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An agile facilitator is helping a team. The team is taking too long in each daily coordination meeting, and the facilitator is beginning to view the time as unproductive.
What should the agile facilitator do to help the team?
An agile project leader notices that the team's velocity has decreased in examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow to enter story statuses
What can happen as a result?
During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of not finishing the project in time.
What should the product owner do to help the team?
An organization strives hard to accelerate value delivery by improving product design, development, and transition activities. What ways of working should the organization discontinue to become an effective player?
The systems integrator for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) project has been onboarded. During an iteration planning session, the team determines that the next highest priority item will take longer than expected to complete in the current sprint.
What should the agile practitioner do next?
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?
HOTSPOT
Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility). Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what? (Select answer from dropdown)
A software development team is working in an environment in which increased competition, demanding customer expectations, and new technological developments pose significant challenges. How should the team plan improvements to their product?
There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?
An agile project team has team members with varying technical skills. Due to recent events that adversely impacted customer satisfaction, management mandated that Kaizen should be given more focus to ensure the quality in product delivery.
Kaizen is a prime concept of which agile practices?
During a project's last iteration, an agile team struggled with a feature's delivery due to the lack of a required skill. The project has already incurred a five-day delay. A further delay of at least 10 days is anticipated.
What should the agile project leader have done to avoid this situation?
A new agile project leader habitually becomes involved in the work from a support perspective and uses information radiators to ensure that all actions to remove impediments are visible to the team. What is the agile project leader doing?
Two team members are working together to deliver an asset management tool. The code delivered by team member A during this sprint is not aligning with the specifications written by team member B. Both team members do not seem to agree on the look and feel of some functionality.
What should the scrum master do in this situation?
A Scrum team has worked hard to reach their sprint goal, but impediments have prevented them from succeeding. The team needed help from a specialist on another team, but the specialist was on a 2-week vacation.
What should the scrum master do?
The product owner is present at the sprint review meeting and states that an estimation for the end of the project must be shared with the company’s steering committee. The scrum master declares that the team reached an average velocity of 40 story points per sprint, considering a biweekly iteration. The team members predict that there are 240 story points remaining.
What is the estimated project conclusion?
As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?
An agile development team is working on a digital transformation project and is facing challenges in obtaining consistent feedback from stakeholders who are dispersed around the world. The product owner is under pressure as this lack of engagement has led to prolonged decision-making cycles and has adversely affected the outcomes of sprints.
How should the team improve stakeholder engagement to help ensure timely feedback and better decision-making? (Refer to Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid)
The first project vision statement meeting for a newly formed team did not achieve its outcome. Lack of participation combined with conflicting views of those who participated led to disagreement on how to proceed.
How can the team improve their collaboration?
A large project team is assigned to a complex technical project with many interdependent epics. The team starts to experience problems in the second sprint as the technical leads are independently unable to determine the needed solutions.
What should the project lead do to help the team?
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?
The team is considering committing to 44 story points for the upcoming sprint. Based on the
velocity chart, what advice should the scrum master offer the team?
During the advanced stages of implementing a complex design, an agile practitioner realizes that the architecture is not scalable for user requirements. The architect suggests a workaround that is minimally adequate but may cause some performance issues.
What should the agile practitioner do?
The lead developer informed the team that they have learned of some possible integration challenges in creating customer dashboards using the architecture the team has chosen. What should an agile practitioner do?
A member of a cross-functional project team is not able to attend regular status meetings and provide progress updates, which is impacting the productivity of the entire team. What should the product owner do to improve productivity?
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?
An organization is using a predictive approach to managing projects. The executives like to see more deliverables in a short time and require that the milestones be achieved on time.
What value can the organization gain by moving to an iterative approach?
During backlog refinement, a team routinely creates tests to demonstrate to the customer that each acceptance criterion has been met. Most acceptance tests results are observable or demonstrable, but testing for one requirement is providing a challenge to the team. The requirement states that the home button should be recognizable and the team is unsure how to test this.
What should the team lead do?
A team member does not understand what the project risks are or the impact that they could have. How should an agile leader communicate risks in a way that the team will understand?
A client states that a product is not being built as requested How should the agile team address this?
During project inception, an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision. The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements, design and delivery plans.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile coach has been hired to improve the performance and quality of developed software. The coach performed an analysis of the software and discovered an excessive number of escaped defects, leading to external failures.
How can the agile coach effectively address and correct defects in the software development process while maintaining predictability and keeping workloads within capacity?
An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.
