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1. The team is planning the next iteration.

They just finished reviewing the


overall list of features that will eventually be delivered. What is the next thing
that they should do?

A. Have each team member answer questions about work completed, future work, and
known impediments
B. Define a release plan that includes the correct level of detail
C. Extract individual requirements to focus on for the next increment
D. Establish communication with the appropriate stakeholders

2. Your company implements a requirement that teams create highly detailed


documentation as part of the company-wide software development lifecycle.
What is the correct response?

A. Use negotiation techniques to help the organization become more agile


B. Agile teams do not value comprehensive documentation, so the team should not
produce it
C. Select a process for the team that delivers the highly detailed documentation without
sacrificing delivery of customer value
D. Ensure that the team is delivering working software, while still producing the minimal
documentation needed to build the software

3. A software team at a company with a strict waterfall process is having


engineering problems which are causing them to build features that do not
adequately meet users' needs.
How can this team address the situation?

A. Assign team members to the product owner and scrum master role and manage the work
using sprints
B. Use quarterly and weekly cycles, refactoring, test-driven development, pair programming,
and incremental design
C. Use Kaizen and practice continuous improvement

D. Establish a team space that uses caves and commons, osmotic communication, and
information radiators.

4. Your team discovers that the velocity decreased by 20% three iterations ago,
and that it has stayed steady at that lower level since then.
How is this most likely to affect the release plan?

A. The team must reduce the size or number of deliverables that they committed to in the
release plan
B. The release plan will not be affected
C. The team can increase the size or number of deliverables that they committed to in the
release plan

D. The team must change the frequency of releases in the release plan
5. You are an agile practitioner. Several members of your team have expressed
concern that the project is not progressing as well as they would like.
What is the best course of action?

A. Post a burn-down chart in a highly visible part of the team space


B. Consult the communications plan and distribute project performance information
C. Discuss the status of the project at the next daily standup meeting

D. Distribute status reports that include burn-down charts

6. Your team has completed a brainstorming session to identify risks, issues,


and other potential problems and threats to the project.
Which of the following is not a useful next step?

A. Assign a relative priority to each of the issues, risks, and problems


B. Assign owners to each of the problems and risks and keep track of the status
C. Use Kano analysis to prioritize the requirements for the project
D. Encourage action on specific issues that were raised

7. Your project is changing frequently, and you are concerned that you are not
delivering business value as effectively as possible.
How do you make sure that your team is delivering value and increasing that
value throughout the project?

A. Use information radiators


B. Meet with executives after each increment
C. Meet with executives every day
D. Brainstorm improvement ideas with the team

8. You are a scrum master. A member of your team is concerned that there are
too many team meetings and would like to skip the daily standup meeting
once a week.
What should you do?

A. Explain that the rules of Scrum require that everyone attend the meeting
B. Help the team member understand how the daily meeting helps everyone on the team find
problems early and fix them
C. Partner with the team member's manager because attending the daily standup is a job
requirement
D. Work with the team to set ground rules that everyone attend the daily standup
9. You overhear two senior managers discussing a company-wide problem with
software teams that deliver software late, and that the software often fails to
deliver much value.
What is the best way to handle this situation?

A. Take the opportunity to evangelize about Scrum and insist that more teams be required to
use it
B. Offer to speak with other teams about your own team's past success with agile
C. Engage your product owner to determine how best to take advantage of this situation
D. Explain that agile teams always follow the values and principles of agile

10. You are an agile practitioner on a team that uses a Scrum/XP hybrid. Two
team members disagree on how much effort it will take to implement a story in
the current sprint.
Which of the following is not an effective action to take?

E. Use wideband Delphi to generate an estimate for the story


F. Have the product owner decide if the longer estimate is acceptable to the stakeholders
G. Have an informal group discussion about the factors that cause the estimates to differ
H. Call a team meeting to play a round of planning poker

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