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Which of the following shows you that a Scrum Team's implementation of Scrum looks good?
Answer: Explanation:
The answer "They can release every Sprint" may be tricky. The increment must be releasable but, more importantly, it must provide value. The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint. Meeting the Sprint Goal is a better answer, as one of the requirements for meeting a Sprint Goal is to deliver a valuable and useful Increment. During the Sprint: No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal; Quality does not decrease; The Product Backlog is refined as needed; and, Scope may be clarified and renegotiated with the Product Owner as more is learned.
Question 17Selectable Answer
Delivering more value per Sprint may require higher costs.
Answer: Explanation:
Spending more does not mean more value. However, if the Product Owner is doing a good job maximizing value per Sprint, to deliver more value in the long term, the Scrum Team might need more resources.
Question 18Selectable Answer
The objective of the Sprint defined in the Sprint Goal can be changed as much as wanted during the Sprint with no consequences.
Answer: Explanation:
During the Sprint: No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal; Quality does not decrease; The Product Backlog is refined as needed; and, Scope may be clarified and renegotiated with the Product Owner as more is learned.
The Sprint Goal is defined during the Sprint Planning to set the objective of the Sprint and there is no reference of updating it during the Sprint. However, the Scrum Guide does not explicitly forbids updating it.
Sometimes the Sprint Goal may be slightly updated if it has typos or to improve its readability, but the essence of its objective cannot be changed.
For instance, Sprint Goal "Allow payments with Paypal" may be updated to "Allow payments with Paypal in Germany" because Germany was already part of the acceptance criteria and discussed, therefore such change makes the Sprint Goal more clear.
However, one cannot update it to something like "Allow payments with Paypal, Visa, Crypto, bank transfer, and cash" because It puts in danger the original Sprint Goal. Furthermore, changing it to something like "Allow payments with Visa, bank transfer, and cash" would make the original Sprint Goal obsolete and the reason for the Sprint.
The Sprint Goal is the answer to "why" we are doing this sprint, the reason for this Sprint.
In Summary, you cannot change the "reason" for the current Sprint.
Question 19Selectable Answer
What is discussed during the Sprint Retrospective? Select three answers
Answer: Explanation:
The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The Scrum Team inspects how the last Sprint went with regards to individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done. Inspected elements often vary with the domain of work. Assumptions that led them astray are identified and their origins explored. The Scrum Team discusses what went well during
the Sprint, what problems it encountered, and how those problems were (or were not) solved.
Question 20Selectable Answer
Which of the following are Key Value Areas from the EBM framework? Select all the answers that apply.
Answer: Explanation:
Desire to Innovate (D2I) is not a Key Value Area.
Question 21Selectable Answer
Which questions will help organizations to continually re-evaluate for unrealized value? Select three answers
Answer:
Question 22Selectable Answer
Which Key Value Area would the following Key Value Measures (KVM) help: Defect Trends, Installed Version Index, Technical Debt, Active Product (Code) Branches?
Answer: Explanation:
Ability to Innovate (A2I): The effectiveness of an organization to deliver new capabilities that might better meet customer needs KVMs: Innovation Rate The percentage of effort or cost spent on new product capabilities, divided by total product effort or cost. This provides insight into the capacity of the organization to deliver new product capabilities. Defect Trends Measurement of change in defects since last measurement. A defect is anything that reduces the value of the product to a customer, user, or to the organization itself. Defects are generally things that don’t work as intended. On-Product Index The percentage of time teams spend working on product and value. Installed Version Index: The number of versions of a product that are currently being supported. This reflects the effort the organization spends supporting and maintaining older versions of software. Technical Debt: A concept in programming that reflects the extra development and testing work that arises when “quick and dirty” solutions result in later remediation. It creates an undesirable impact on the delivery of value and an avoidable increase in waste and risk. Production Incident Count: The number of times in a given period that the Development Team was interrupted to fix a problem in an installed product. The number and frequency of Production Incidents can help indicate the stability of the product. Active Product (Code) Branches: The number of different versions (or variants) of a product or service. Provides insight into the potential impact of change and the resulting complexity of work. Time Spent Merging Code Between Branches: The amount of time spent applying changes across different versions of a product or service. Provides insight into the potential impact of change and the resulting complexity of work. Time Spent Context-Switching: Examples include time lost to interruptions caused by meetings or calls, time spent switching between tasks, and time lost when team members are interrupted to help people outside the team can give simple insight into the magnitude of the problem. Change Failure Rate: The percentage of released product changes that result in degraded service and require remediation (e.g. hotfix, rollback, patch).