What should the agile coach do?
A project team is working with an enterprise agile center of excellence (CoE) to transition to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Many of the team members are not familiar with the new methodology and are worried that it will lead to more work and scrutiny.
What should the agile team lead do to help ensure a smooth transition?
During the implementation of a story, a scrum team notifies the scrum master of a technical challenge that is causing a delay. What should the scrum master advise the team to do?
An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables: however, issues arise when the deliverables are integrated. What should the agile practitioner do?
A project was delivered in a foreign country for a big customer, but there are a lot of complaints about the way the functionality was implemented. Now there is a new project to fix the defects of the first one.
What strategy should be used to deliver it successfully?
A large, corporate organization is forced to hire new team members in a geographically remote location from the current team. The manager of the department is concerned about the team not being colocated.
What behavior would indicate the team is not working well together?
As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?
During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner acknowledges this as a risk. What should the product owner do now?
An organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.
What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?
A Scrum team is refining product backlog items for the next sprint in a project. The product owner does not agree with the changes.
Can the product owner reject changes to a product backlog?
A business analyst has been assigned to optimize a process to deliver healthcare services to patients in a clinic. In creating a value stream map, what will the business analyst’s key observations include?
An agile coach is working on a digital transformation project. The project team is in the middle of a 5-week sprint. The agile coach notices constant arguing among team members on what should be the preferred technical approach to solve a current business problem. What can the agile coach do to promote collaboration and consensus-building among team members?
An e-commerce company acquired a tool to customize subject line generation for marketing campaigns. In sprint planning, the team discussed integrating this tool with the customer relationship management system.
Which mitigation strategy is most appropriate to ensure the final product meets the business objectives? (Refer to the Risk Register Exhibit)
A project manager noticed that a team member had been a consistently high performer until a few months ago. Recently, the team member seems distracted and is not performing well.
How should the project manager handle a review with the team member?
New stakeholders are joining a project team where the agile coach will educate them about their roles and responsibilities. How should the stakeholders ensure their objectives are met by product delivery?
A large project team of 20 people from different functional areas has just been formed and the project starts next week. The team will be working on a regulated and strictly controlled pharmaceutical product but does not have subject matter expertise.
Which two actions should the scrum master take as priorities? (Choose two.)
A large project team of 20 people from different functional areas has just been formed and the project starts next week. The team will be working on a regulated and strictly controlled pharmaceutical product but does not have subject matter expertise.
Which two actions should the scrum master take as priorities? (Choose two.)
Based on the backlog metrics in the chart what can explain the jump in points at the end of iteration 4?
During a project's last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root-cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A new product owner needs to manage the backlog of a high-visibility fast-moving project that is consuming a considerable amount of time What should the product owner do?
During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?
Iterations last between a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference for the shorter time. What is the goal for each iteration?
On an agile project, it is important to identify and engage business stakeholders throughout the project and to ensure the team understands the stakeholders' business needs. Which option supports this idea?
A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated.
What should the Scrum Master do?
There is a debate within the organization on whether projects need to be agile or waterfall. Some agile terms and principles are understood differently by the key stakeholders and this delays the decision-making process.
How should the scrum master proceed?
A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.
What is the estimated time remaining for the project?
During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.
What should the scrum master do now?
During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization.
What should the project leader do?
An agile team is having a meeting with a customer to formulate the product requirements for the next iteration. The outcome of the meeting is a set of clear and detailed requirements.
What should the team do next?
Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product's software While most stakeholders attended every sprint review they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project.
What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?
After conducting the second retrospective with project stakeholders, the customer expresses frustration. The customer wants a more predictable roadmap for the delivery of features and functionalities.
How should the project manager respond to the customer?
To create the project vision, an agile team has scheduled an initial meeting with their customer representative. What should the team bring to this meeting?
A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concerns resurface. What should the team have done to improve retrospective outcomes?
What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?
An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time.
What should the agile project manager do?
If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?
A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?
A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times.
Which practices should the team use?
An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.
What should the agile coach do?
Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity. What should the agile coach advise?
An agile learn has only one database administrator with the necessary knowledge of database-related tasks. The project manager identifies the risk that if this person leaves, team velocity will significantly decrease.
What should the agile coach do?
During a sprint review the product owner identifies a required improvement for a feature's user interface (UI) delivered during the sprint What should the product owner 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?
While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?
In a project to develop a supply-and-demand scenario planning tool, the team aims to streamline development and rapidly deliver features. Which approach best supports quick feature delivery while maintaining quality? (Refer to An Excerpt from the Quality Management Plan)
A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.
