You have just been hired as a Scrum Master by a company new to Scrum. The company wants to use Scrum to build a new product that was conceived by the product management department. You will be the Scrum Master of two new teams that will build a first version of the product. The product management department assigns two new Product Owners, but wants more advice about the required participation with the new Scrum Teams. Which two suggestions would you offer?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Each Scrum Team has a separate Product Backlog, holding each team’s assigned requirements.
B. A single Product Backlog should be maintained holding all requirements for the new product.
C. Two Product Owners are necessary, one for each Scrum Team. They report to an overarching chief Product Owner.
D. Having one Product Owner will improve the clarity of accountability to the teams and to the product management department.

One of the Developers is always missing the Daily Scrum. She feels that as long as he is doing his job well it doesn’t matter whether she attends or not. The other Developers are not doing anything about it. You are the Scrum Master of this team, how would you respond to this situation.
(choose the best answer)
A. Teach the Developers how to deal with this situation by attending the Daily Scrum yourself.
B. Talk to the Developer who is missing the Daily Scrum and ask her to always attend the Daily Scrum.
C. Ask the Developers, what value they get by having the Daily Scrum with all team members present and what might go wrong if all Developers do not attend.
D. You do not intervene. The Developers own the Daily Scrum, so they should deal with any issues with attendance.

A Scrum Team has been working together for nine Sprints. A new Product Owner comes in, unsure about his responsibilities. As the Scrum Master you have observed how the functional and business insights of the Developers have grown over the past Sprints. The Product Owner however is relatively new to the company and to the product. What are two activities you would direct the new Product Owner towards focusing on?
(choose the best two answers)
A. You advise the Product Owner to start building a good relationship with the stakeholders of the product. On-going interaction with them is important to regularly align with changing organizational or market expectations. The Product Owner is also expected to invite the best-placed stakeholders to the Sprint Review.
B. You inform the Product Owner that, in today’s highly competitive markets, it is important that the Developers are updated on changing business priorities on a daily basis. It is why Scrum has this daily meeting. At this Daily Scrum the Developers can adapt to the changes in scope without delay.
C. You tell the Product Owner to make sure that there are no ambiguities or possible misunderstandings in the items on the Product Backlog when they are handed over to the Scrum Team. This is best done by capturing the functional requirements during an analysis phase, resulting in documents that are considered as the working product of such analysis Sprints.
D. You advise the Product Owner to rely on others in the Scrum Team and the stakeholders to formulate the Product Backlog, as they are the ones that are up to speed. By questioning them and working with them the Product Owner will quickly be most productive.

A multi-national company is using Scrum for product development of their five major products. What are two good alternatives for how many Product Owners the company should use for these five products?
(choose the best two answers)
A. There is one Product Owner for each product (so five in total). Each Product Owner may delegate to others for specific value, capabilities, and functionality within their product. The five Product Owners share and align work via Product Backlog.
B. There are as many Product Owners as are needed to analyze, document and explain expectations and requirements with all Development Teams.
C. There is one Product Owner for all five products. This person may not delegate work to others for specific value, capabilities, and functionality, given these are all the Product Owner’s individual responsibility.
D. There is one Product Owner responsible for all five products. This person may delegate work to others for specific value, capabilities, and functionality within each product in order to scale his role.

Which two statements are true about the Sprint Goal?
(choose the best two answers)
A. The use of Sprint Goals is optional in the Scrum Framework.
B. Sprint Goals give the Developers flexibility and creativity on how to implement functionality during the Sprint.
C. During the Sprint Planning, the Scrum Team crafts a Sprint Goal based on an objective that the Product Owner would like to achieve that Sprint.
D. Sprint Goals often change during the Sprint as new insights emerge during the work.

A Scrum Team is struggling over the fact that not all Developers work full time and that other Developers regularly work from home. To solve the difficulties in aligning daily, at the Sprint Retrospective two Developers suggest having the Daily Scrum every three days, when everyone is in the office.
What would be three key concerns if the frequency of the Daily Scrum were to be lowered?
(choose the best three answers)
A. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly which might impact productivity and progress.
B. Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are reduced. Re-aligning is bound to become even more difficult.
C. Less progress information will be shared causing the plan for the Sprint to become inaccurate and transparency over progress toward the Sprint Goal is reduced.
D. The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the Gantt chart properly, thereby obscuring the Scrum Master’s tracking of Sprint progress.
E. The Product Owner cannot accurately report progress about the state of the forecasted work to the stakeholders.