Answering: “You manage a product development organization and have several agile teams working on one product. How can you find out which team is performing the best?”

You manage a product development organization and have several agile teams working on one product. How can you find out which team is performing the best?
(choose the best answer)
A. Comparing team performance often leads to unhealthy behaviors. Instead, focus on identifying and eliminating impediments that hinder team performance.
B. You need to normalize the estimates across the Scrum Teams and based on that create a balanced scorecard.
C. You need to look at several trends of different measures such as velocity, defects, and technical debt to get a picture of how the team is performing.
D. The one with the highest velocity is performing the best.

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Answering: “You manage a development organization. The Scrum Master of one of the Scrum Teams you are responsible for requests that you only communicate with the team through her. What do you do?”

You manage a development organization. The Scrum Master of one of the Scrum Teams you are responsible for requests that you only communicate with the team through her. What do you do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Agree to her request yet indicate that there may be occasions where you may still communicate directly with the Scrum Team. As a leader it’s your responsibility to help the team retain focus.
B. Don’t agree to her request. Explain that management holds you accountable for the Scrum Team’s results, and that you need access to the team to fulfill your responsibilities.

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Answering: “You manage a development organization. A member of one of your Scrum Teams keeps being interrupted by the “Operations Group”, due to his domain expertise on a legacy application that is critically important to another part of your organization. The Scrum Team has approached you to help them fix this issue. What can you do to help them?”

You manage a development organization. A member of one of your Scrum Teams keeps being interrupted by the “Operations Group”, due to his domain expertise on a legacy application that is critically important to another part of your organization. The Scrum Team has approached you to help them fix this issue. What can you do to help them?
(choose the best answer)
A. Work with the Scrum Team to help transfer the knowledge to another individual outside the Scrum Team for future occurrences.
B. Talk to the Product Owner and let them deal with the situation.
C. Send someone from the team to work with the Operations Group to avoid interruptions.
D. Explain that the Operations work is important and ask them to find a way to accommodate the work.

Answering: “You manage a development organization. A member of one of your Scrum Teams keeps being interrupted by the “Operations Group”, due to his domain expertise on a legacy application that is critically important to another part of your organization. The Scrum Team has approached you to help them fix this issue. What can you do to help them?” Read More »

Answering: “You are a Product Owner. The Developers are close to the end of a Sprint and asks you for 3 extra days to complete their work. They feel that if they do not get the extra time they might look bad in front of stakeholders, who are already skeptical of using an agile approach. What should you do?”

You are a Product Owner. The Developers are close to the end of a Sprint and asks you for 3 extra days to complete their work. They feel that if they do not get the extra time they might look bad in front of stakeholders, who are already skeptical of using an agile approach. What should you do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Ask the Developers to commit to what was agreed and find a solution for the problem.
B. Ask the Developers to work longer hours to meet their goal.
C. Cut back on testing, or leave some items incomplete, so long as the Developers can “substantially meet” their goal.
D. Agree to extend the Sprint but ask the team to be more realistic when they plan Sprints in the future.
E. Do not extend the Sprint and stick to the original time-box. Work with the stakeholders to explain why transparency and openness are important.

Answering: “You are a Product Owner. The Developers are close to the end of a Sprint and asks you for 3 extra days to complete their work. They feel that if they do not get the extra time they might look bad in front of stakeholders, who are already skeptical of using an agile approach. What should you do?” Read More »

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