What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?
An organization wants to execute a corporate website redesign project using Scrum. There is an experienced pool of agile team members from a previous project, as well as a pool of available internal team members with some Scrum background.
What should be considered when selecting the team?
The customer needs assistance in determining the efficiency of a set of process activities within the solution. What should the agile team do?
An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features.
What should the team member do?
During a mature agile team's planning meeting, a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation time. However, the team lacks the confidence to try the new framework.
To help the team gain confidence, what should the agile practitioner suggest?
How can the scrum master respond to a stakeholder who suggests using velocity as a metric to measure team efficiency in an agile project?
During a retrospective, a team member claims that a specific set of documentation that is continuously updated during iterations is not being used by any stakeholder. What should the team do?
During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed What was the determining factor?
As part of the organizational change, all project teams within the digital channel’s portfolio have been directed to move from 3-week iterations to 2-week iterations. The development team is frustrated as they think there will not be enough time to test. The product owner does not like this change as it will increase the number of ceremonies.
Which two actions should the scrum master take? (Choose two.)
An agile project manager has noticed their teams declining morale, mistrust, and isolation over the last 6 months of working on a project. What should the agile project manager do to enhance productivity and create a cohesive team culture?
A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations.
What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?
During an agile team retrospective, some junior team members discussed an approach that could improve the overall team performance. How should the agile practitioner handle the recommendation?
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?
A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?
When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?
During planning, a project team and sponsor created a visual representation of the high-level specifications of the features and user stories to be implemented in a product. Consensus was achieved on this high-level depiction of the product characteristics, but the sponsor is having difficulty understanding what to develop and when.
How should the project manager explain this to the customer and save time in the meeting?
A development team determined the first release of a product should focus on delivering a minimally viable version of the solution. What is the most important reason the team decided to do this?
Throughout the project, an agile practitioner notices that one team member is becoming an emergent leader. What should an agile practitioner do?
An agile lead is working with a team to deliver a new product. During a sprint, a junior team member has been taking too long to deliver a story. During daily coordination meetings, the junior team member does not mention any impediments they might be facing. Senior team members realize the delay but remain quiet. During a one-to-one conversation, the agile lead discovers the junior team member is struggling with a technical issue but feels too intimidated to ask for help.
What should the agile lead do?
An agile lead is working with a team to deliver a new product. During a sprint, a junior team member has been taking too long to deliver a story. During daily coordination meetings, thejunior team member does not mention any impediments they might be facing. Senior team members realize the delay but remain quiet. During a one-to-one conversation, the agile lead discovers the junior team member is struggling with a technical issue but feels too intimidated to ask for help.
What should the agile lead do?
A project sponsor suggested a team forgo in-person demonstration meetings and just send the product owner a link to try out the latest increment of working software. The sponsor says this will give the team more time to deliver value.
How should the agile coach explain the importance of an in-person demonstration meeting with the sponsor?
During team meetings, the team often struggles with making decisions about their technical approach. What should be done to improve the quality and timeliness of decisions?
A senior executive contacted an agile lead about starting an agile project to solve a problem for the human resources (HR) department of a company. The project idea is not clear and no backlog has been developed.
How should the agile lead start the project?
The product owner is working on an application that will be built in a data lake leveraging a data
integration and transformation software application. With a budget of US$17,000 remaining, how should the product owner allocate the money? (Refer to Exhibit A)
What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?
A project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional teams using an adaptive approach. Frequent communication among the team leads of these cross-functional teams is crucial for the project to stay on track and deliver value according to the project plan.
Which agile communication practice should the project manager implement to ensure the cross-functional teams interact frequently?
A team is delivering work as per the sprint plan, and team velocity is stabilized. However, at the end of the release, the customer is dissatisfied with project quality. What should the agile project manager have done to avoid this?
During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?
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?
An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.
What should the team do?
A scrum master is observing the daily coordination meeting of an agile development team. The scrum master realizes that one of the developers is confused about a business rule for the solution they are building.
How should the scrum master address this issue?
During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?
During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.
How could the project leader have avoided this?
The coach on a new agile team notices that one team member is influencing most of the team's decisions. What should the coach do?
The agile team has failed to meet their iteration goal, and contention has developed between members. The agile leader would like to determine how to improve the team's productivity and morale.
How should the agile leader address this?
An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.
What should the agile team do next?
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?
An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?
When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents How should the agile practitioner address this concern?
