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What should an agile coach do to maximize team productivity on a complex, high-visibility project?

• Divide the team into areas of expertise based upon professional experience.

• Encourage cross training across different disciplines.

• Empower senior team members to assign tasks.

• Ask the product owner to select task assignments.

A development team wants to receive better customer feedback during product reviews. What should the team do?

• Ask the customer to operate the product's features during the review, and record the customer's reactions.

• Email detailed image documentation of the product's features to the customer for their independent review.

• Show the product's feature codes during the review to enable better understanding of coding operations.

• Ask the team's business systems analyst to operate the product's feature for the customer during the review.

A project iteration has multiple issues, and the project team is unsure which members have the responsibility for them. What should the agile practitioner do?

• Have the project leader delegate the issues to appropriate team members.

• Offer to help the team to be more effective through transparency and collaboration.

• Ask the product owner to direct the team on prioritizing and addressing the issues.

• Create tasks for each of the issues, and assign them to the appropriate team members.

An architectural firm is designing new house for the customer., After a review of initial plan, the customer provide significant contradictory feedback. 

The team had a discussion about how to involve the customer moving forward. As a result some members of the team now want to proceed with a number of iteration and review drwaing with the management before meeting again with the customer.

• Obtain frequent feedback from the customer to learn about their needs, and adjust features based on their value to the customer.

• Maintain the project schedule by completing all originally specified drawings before re-engaging with the customer.

• Log the contradictory feedback as a risk, and perform qualitative and quantitative analyses to identify the root cause.

• Issue a change request to address new requirements, and obtain customer confirmation before continuing work.

How can colocated agile team members share a product delivery plan without sending emails?

• Distribute the project plan to stakeholders at the next sprint planning meeting.

• Place an information radiator in a hallway visible to all stakeholders.

• Share planning activities at the daily standup meeting.

• Assign the responsibility of information sharing to the product owner.

How should an agile team leader handle a situation in which the product owner and development team are not colocated?

• Suggest that the agile principle of colocation is followed.

• Use technology to enable direct and constant collaboration.

• Ask to have an assistant product owner colocated with the development team.

• Request weekly meetings with the product owner to discuss all issues.

After a sprint, the scrum master provides a team member with specific, critical performance feedback. What should the team member do next?

• Explain how the scrum master could improve the feedback process.

• Justify their rationale to the scrum master.

• Ask the scrum master to schedule a brainstorming session on how to work differently in the future.

• Explain that the work from other team members affected the quality of their work.

A project team encounters issues with the network that is managed by another team. These issues are preventing team members from proceeding as quickly as expected with planned work.

What should the scrum master do?

• Empower the team to resolve the issues on its own.

• Work with the team to resolve the issues, and conduct daily follow-up meetings.

• Assume ownership for resolving the issue so that the team can focus on its work.

• Ask the product owner to become involved with the team.

An agile project is in its third sprint. The participation from sales and the sponsor is infrequent. The sponsor states that they will participate when an important portion of the functionality becomes available.

What should the agile leader do?

• Accept the sponsor's response.

• Adjust the backlog priorities so that each sprint contains at least one important portion of functionality.

• Escalate the issue to their manager.

• Explain the importance of early feedback in reducing the need for future rework and waste.

An agile coach wants to ensure that team members understand and work toward the same goal.

What should the coach ask team members to do?

• Prepare their goals and share them with the team.

• Write an elevator pitch about the project.

• Conduct a collaboration workshop for goal setting.

• Meet to determine roles and responsibilities.