What measure does NOT provide relevant or useful information about a team’s ability to deliver value to the user/customer in the future?
(choose the best answer)
A. User/customer satisfaction trends.
B. Story points delivered trends.
C. Consistent achievement of Sprint Goals.
D. Technical debt trends.
Which of the following stances would make an agile initiative easier to approach?
(choose the best answer)
A. “Stakeholders are the best judges of value delivered.”
B. “Unexpected things will happen. If we learn from them, it is acceptable.”
C. “I dislike surprises; they are a sign someone has not done their homework.”
D. “Managing to the plan is the mark of a great project manager.”
E. “Successful projects finish on-time, on-budget, and delivered the agreed-upon features.”
F. “Projects fail because people lack initiative and do not take ownership.”
G. “Most projects fail because they did not focus enough on planning.”
H. “We value predictability above everything.”
You want to improve your product’s time to market. Which of the following practices might help you achieve this goal?
(choose the best answer)
A. Reduce the number of features in each release.
B. Commit team members to only one team.
C. Adopt continuous integration practices.
D. Co-locate team members.
E. All of the above.
You have more ideas for new products than you have money to invest. What should you do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Rank proposals by market potential (Unrealized Value) and fully fund as many as you can.
B. Invest in all of them, but at proportionally lower amounts, and see how they all perform.
C. Invest in the proposals that have the highest projected Current Value for the next year.
D. Fund small experiments to test the proposed ideas and assumptions, then evaluate results.
You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to you that many people, both inside and outside the Scrum Team, expect close involvement in the decisions that you, as a Product Owner, are accountable for.
As a result, you find that it takes too long to make decisions. Which of the following are reasonable options you could take?
(choose the best three answers)
A. Create and share a delegation board that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility.
B. Allow other members of the Scrum Team and stakeholders to continue making decisions they are not accountable for; documenting which decisions do not deliver the intended value.
C. Demonstrate, with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customer.
D. Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company’s understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur.
E. Start making all the decisions without consulting the others who have expressed interest.
Your product’s nearest competitor has lower market share, but has higher customer satisfaction, though they lack some key features of your product. You are losing market share to them as customers discover them. They are able to release 3 times faster than you, which is helping them to win customers. What should you do first in response?
(choose the best answer)
A. Add features to your next release that you think will retain and win customers.
B. Lower your product’s price to make it more attractive to new and existing customers.
C. Improve your time-to-market and rate of innovation to improve your responsiveness.
D. Find new markets for your product that your competitor is not yet in.
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