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.

True of False: When using an Agile approach, it is both expected and beneficial to receive feedback from customers or stakeholders that results in changes to the plan.
A. True
B. False

Agile teams must balance many different objectives. Which one of the following is most important?
(choose the best answer)
A. Meeting schedule commitments.
B. Improving customer satisfaction.
C. Delivering all “MUST HAVE” requirements.
D. Improving efficiency.
E. Controlling cost.

You manage a product development organization. One of your employees, a subject matter expert and a stakeholder for a product being developed, expresses that he feels that a newly formed and relatively inexperienced Scrum Team lacks critical skills they will need to be successful.
To fill this gap, he recommends replacing some members of the Scrum Team with new members who have better skills in the areas of concern. Based on these conversations, what do you do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Talk to other experts in the subject matter expert’s area of expertise to determine whether the original subject matter expert’s perspective is valid.
B. Recommend that the subject matter expert raise the skills gap concern with the Scrum Team but leave the decision on what to do with the Scrum Team and support them as needed.
C. Hire external consultants to fill the Scrum Team’s skills gap.
D. Work with other team managers to trade people between teams to address the skills shortage.