Which of the following is a responsibility of the Scrum Master in the context of change in Scrum?
A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance. One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators.
What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?
You are hosting a Sprint Retrospective for the Scrum Team and you want to set some ground rules for the meeting. All of following are appropriate topics for the Sprint Retrospective meeting except for which one?
A team is transitioning to Scrum Sam. one of the team members really liked the way the team was working before He is actively speaking out against changing the way of working Sam is a diehard.
Addy is the Scrum Master of the team and wants to help Sam overcome his resistance
What is the best way to help a diehard overcome resistance?
Your company has discovered that it takes more than high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel. It also takes speed and flexibility. This calls for a different approach: you are aware that the current process is not delivering acceptable results.
What would be the next activity after becoming aware?
Emily has taken on the role of Scrum Master on a new project. Training the team is one of her major
responsibilities. As Scrum Master, which aspects will Emily need to address in this respect?
A) Gaps in technical knowledge in any of the team members.
B) Shortcomings in the Scrum Team's understanding of business value of features.
C) Increasing the team's capability to articulate their challenges to find solutions.
D) Lack of understanding of the Scrum processes and principles.
Which of the following Scrum Master's responsibilities are correct?
A) Define the strategic objectives and priorities for projects.
B) Ensure that Scrum processes are correctly followed by all team members including the Product Owner.
C) Ensure transparency and clarity of Prioritized Product Backlog Items.
D) Oversee Release Planning Meeting and schedule other meetings.
Maria is one of the Scrum Master for a rail-road reservation system program. She facilitates the Daily Standup
Meetings to enable the Scrum Team to discuss issues faced by individual members, and seek solutions to
motivate the team. Which of the following represents the mandatory outputs of Conduct Daily Standup
process?
A Scrum team uses a Scrum board. They have recently introduced work-in-progress limits (WiP-limits) and blocker tickets to improve flow. The blocker tickets show on which tickets the Developers cannot currently work
The Product Owner walks past the Scrum board and sees a blocker ticket in the 'doing' column with a WiP-limit of 2 He suggests that the ticket affected is moved back to the waiting to be done' column so that another ticket can be worked on in the meantime
How should the Scrum Master respond to this suggestion?
In Scrum, it is advised to keep Scrum teams relatively small. The reason is that smaller teams are more productive. Why are smaller teams generally more productive?
A Scrum Team is estimating the prioritized User Stories. Each team member has been assigned a deck of
numbered cards, in which each card is numbered in a sequence. The team members use these cards to
assess a particular User Story by picking and showing a card from the deck that represents their estimate for
the User Story. Which estimation tool is the Scrum Team using?
A representative of the customer has asked the Development Team to add a very important item to an ongoing Sprint. What should they do?
The Scrum Master can help the Product Owner update business justification in the Project Vision statement
and ensure continuous value justification for projects by facilitating which of the following processes?
A) Conduct Daily Standup
B) Groom Prioritized Product Backlog
C) Retrospect Project
D) Sprint Deliverables
The table given below presents some Scrum roles that play an important part in business justification and their
responsibilities. Choose the option that correctly matches each role in the left hand column to its action in the
right hand column.
One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to ensure that the Product Owner does not change the
Acceptance Criteria of a committed User Story in the middle of a Sprint. In this regard, which of the following
statements about Acceptance Criteria is correct?
A team is new to Scrum and is enthusiastic to try it. The company is very open and there is enough trust between management and coworkers.
The Developers on the team used to work in two separate teams with different specialties Previously they were working as competitive teams racing to become team of the month Because they feel they should have all competences represented in the team to be self-sufficient, they will form a team together.
For Scrum to be successful the team must do the following things (in alphabetical order)
- change their assumptions about how to work and how others may be able to help
- make the culture into a true Agile culture because it is only halfway there now
- switch me focus from traditional development methods to delivering value for the customer in cooperation with the customer
- implement and start using a new set of Agile measures to track progress
You are a Scrum Master on a project that is preparing to begin its first Sprint. You explain to the Scrum team
the concept of Daily Standup Meetings. You include all of the following points in your introduction to the Daily
Standup Meeting, EXCEPT:
Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to
your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories
committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement. Which
one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?
A company is transitioning to Scrum. The Scrum Master tells the management team that the role of traditional management does not exist in an Agile environment. The management team asks what the managers should do once the company has transitioned to Scrum. They feel insecure about letting all control go and wish to supervise the Scrum teams closely.
What should the Scrum Master teach the Scrum teams and the managers about Scrum?
Program Stakeholders, the Program Product Owner, Program Scrum Master, and Chief Product Owner have
gathered together to create the Project Vision. They are trying to determine and document the difference
between current business capabilities and the final desired set of capabilities. Which one of the following
should they use to arrive at a conclusive decision?
Collaboration within a team is an important principle of Scrum. All of the following activities constitute
collaboration EXCEPT:
During a Daily Standup Meeting, several members of the team voice their concerns about some Acceptance
CriteriA. Which of the following would be the best course of action?
A start-up company that uses Scrum has a discussion Some of the coworkers do not see the use of portfolio planning for such a small company After all they only have two small Scrum teams.
Why is the portfolio planning important for this company?
A company that builds propellers for ships has incurred heavy losses while implementing the product at the end of the project. This is because a large number of customer requirements which changed during the project were not incorporated into the deliverables. The company could have avoided this situation if it had applied the Scrum Methodology, as it would have ensured that any change requested by the customer was included as part of the project, and that the team produced deliverables that were better suited to the final business environment. Which Scrum aspect is being emphasized here?