Which of the following is NOT true of cross-functional teams?
(choose the best answer)
A. Cross-functional teams encourage team members to step outside their comfort zone to get things done.
B. Cross-functional teams help team members develop deep technical specializations.
C. The team spends less time waiting on people outside the team to get things done.
D. Team members have a greater opportunity to deliver product Increment that delivers value to the users.
E. Team members have more opportunities to grow their skills by learning from others.

Who is accountable for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
(choose the best answer)
A. The Scrum Master.
B. The Product Owner.
C. The Team Lead.
D. The Project Manager.
E. The Developers.
F. All of the above.

True or False: Teams must be co-located to use Scrum.
A. True
B. False

You manage a development organization. You are forming a team to develop a new product, and you need to hire a Product Owner. Based on the recruiters understanding of your needs the following description for the open position has been created:
As a Product Owner, you will manage a Scrum Team, and you will be accountable for:
Clearly expressing Product Backlog Items.
Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions.
Optimizing the value of the work the Scrum Team performs.
Ensuring the Developers understand items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
Creating status reports for the management team.
Keeping stakeholders apprised of progress toward business goals.
What is wrong with this description?
(choose the best answer)
A. A Product Owner should not be creating status reports for the management team. Instead he should focus on making sure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next.
B. A Product Owner should not be ‘managing’ a team; Product Owners guide the team by setting priorities and provide feedback.
C. Both A and B
D. Nothing is wrong with the description, it clearly expresses and encompasses all of the primary responsibilities of a Product Owner.

An organization has many agile teams working on different products. How can managers understand the status of each team?
(choose the best answer)
A. Instruct each team to fill out a common status reporting dashboard to provide information that can be shared with stakeholders.
B. Ask the teams to work together to develop a common way to share their Sprint Goals and what they achieve in each Sprint against those goals.
C. Have the team create a detailed forecast for their work, then track plan versus actuals.
D. Standardize story point estimates across teams so that team velocity can be compared.

You are a manager at an organization that has multiple agile teams working on different products. Which would be the best approach for understanding the status of each team?
(choose the best answer)
A. Create a shared reporting dashboard that the teams can update at an agreed upon frequency so not to interrupt the teams.
B. Ask the teams to work together to develop and agree on a common way to share their Sprint Goals and what they achieve during each Sprint against those goals.
C. Ask the teams to use burn down charts so you can track what was planned versus what was completed.
D. Ask the teams to work together to standardize Story Point estimations so that velocity of each team can be compared.