10 Questions
A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations. What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?
Discuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting
Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint's goals. What should the scrum master do next?
Have the sprint proceed as planned
During the iteration planning of a newly on boarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks need to implement the user stories?
Self-organize
A project's first iteration contains item A, and its second iteration contains item B. The first iteration is behind schedule, which will impact the second iteration. Since items A and B are similar, a team member suggests beginning the design of item B. What should the agile practitioner do?
Escalate the issue to the customer, and obtain their approval before starting the design of item B
An Agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released. What should the agile team do?
Continuously work with the product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews
During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed. What was the determining factor?
Size and priority
What should a scrum master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?
Privately offer the team member encouragement to meet task commitments
A newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment for transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments. Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future. Over time, what will be the result of this approach?
Specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, and time-based (SMART) goals
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 be the agile project leader do?
Privately work with the new member to address any impediments
During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories. What should the scrum master do?
Create a collaborative team environment so that the team can explore a solution together
Test your knowledge on Agile estimation, sprint planning strategies, task assignment, backlog management, and dealing with change requests in Agile environments. Learn about best practices to improve accuracy in estimating product backlog items and meeting sprint goals.
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