a timely matter.

Development Team members collaboratively select and re-plan their work throughout the Sprint.

A Scrum Master is introducing Scrum to a new Development Team. The Developers have decided that a Sprint Retrospective is unnecessary. What action should the Scrum Master take? (Choose the best answer.)

Comply with the decision of the self-organizing team.

Consult with the Product Owner to see how he/she feels about the situation.

Begin facilitating productive and useful Sprint Retropectives.

Call a meeting between the Development Team and senior management.

Select two ways in which Scrum uses time-boxing to promote self-organization? (Choose two.)

Time-boxes helps everybody concentrate on the same problem at the same time.

Time-boxes can help teams plan how many additional Sprints is needed for User Acceptance testing.

Time-boxes ensures that the Development Team commits to completing the items in the Sprint Backlog by the end of the Sprint.

Time-boxes encourage the ones closest to the problem make the best possible decisions within the time-frame given the current situation.

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