PMI-ACP (10A)

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.

• Meet to determine roles and responsibilities.

• Conduct a collaboration workshop for goal setting.

• Write an elevator pitch about the project.

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.

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

• Escalate the issue to their manager.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

• Justify their rationale to the scrum master.

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.

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

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

• Use technology to enable direct and constant collaboration.

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

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

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

• Share planning activities at the daily standup meeting.

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

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What should the team do?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

• Ask the product owner to select task assignments.

• Empower senior team members to assign tasks.

• Encourage cross training across different disciplines.