Question 23Selectable Answer
What is lead time?
Answer: Explanation:
Lead Time: The amount of time from when an idea is proposed, or a hypothesis is formed until a customer can benefit from that idea. This measure may vary based on customer and product. It is a contributing factor for customer satisfaction.
Question 24Selectable Answer
The Scrum events help with inspection
Answer: Explanation:
To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events
Question 25Selectable Answer
The Developers of a Scrum Team complain that the technology and coding techniques they are using are behind the market trends and that they do not see opportunities for personal growth in this project.
Which of the following statements are true about personal development? Select three answers.
Answer: Explanation:
Read the following Principles of the Agile manifesto:
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. They imply that the team as a whole and the members of a team must improve to achieve technical excellence and good architecture. Managers and leaders must give the environment and support to encourage personal growth. Therefore, Personal development is a responsibility of everyone in the organization, a responsibility of the team, and a responsibility of the managers.
Question 26Selectable Answer
The Definition of Done of a Scrum Team requires updating the user's manual document with the new functionality as a reference for thousands of users and support technicians. The team's writer will be on vacation during the next Sprint.
What should the team do?
Answer: Explanation:
Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value each Sprint. They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how. Developers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint. The specific skills needed by the Developers are often broad and will vary with the domain of work.
However, the Developers are always accountable for:
- Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog;
- Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done;
- Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal; and, - Holding each other accountable as professionals. The Definition of Done is a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product. The Developers are required to conform to the Definition of Done. The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint. During the Sprint:
- No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal;
- Quality does not decrease;
- The Product Backlog is refined as needed; and, - Scope may be clarified and renegotiated with the Product Owner as more is learned. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, Developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. Working in Sprints at a sustainable pace improves the Scrum Team’s focus and consistency. Therefore, the Developers should organize to cover the absence of any member and remain the Scrum Teams cross-functional without affecting the quality.
Question 27Selectable Answer
Delivering on time and budget is the primary benefit of an Agile approach.
Answer: Explanation:
The primary benefit of an Agile approach is to deliver more value by enabling the team to inspect and adapt their results in short increments.
- "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." - "Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems." - "The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team."
Question 28Selectable Answer
A Developer tells the Scrum Master that she sees a high risk of a delay in the Product release date.
What action should the Scrum Master take?
Answer: Explanation:
The Scrum Team is responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, verification, risks, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required. They are structured and empowered by the organization to manage their own work. The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including: Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality; Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done; Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress; and, Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox. It is best to coach the Developers to collaborate on issues regardless of severity and look for a solution.
Question 29Selectable Answer
What is identified by the end of the Sprint Retrospective?
Answer: Explanation:
The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.
Question 30Selectable Answer
An experienced CTO suggests that for the 3 products the company is building, they should have 3 Product Owners and rotate them between Products every 4 months. The CTO says he has tried it before in his previous job and reduces the dependency that teams have on a Product Owner. Product Owners can be exchanged between Scrum Teams, without any impact on team or velocity, as the Product Owner does not do any development maximizing general domain knowledge.
Do you agree with this approach?
Answer: Explanation:
Changing the members of the Scrum Team is allowed as needed but a short-term reduction in performance or velocity might be considered. Adding or removing members will require coordination, onboarding and therefore, productivity will temporarily drop. The importance of the Product Owner having subject matter expertise, or strong relationships with the stakeholder community cannot be overlooked. In complex value chains it often takes a long time before the Product Owner can become effective. For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions. These decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, and through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review. The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. Those wanting to change the Product Backlog can do so by trying to convince the Product Owner. Changing the Product Owner will cause weak ownership, reduce velocity, context switching, confusion for the Developers and Stakeholders of who to talk to and many other issues.
