Answering: “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?”

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.

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Answering: “Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity?” (PAL I)

Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity?
(choose the best answer)
A. Ensure the meetings start and end at the proper time.
B. Facilitate Scrum Team decisions and remove impediments.
C. Run the Daily Scrum.
D. Keep high value features high in the Product Backlog.
E. Prevent changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

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Answering: “You manage a product development organization. You attend a Sprint Review for one of the Scrum Teams in your organization. The Product Owner explains that the Developers only delivered 5 of the 7 Product Backlog Items they committed to during Sprint Planning, apologizes on behalf of the team, and promises higher productivity in the next Sprint. What do you think about this?”

You manage a product development organization. You attend a Sprint Review for one of the Scrum Teams in your organization. The Product Owner explains that the Developers only delivered 5 of the 7 Product Backlog Items they committed to during Sprint Planning, apologizes on behalf of the team, and promises higher productivity in the next Sprint. What do you think about this?
(choose the best answer)
A. The team should not commit to Product Backlog Items, they should commit to a Sprint Goal.
B. It is at least good that the Product Owner accepts responsibility for her team and commits to improving.
C. The team needs to work on improving their estimation ability.
D. The team obviously has trouble living up to their commitments. Look at the results from the Sprint Retrospective to see what they are doing to improve.

Answering: “You manage a product development organization. You attend a Sprint Review for one of the Scrum Teams in your organization. The Product Owner explains that the Developers only delivered 5 of the 7 Product Backlog Items they committed to during Sprint Planning, apologizes on behalf of the team, and promises higher productivity in the next Sprint. What do you think about this?” Read More »

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