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After the creation of the Release Plan, the Product Owner says: Over the next four months with eight two-week Sprints we will complete exactly 240 Story Points of work The Scrum Master argues that the end date of the release can be positively or negatively impacted by three factors. Completed work is the first factor. What are the other two factors?
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New Scrum Masters are often put in the challenging position of coaching teams at something that they are not yet very used to themselves: being Agile. What can a new Scrum Master leave to someone else?
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Theresa is a recently appointed Scrum Master for a new project. After three Sprints, she reviews the team's performance and quality of delivery. Theresa feels that the team would benefit from decreasing the Sprint length from four weeks to two weeks. How should Theresa handle this?
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Your organization found that the Product Owner is consistently under more pressure than the developers and other participants in the project. What is a common solution for that?
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Company ABC is building a large and complex internal manufacturing resource planning system. A microservices architecture is utilized to support a non-monolithic approach. The system comprises several modules, of which each one is developed by its own dedicated team. The teams all have their own Product Backlog and Product Owner. A Chief Product Owner is overseeing the project as a whole. After several Sprints, one of the teams complains about prioritization problems. The different teams seem to be working out of sync. Certain common functionalities are not considered to be equally important. What should the Scrum Master do?
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A Development Team consists of various different roles: analysts, programmers, UX experts, DBA and systems architects. They are estimating Backlog items in Ideal Days. What is the best approach to provide estimates for the Backlog Items ?
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A Scrum Team has agreed on the following definition of Potentially Shippable: Potentially Shippable increments must be tested and must meet the Conditions of Satisfaction provided by the Product Owner. Why is it important to include 'tested' in the definition of what is Potentially Shippable?
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Kevin is a Product Owner for a retail organization. The Product Backlog for his immense marketing tool project has 200 Product Backlog items. Into what should he group the smaller Stories together?
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What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?
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The Product Owner informs the team that the release will be date-driven and on a tight schedule. What kind of buffer for uncertainty is most important to use in this type of release?
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A Scrum Master in a midsize organization, is tempted to think that every User Story or Product Backlog item should be made as small as possible. However, in some cases it can be appropriate to combine items. When is it appropriate to combine items?
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Your Scrum Team has noticed an item on the Enterprise Transition Community's (ETC) improvement backlog and decided to work together to achieve that goal. What is the best way to work on improving an ETC item?
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An organization transitions to Scrum. They have studied several strategies for spreading Scrum across the organization. The strategy of their choice has the following benefits: You can add teams more quickly than with most other approaches, and each team has someone with Scrum experience to help guide them. Which strategy is this?
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One of the most important benefits of physically working in the same room is that it fosters communication. For which typical Agile method should you be in contact with your co-worker continuously?
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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?
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8. Which Agile methodology aims to extend Scrum to multiple Teams working on the same product or service?
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A Scrum Master is teaching Agile estimation techniques using Story Points to a new team. A more experienced member of the team argues that: An estimate expressed in Story Paints is useful for a shorter period of time than an estimate in Ideal Days. Is this true and what is the reason?
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16. You experience resistance from Skeptics. What is the best action a Scrum Master can take to overcome this?
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18. For a cross-functional team, it is important that all skills, that are necessary to go from an idea to an implemented feature, are represented within the team. What consequence can this have when you start Agile Scrum?
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How can pair programming help with adopting Agile?
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A team finds bugs in a feature. What is the best action to take?
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What is the main reason to limit Scrum Teams to 9 team members?
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10. A good Scrum Master is responsible, humble, collaborative, committed, influential, and knowledgeable. A Scrum Master leaves the Scrum Master role midway during a project. Which of the six attributes does this Scrum Master not demonstrate?
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A Chief Scrum Master works with two main sites, one in Europe and one in Australia. The distributed teams ask if they are allowed to make local adaptations to the Scrum practices to accommodate their specific needs. Should the Chief Scrum Master allow such adaptations?
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Which information radiator can the team use best during the Sprint to track the work?
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NPV is the Net Present Value. IRR is the Internal Rate of Return. Which of the following statements is correct about financial prioritization?
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A Sprint planning is created in a Sprint Planning meeting. Anyone involved in taking a raw idea and turning it into a functioning product should be present in this meeting. Who acts as the facilitator for this meeting?
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17. An inexperienced Scrum team uses Story Points to estimate User Stories. Halfway through a Sprint, the Story Points finished do not match the estimated Velocity of the team. The team makes less progress than expected. How should the team address this?
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Inexperienced Agile teams tend to overestimate how much they will achieve in their first Sprint. What activity is most important before the first Sprint?
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What is one of the most difficult challenges you face when transitioning your software development team to Scrum?
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The ability for a Scrum Team to self-organize around the goals of a project is fundamental to all Agile methodologies. Why is a Scrum Team a self-organized team?
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You are a project manager for a midsize software company, which still uses the Waterfall model. Your customer wants new software project. When should you consider the use of Agile?
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Why is a Product Owner not allowed to define the workload of the Development Team for a new Sprint?
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Your Scrum Team has a firm deadline in six months and needs to be able to convey exactly what will be delivered to your customer by then. The Team can provide a lot of detail about the most important features, which have been prioritized highest on the Product Backlog. You could choose to provide all details of all Product Backlog items at the start of the project, but in this case the Scrum Master argued for progressively refining the plan. What is one of the advantages to progressively refining a plan?
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8. The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration. Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrums meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?
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A company is using the ADAPT methodology to transition to Agile. Promotion of Agile is important, because it makes people remember the Agile approach and employees outside the team can see its successes. Which approach is the best promotion of Scrum?
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14. A Scrum Team suggests to have a project with 3 Sprints of 2 weeks, while the customer suggests 1 Sprint of 6 weeks. What is the greatest advantage of having 3 Sprints of 2 weeks?
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During a Sprint Planning, a team has picked three User Stories: Story 1 - 5 Story Points Story 2 - 8 Story Points Story 3 - 3 Story Points At the end of the Sprint, the team has completed Story 1 and Story 3 and the Product Owner accepts these. The team has almost completed Story 2 but there are a few bugs identified in acceptance tests. What is the Velocity of this team?
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20. As items are developed and removed from the top of the Product Backlog, the Product Backlog iceberg develops a flat spot at the top and loses its shape. What would be a necessary measure to counter this effect?
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A team's physical environment can have a big influence on how Agile a team can become. An important benefit of an open space workplace is the ease with which the layout of the area can be changed. Why does this comply with the Agile principles?
