Hiro Takashimya

The Scrum team has been using the Daily Scrum to report Sprint progress to the Product Owner, because the Product Owner wants to track what every Developer is working on every day. What is the best thing for the Scrum Master to do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Ask the Product Owner to stop attending the Daily Scrum.
B. Coach the Product Owner and Developers on the purpose of Scrum events and let them figure out how to deal with this situation.
C. Nothing. The Product Owner can continue to track progress at the Daily Scrum.
D. Start attending the Daily Scrum so that whenever the Developers have a conflict with the Product Owner, the Scrum Master can resolve the conflict.

At the seventh Sprint Review, the stakeholders seem disappointed and angry. When asked about it, they say the product being built will not meet their needs and will cost more than they anticipated spending. What factors may have led to this?
(choose the best three answers)
A. The Product Owner has not been interacting frequently with the stakeholders and kept them aware of the progress of the project.
B. The stakeholders haven’t been using the Sprint Reviews to actively engage, and inspect and evaluate progress.
C. Changes to the project plan were not adequately documented and shared. The change request procedure was not diligently followed.
D. The stakeholders were not allowed to enter the development area, or be present at the Daily Scrum.
E. The Scrum Master has not ensured transparency.
F. The Project Management Office (PMO) and its project managers have not been engaged adequately causing the project plan to become inaccurate.

You are the Scrum Master for four teams working from the same Product Backlog. Several of the developers come to you complaining that work identified for the upcoming two Sprints will require full time commitment from Phil, an external specialist. As the Scrum Master what should you do to solve this upcoming problem?
(choose the best answer)
A. Prepare the Sprint Backlogs each day for the teams so Phil can spend some time in each team.
B. Allocate Phil to one team per Sprint, so that over four Sprints every team will have had the support it requires.
C. Consult with the Scrum Teams on how they want to handle this problem, and help them implement their preferred solution.
D. Ask Phil for a plan to hire and train additional people in his domain, and in the meantime work with the Product Owner and the Scrum Teams to re-prioritize the work so that tasks not depending on Phil can be done first.

You have just been hired as a Scrum Master by a company new to Scrum. The company wants to use Scrum to build a new product that was conceived by the product management department. You will be the Scrum Master of two new teams that will build a first version of the product. The product management department assigns two new Product Owners, but wants more advice about the required participation with the new Scrum Teams. Which two suggestions would you offer?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Each Scrum Team has a separate Product Backlog, holding each team’s assigned requirements.
B. A single Product Backlog should be maintained holding all requirements for the new product.
C. Two Product Owners are necessary, one for each Scrum Team. They report to an overarching chief Product Owner.
D. Having one Product Owner will improve the clarity of accountability to the teams and to the product management department.

A Scrum Team is struggling over the fact that not all Developers work full time and that other Developers regularly work from home. To solve the difficulties in aligning daily, at the Sprint Retrospective two Developers suggest having the Daily Scrum every three days, when everyone is in the office.
What would be three key concerns if the frequency of the Daily Scrum were to be lowered?
(choose the best three answers)
A. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly which might impact productivity and progress.
B. Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced. Re-aligning is bound to become even more difficult.
C. Less progress information will be shared causing the plan for the Sprint to become inaccurate and transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal is reduced.
D. The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the Gantt chart properly, thereby obscuring the Scrum Master’s tracking of Sprint progress.
E. The Product Owner cannot accurately report progress about the state of the forecasted work to the stakeholders.

You are a Scrum Master helping to establish five Scrum Teams that will be building a product. You discuss with them the high level of integration that the product Increment will require by the end of their first Sprint. It is a highly anticipated product, both by consumers and by the organization. Of the options raised by the future Scrum Team members, which option do you encourage?
(choose the best answer)
A. Each Scrum Team delivers done Increments in its own area of responsibility. Upon functional acceptance at the Sprint Review, the code is isolated for future stabilization. The release date is adjusted according to the expected work and time of such integration phase.
B. Each team provides a separate Increment with the functionality added by the individual team. The Sprint Review is used to identify the work needed to integrate with the other Scrum Teams. This work is then added to the Product Backlog.
C. All Scrum Teams agree on a shared Definition of Done that describes all work needed to deliver an Increment that is the integrated sum of the work from all Scrum Teams.
D. In the first Sprint, integration is less important. The goal is to deliver business value. Functionality that is not integrated with the work of other Scrum Teams by the end of a Sprint is still reviewed to assess its potential business value. It can still be released at the Product Owner’s discretion, and silent consent of the stakeholders.