PMI-ACP (10C)

During an iteration, a team encounters complexities for which there are two possible solutions. One is a quick fix with minimal project impact; the other is more strategic, but could have significant cost and schedule implications.

What should the agile practitioner do?

• Ask the product owner to collaborate with the stakeholders to agree on the proper solution.

• Have the agile leader raise this as an issue requiring a team decision.

• Ask the team to collectively decide on the solution and inform the stakeholders.

• Ensure transparency with the stakeholders so they understand the options, and a group decision is made.

Midway through a sprint, a product owner brings new user stories to the team. The product owner informs the team that high-level estimates need to be quickly prepared and communicated to the customer. Team members have little time to review the user stories to obtain context on what they are being asked to estimate. What should the team do?

• Request more details so an accurate estimate can be provided.

• Inform the product owner that since the team is in a sprint, estimates cannot be conducted.

• Request more time to review the user stories, and defer estimation.

• Provide its best estimate based on the limited amount of available information.

Based on the table, if team velocity is 5, how many iterations will be needed to complete all stories?

• 7

• 6

• 5

• 4

An agile project is understaffed and needs additional team members to complete the deliverables. What should the project leader do when selecting new team members?

• Select full-time team members who can be dedicated to the project.

• Opt for part-time team members with specialized skills.

• Ensure team cohesion by choosing team members from the same functional areas with similar skills.

• Use team members selected by the functional managers.

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?

• Meet to determine roles and responsibilities.

• Prepare their goals and share them with the team.

• Conduct a collaboration workshop for goal setting.

• Write an elevator pitch about the project.

An agile team working on an iteration identifies a number of problems that will lead to delays. What should the team do to effectively handle the situation?

• Defer the problems for a later iteration to protect this iteration's velocity.

• Create a problem board to expose and resolve problems that are local to the team.

• Ask the product owner to identify solutions and priorities for the problems.

• Perform a root cause analysis, and transfer the problems to an appropriate group for resolution

Members of an extended project team are attending their first retrospective. What should the agile coach do to ensure their participation?

• Ask them to sit near the front of the room.

• Demo the last iteration.

• Have them introduce themselves.

• Request that they review the working agreements.

An agile team has been performing as expected according to its velocity. However, during the demo, a stakeholder asks why more was not completed within the iteration.

What should the agile project leader do?

• Plan a morale-boosting team event.

• Colocate the stakeholder with the team.

• Inform the stakeholder that the team performed as expected based upon its velocity.

• Conduct a root cause analysis to identify the problem and increase velocity.

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.

A development team wants to receive better customer feedback during product reviews.

What should the team do?

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

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

• 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.