PMI-ACP (10B)

An experienced technical leader of agile teams must develop a new, complex component for a new project. What should the technical leader do to ensure that the architecture and high-level designs are comprehensive and understood by the team?

• Create the architecture and high-level design and train the team.

• Conduct a brainstorming session with stakeholders and the team and create the deliverables.

• Create a story for the deliverables and assign it to the most senior person on the team.

• Develop the initial architecture and high-level design then discuss with the team.

A coder is struggling to satisfy a product owner's specific requirements. How can a daily standup help the coder?

• Direction from the agile practitioner can be obtained.

• A discussion on whether the code requirement is a priority can be held

• The issue can be raised with the team to create visibility.

• Possible solutions can be discussed with the team.

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.

• 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.

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?

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

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

• 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.

A newly formed agile project team has developers that work on front-end, back-end, testing, and requirements development. Only one developer has the specific knowledge and skills key to several project iterations.

How should the team minimize the risk of temporarily losing this developer?

• Rotate team members on and off the team as needs rise and fall.

• Create a working agreement to minimize the out-of-office time that any member may use during the project.

• Add specialty people to the team to alleviate potential bottlenecks and increase performance.

• Begin pair programming to increase team members' experience.

During a retrospective, a team member explains that a delay was caused by a misunderstanding of how long it would take another team to set up a server. What should the agile coach do next to ensure against a reoccurrence of this type?

• Ask the other team to more quickly set up the server in the future.

• Write a process for the other team to follow when setting up a server.

• Assign the work to the team that can most quickly set up a server.

• Meet with the other team to understand the process for setting up a server.

An agile project team is holding a go/no-go session for their launch. Half believe the launch should be delayed, while the other half feel it should proceed.

What should the team lead do?

• Ask team members who want to delay to present evidence of their reasons.

• Recommend that the launch be delayed until there is team consensus.

• Launch the project due to lack of evidence to delay it.

• Ask the product manager to make the final decision.

What should an agile coach advise when a team wants to identify its strengths and weaknesses during recent sprints?

• Recognize the team members who provide the most feedback.

• Compare the feedback from recent retrospectives to see if there are patterns.

• Collect feedback in a safe, anonymous manner.

• Keep experimenting with different methods of collecting feedback.

During an iteration, a team member makes a decision that impacts another member's work. This creates a conflict, which despite their efforts, they were unable to resolve on their own.

What should the agile coach do?

• Use their authority to intervene and eliminate the conflict.

• Ask the product owner to become involved.

• Communicate with the team members to help them de-escalate the conflict.

• Meet with the entire team to reestablish communication rules.

A product owner asks the development team to add an item during backlog grooming. What should the product owner do to validate the assumption that the added item will generate value?

• Set the sprint goal before selecting product backlog items during sprint planning.

• Release a product increment to the market, and validate it against users and the market.

• Inspect the sprint burndown, and reprioritize the backlog at the daily scrum.

• Accept an increment of functionality during the sprint review.