You manage a product group in an organization. A Scrum Master is concerned with the very low availability of the Product Owner for her team. The Product Owner has subject matter expertise that is very difficult to duplicate or replace, but he has several other important responsibilities as well. The Scrum Master has discussed her concern with the Product Owner, but the Developers are still struggling to deliver value without additional guidance from the Product Owner. The Scrum Master is asking you for some guidance. What is the best way for you to help the Scrum Master?
(choose the best answer)
A. Help the Product Owner’s manager find a different Product Owner, who can dedicate the time needed, and help this new Product Owner come up to speed on the new product as quickly as possible.
B. Offer to work with her, the Product Owner, and his manager, to find a way to ensure that the Product Owner’s participation level is high enough to ensure that value can be delivered by the Scrum Team.
C. Help the Scrum Master to find a delegate who can join the Scrum Team to work with the Product Owner and represent business priorities when the Product Owner cannot be present.
D. Recommend to the Scrum Master that she helps the Developers to do their best, document their decisions, and escalate problems to you.

You manage a product development organization. A Scrum Team comes to you with a request to add two more Developers to the Scrum Team in order to increase their capacity to get work done. You have budget and headcount. The Scrum Team’s case is compelling, and they have a good track record for delivering and making good decisions. In response to the Scrum Team’s request, you decide to:
(choose the best answer)
A. Let the Scrum Team screen candidates, and pass candidates to you to interview and make the final hiring decision.
B. Ask the Scrum Team to write a job description. You will handle the initial screening and pass along passing candidates to the team, who conduct their own interviews and make the final decision.
C. Give the Scrum Team budgetary boundaries, but let them recruit, interview, and hire their own new team members, with the help from a partner in Human Resources.

True or False: When Scrum is implemented correctly, managers are no longer needed.
A. True
B. False

A new agile initiative is being mobilized, and you are the manager tasked with staffing the teams. How do you decide to which team each member should belong?
(choose the best answer)
A. Bring together interested people, discuss product goals, remind teams that they need to balance skills and experience, and let the teams self-organize.
B. Group people together who already know each other from previous teams.
C. Group people together based on which components of the system they are most familiar with.
D. Group people together who have a similar skillset to maximize efficiency and utilization.
E. Assign people to teams in such a way that balance skills, experience and seniority as evenly as possible.

When a Scrum Team fails to deliver a working product increment for several Sprints in a row, who is responsible for resolving this situation?
(choose the best answer)
A. The Developers.
B. The Product Owner.
C. The Team Lead.
D. The Project Manager.
E. The Scrum Team.
F. All of the above.

The stakeholders for a new commercial product cannot reach a consensus about what the product should do, or the customers it should satisfy. If you are the Product Owner, what can you do to help the stakeholders reach consensus?
(choose the best answer)
A. Spend more time with the stakeholders to try to forge a consensus. In the meantime, the Developers can work on the architecture of the product which needs to be done anyway.
B. Without a clear vision for the product, the Scrum Team will be wasting it’s time. They should work on something else while the product vision is being clarified.
C. Run experiments by building and delivering selective aspects of the product to test the market and get feedback on market needs and alternatives.
D. Work with the product sponsor to understand their priorities and reflect those in the ordering of the Product Backlog.