Answering: “What is true about the Sprint Goal if the Developers reserve capacity for unplanned work during an upcoming sprint?”

What is true about the Sprint Goal if the Developers reserve capacity for unplanned work during an upcoming sprint?
(choose the best answer)
A. The Sprint Goal becomes more important. It can help the Developers maintain their focus as new Product Backlog items are brought into the Sprint Backlog.
B. The Developers should never reserve any capacity for unplanned work. It is inefficient if the Developer’s forecast does not take into account all of their capacity.
C. The Sprint Goal no longer helps the Developers. They do not know what they will be working on.

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Answering: “What’s the best use for the Work Item Aging metric?”

What’s the best use for the Work Item Aging metric?
(choose the best two answers)
A. To help the team inspect and adapt their Sprint in the Daily Scrum
B. To help the team inspect and adapt their process and definition of Workflow in their Retrospective.
C. To influence the team’s SLE.
D. As an indicator of the Work Item size.
E. As a leading indicator to the length of feedback loop for that Work Item.

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Answering: “When the Developers limit Work in Progress (WIP) inside a Sprint, what would you expect to observe?”

When the Developers limit Work in Progress (WIP) inside a Sprint, what would you expect to observe?
(choose the best three answers)
A. The Developers would stop beginning work, and instead, start finishing work.
B. The amount of work done by the end of the Sprint would be reduced.
C. Self-management would be strengthened as a result of increased transparency.
D. Increased collaboration/swarming between the Developers.

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Answering: “In which of these situations should the Scrum Team adjust their Work in Progress (WIP) Limits?”

In which of these situations should the Scrum Team adjust their Work in Progress (WIP) Limits?
(choose the best answer)
A. When there is unplanned urgent work that emerges during the Sprint.
B. When they see that the average story size they are working on is growing.
C. When they have extra capacity during the Sprint and want to start some new work items from the Sprint Backlog.
D. When they want to improve their cycle time, flow, and focus.

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Answering: “The Cycle Time metric for a certain Work Item cannot be used:”

The Cycle Time metric for a certain Work Item cannot be used:
(choose the best two answers)
A. To influence the team’s SLE.
B. To help the team inspect and adapt their process.
C. As a leading indicator to the length of feedback loop for that Work Item.
D. As a lagging indicator to the length of feedback loop for that Work Item.
E. To help the Developers inspect and adapt their Sprint in the Daily Scrum.

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