A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.
What should the agile facilitator do?
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?
Just before a scheduled product launch, the customer declined to accept the final deliverable after seeing the demo. What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?
A team is preparing to demonstrate new product capabilities to a leadership team. The demonstration will show working software and a listing of the projected value of the capabilities.
What should the team do to ensure the demonstration is successful?
Two similar stories A and B are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C.
What should the agile practitioner do?
Several team members are new to agile and there is a lot of confusion. It seems everyone is coming in with different experiences and following their own agendas. The scrum master decided to hold a presentation on core agile principles and values.
What should the scrum master emphasize to the team during the presentation?
A new project is scheduled to begin next month. The project manager has had plenty of time to review and plan all the activities and has adopted the best approach for the project and the organization.
Which action did the project manager most likely take when choosing the approach?
During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.
How can the project team achieve this?
The project lead of a newly created agile project delivery team realizes that there are gaps in the knowledge of some team members. The lack of specific skills will add risk to the project delivery if the project becomes too dependent on specific resources for complete delivery.
What should the project lead do to address the gaps and develop a high-performing team?
A scrum master is part of a team that has just agreed on the project scope and deliverables for a global, multilingual manufacturing company that has many staff members moving between locations. The team consists of 20 people and the budget is US$5 million. The kickoff meeting is scheduled for the following month.
What should the scrum master do as a first step?
A project is to be started with a team of nine existing and nine new members. The scrum master feels that the team is too large and wants to break it into three teams. The scrum master sets aconstraint that each team have an equal number of existing team members for knowledge sharing and experience.
What should the scrum master do to accomplish this?
A scrum team is working together virtually. One of the team members sends a daily email to the other team members listing impediments that they find. During retrospective meetings, the team member complains that their colleagues fail to take actions on the impediments.
How should the team address this issue?
A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team Many team members have worked together on this product for several years During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time
What type of behavior does this describe?
A healthcare agency has contracted a vendor to provide a financial accountability solution. During a daily coordination meeting, the lead developer reports they cannot complete the stories for this iteration because the project director requested a document detailing all testing planned for the solution. The team lead met with the project director to discuss alternatives but insists they need the detailed plan by the end of that week. The team lead advises the lead developer to continue coding.
What should the team lead do next?
An executive sponsor asks a team when a specific feature will be ready for release. A team member states the feature will be ready by the end of release 3 because it is not a core feature. The team member directs the sponsor to an information radiator, where the sponsor sees several notes grouped by release numbers and posted on the wall.
What is the sponsor looking at?
A client has provided their requirements and deadline to the project team. The requirements are confusing, and the team is frustrated.
What should the team's servant leader do?
During agile training, an aspiring scrum master with experience in predictive projects asks about the differences between the Kanban approach and the agile approach.
How should the agile trainer respond?
The manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.
Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to
the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)
Some members of an agile project team work remotely, so it is difficult to have regular face-to-face backlog grooming sessions. How should the agile practitioner ensure that the team is able to reduce miscommunication and rework in this environment?
A product owner needs to elaborate on a product roadmap. How can the product owner collaborate with stakeholders to identify the features that offer maximum value?
A project team developer has been involved in a large corporate initiative that has negatively impacted team productivity on another project to which they have been assigned. How should the developer have handled this situation?
A graphic designer on an agile team does not attend most meetings. When asked the reason for not attending, the designer told the agile practitioner that the scrum master could represent them in meetings if needed. The team is frustrated and does not agree with this approach.
Which conflict resolution method would work best in this scenario?
Why should an agile coach model agile principles and behaviors, become self-aware, and be present?
TESTED 20 Apr 2025
Velocity = 40 story points per sprint
Remaining Work = 240 story points
Sprint Duration = 2 weeks
The project is halfway through development.
The team has reached a stable velocity after 8 iterations.
Each sprint duration is two weeks.
Since the project is halfway completed, an equal amount of work remains.
If 8 iterations have been completed, 8 more iterations are required to complete the project.
Each iteration (sprint) lasts 2 weeks.
8 iterations × 2 weeks per iteration = 16 weeks.
16 weeks = 4 months.
Accessibility – color blind (4 story points)
Increase security (21 story points)
Add AI chatbot (5 story points)
MVP Completion: The risk register mentions a burn reduction for sprints 4-6 due to holiday schedules.
If the burn rate is consistent after sprint 6, the MVP will be completed by sprint 9.
The entire backlog is projected to complete by sprint 16 assuming no further deviations.