During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?
At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?
The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.
What should be done to address the issue?
Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met. The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project.
How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?
A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?
During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?
A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?
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?
The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?
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?
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?
A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules How should the team lead address this?
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?
The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months What should the scrum master do?
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 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?
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?
When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?
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?
An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?
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?
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?
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?
An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?
How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action.
What should the team do?
As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?
Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.
What should the agile practitioner do?