You are a Product Owner for a product with a rapidly declining customer base. One very influential stakeholder emphasizes the need to add more features to the product – to focus on capturing new customers.
Despite initial data that indicates the decline is due to a shrinking market opportunity, rather than a lack of new features, an influential stakeholder insists on adding more features to attract new customers. The influential stakeholder also says that if you do not add new features you risk losing your most profitable customer.
Which two of the following actions might you take?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Acknowledge the views of the influential stakeholder but decline to add more features to the the product.
B. Collaborate with other stakeholders and use a voting system to decide which options should be considered.
C. Agree with the stakeholder and add features to the Product Backlog as it might increase your customer base.
D. Collaborate with the stakeholder to run a small experiment to validate their opinion.

Which of the following are advantages of a Product Goal that is well-understood by the Scrum Team?
(choose the best three answers)
A. It helps the Scrum Team keep focus and they can check any decision against it.
B. It helps the Scrum Team to forecast when the entire Product Backlog will be delivered.
C. It makes it easier to inspect incremental progress at the Sprint Review.
D. A Product Goal is not mandatory in Scrum.
E. It provides overall direction so Sprints will feel less like isolated pieces of work.

Sharing people with unique skills across multiple teams will likely result in which of the following conditions?
(choose the best answer)
A. Teams may wait more often, impeding the delivery of value.
B. Costs are lower because expensive resources are shared.
C. Teams do not have to develop deep technical skills.
D. More work gets done because people are better utilized.

What percent of the time should a Product Owner dedicate to the Scrum Team?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Enough time to avoid the waste that is created by delaying answers to the Developers.
B. Enough time to ensure that the product Increment is valuable and useful.
C. 40%, or more of the stakeholders agree.
D. Just enough time to keep the Developers from complaining.
E. As much as the stakeholders want to budget. Business analysts take over the role the rest of the time.
F. 100%.

Which of the following are the Developers NOT responsible for?
(choose the best answer)
A. Monitoring and increasing productivity.
B. Planning how to meet a Sprint Goal.
C. Monitoring and optimizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal at least daily.
D. Selecting the Product Owner.
E. Resolving internal conflicts.

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.