During a Sprint Review, the Product Owner determines that she is going to release the current Increment to production. The stakeholders ask to stop the Sprint to react more quickly to the user feedback that is expected after this release. The Product Owner prefers to continue the Sprint to make progress with the next release. You facilitate a discussion on how to proceed. What are two acceptable results of this discussion?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Continue sprinting and include the customer feedback in the Product Backlog.
B. Stop sprinting and let the Developers work on new customer requests as they arise.
C. Continue sprinting but shorten the Sprint length to allow for shorter feedback loops.
D. Continue sprinting but allow customer feedback to change the Sprint Goal within the Sprint.

Which statement about the Sprint Goal is incorrect?
(choose the best answer)
A. It is only a forecast and may change within the Sprint as more is learned.
B. If it doesn’t seem achievable, the Developers have the courage to tell the Product Owner.
C. The Product Owner respects the opinions of the Developers about whether they can achieve the Sprint Goal.
D. It helps increase focus.
E. The Scrum Team discusses openly about alternative ways to reach it.
F. The Scrum Team commits to it.

The Scrum team has been using the Daily Scrum to report Sprint progress to the Product Owner, because the Product Owner wants to track what every Developer is working on every day. What is the best thing for the Scrum Master to do?
(choose the best answer)
A. Ask the Product Owner to stop attending the Daily Scrum.
B. Coach the Product Owner and Developers on the purpose of Scrum events and let them figure out how to deal with this situation.
C. Nothing. The Product Owner can continue to track progress at the Daily Scrum.
D. Start attending the Daily Scrum so that whenever the Developers have a conflict with the Product Owner, the Scrum Master can resolve the conflict.

A Scrum Master colleague of yours wants some guidance on what to do in the following situation. During the Daily Scrum, one Scrum Team member, who is a key central figure in the organization, drags on and on about things which actually are interesting but not relevant for the Daily Scrum, day after day. What are two suggestions you offer the Scrum Master?
(choose the best two answers)
A. You suggest coaching the Developers to help them find a way to solve the problem, and own the solution.
B. You contact the team member’s Line Manager and raise this as an impediment to the Manager, and ask that they resolve this matter.
C. You suggest using a timer, to limit the time each person can speak at the Daily Scrum.
D. You suggest passing a token around. The person holding the token has the floor to speak for an allotted amount of time.
E. You suggest taking the person aside and asking them what they believe the key outcomes are for the Daily Scrum. Effectively coaching them to help create focus during the Daily Scrum.

Towards the end of the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner and the Developers have not been able to reach a clear, mutual understanding about the highest order Product Backlog items. Because of this, the Developers could not figure out how many Product Backlog items they could forecast for the upcoming Sprint. The Product Owner did make clear what business objective he is hoping to achieve with this Sprint. Which of the following two actions would you support?
(choose the best two answers)
A. The Developers forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the business objective and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the timebox for the Sprint Planning event is over, they start the Sprint and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint.
B. If all agree they can continue the Sprint Planning meeting as a team past its timebox, until an adequate number of Product Backlog items are well enough understood for the Developers to make a complete forecast. Then start the Sprint.
C. The team splits up and everybody takes as much time as they need to study the Product Backlog items first. The Product Owner should be available to answer individual questions. The group reconvenes when all team members are better prepared and restart the Sprint Planning meeting before the Sprint can start.
D. They discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.

At a Sprint Review meeting, the Product Owner introduces the functionality that is likely to be done over the next Sprints. The Chief Security Officer reminds everyone that through the envisioned functionality, sensitive personal user data will be stored. This might be the subject of external security audits. He reminds everyone of the important non-functional requirements with regards to security. These were not applicable and not considered previously.
What are two good ways the Scrum Team can handle these high-security concerns?
(choose the best two answers)
A. They are discussed, determined, and documented in parallel Sprints to not disturb the actual feature development. Once analyzed, they should be applied to the work already done before further feature development can continue.
B. They should be handled by a separate, specialist team in a parallel Sprint so they can be specifically resolved through an improved application design without hindering functional development.
C. The impact of these security concerns on past AND future work needs to be determined before new Sprints can start. A list of security-related Product Backlog items needs to be passed on to the Product Owner before starting the next Sprint.
D. During the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team assesses how to add these expectations to the Definition of Done so every future Increment will live up to these requirements. If needed they can work with external specialists to better understand the requirements.
E. They are added to the Product Backlog and addressed throughout the next Sprints, combined with creating the business functionality in those Sprints, no matter how small that business functionality.