Answering: “Commitment is essential to achieve the benefits of Scrum. What actions demonstrate the commitment of Scrum Team members?”

Doing your best work and helping teammates are how Scrum Team members show commitment. Working late or always delivering the full forecast are not what commitment means in Scrum.

Exam Question

Commitment is essential to achieve the benefits of Scrum. What actions demonstrate the commitment of Scrum Team members?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Do your best work.
B. Help your fellow Scrum Team members.
C. Work late.
D. Always deliver the items in the Sprint forecast.

Correct Answer

A and B.

Why This Is the Correct Answer

The Scrum Guide describes commitment this way: “The Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other.” Doing your best work is commitment to the goals. Helping fellow team members is commitment to each other, and it is how a cross-functional team gets the Sprint Goal done together. Commitment in Scrum is about dedication and quality, not heroics. The Sprint Backlog is a forecast made under uncertainty, so a committed team can still finish less than it planned when it learns something new during the Sprint.

Why the Other Options Are Wrong

C. Work late. Overtime is not a measure of commitment. Regular long hours break sustainable pace and hide planning problems.

D. Always deliver the items in the Sprint forecast. A forecast is not a promise. The team commits to the Sprint Goal, and scope may be renegotiated with the Product Owner as more is learned.

Exam Tip

Exam options that equate commitment with overtime or with delivering every forecast item are traps. Commitment is to goals and teammates, not to a fixed scope.

Key Takeaways

• Commitment means working toward goals and supporting each other.
• The Sprint Backlog is a forecast, not a contract.
• Heroics and overtime are not signs of commitment.