During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog. What should the team do?
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?
Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.
What should the team do?
An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints
What should the agile coach do in this situation?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
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'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?
Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?
A mature agile team welcomes a new member Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.
What should the agile project leader do?
After three iterations, it is identified that a project's underlying security structure architecture is unstable. While there is a technical solution, all work to date is flawed. This will impact several future business service offerings.
What should the product owner do to resolve this?
An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports.
What should the project leader do?
What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?
When a team member encounters an issue in an agile environment, what should they do?
The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this.
What should the team do next?
A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large initial investment However if successful the profit potential is high.
When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about project failure to authorize the initial investment?
A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?
A product owner new to the role is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?
A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.
What agile tools can help the team address these issues?
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?
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
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?
During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.
What should the project leader do?
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?
As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?
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?
During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?
During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work However the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete.
What should be done with this story?
A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?
A scrum master assumes a project that is essential to organizational growth. The project is expected to be in production for three years. What should the scrum master do first?
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 should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?
A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. What should the team do?