Answering: “The purpose of a Nexus Sprint Retrospective is to:”

The purpose of a Nexus Sprint Retrospective is to:
(choose the best two answers)
A. Provide a forum for management to see how the Nexus is performing.
B. Enable bottom-up intelligence to improve how the Scrum Teams in a Nexus are working together.
C. Provide a single meeting to inspect and adapt how all Scrum Teams work together.
D. Allow for inspection and adaption of both individual Scrum Teams and a Nexus.

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Answering: “Management has planned for over two hundred developers to work on a new, critical product. Prior to the developers being formed into teams and beginning to develop the software, an overall architecture and cohesive design is needed. Which of the following approaches employs Scrum and Agile principles most effectively?”

Management has planned for over two hundred developers to work on a new, critical product. Prior to the developers being formed into teams and beginning to develop the software, an overall architecture and cohesive design is needed. Which of the following approaches employs Scrum and Agile principles most effectively?
(choose the best answer)
A. Form a cross-cutting team of architects and designers. This team will serve as consultants to the other Scrum Teams as integration questions arise during development.
B. Form one or two teams of developers to create a foundation that represents the non-functional requirements and also several high value functions. Then increase the number of teams using a shared architecture.
C. Design and instantiate an appropriate Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) before beginning feature development. Train the Developers on how to consume the shared SOA in their feature development. Then begin feature development Sprints.
D. Have the designers and developers create an appropriate design and architecture. Include design models that the

Answering: “Management has planned for over two hundred developers to work on a new, critical product. Prior to the developers being formed into teams and beginning to develop the software, an overall architecture and cohesive design is needed. Which of the following approaches employs Scrum and Agile principles most effectively?” Read More »

Answering: “In the first part of Nexus Sprint Planning, representatives from each of the 9-member Scrum Teams identify many dependencies. This makes it hard for them to choose the work they could pull into their individual teams for the next Sprint. No matter how they reorganize the Product Backlog items, they continually find more or new dependencies. There are especially two teams that have a lot of dependent work. What would you recommend to the two teams that are continually dependent on each other to help them manage their work?”

[color=#6495ed]Scenario C: Dependencies and Product Backlog Items[/color]
In the first part of Nexus Sprint Planning, representatives from each of the 9-member Scrum Teams identify many dependencies. This makes it hard for them to choose the work they could pull into their individual teams for the next Sprint. No matter how they reorganize the Product Backlog items, they continually find more or new dependencies. There are especially two teams that have a lot of dependent work.
What would you recommend to the two teams that are continually dependent on each other to help them manage their work?
(choose the best answer)
A. Merge the two Scrum Teams together.
B. The Nexus Integration Team should be responsible for integrating the work of these two Scrum Teams.
C. Reorganize these two Scrum Teams so that one is responsible for development and one is responsible for integration.
D. Ensure the appropriate representatives from both teams are present during Cross-Team Refinement.

Answering: “In the first part of Nexus Sprint Planning, representatives from each of the 9-member Scrum Teams identify many dependencies. This makes it hard for them to choose the work they could pull into their individual teams for the next Sprint. No matter how they reorganize the Product Backlog items, they continually find more or new dependencies. There are especially two teams that have a lot of dependent work. What would you recommend to the two teams that are continually dependent on each other to help them manage their work?” Read More »

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