An agile team often fails to deliver its sprint goal. At a sprint retrospective, the more experienced team members complain that the less experienced team members are working too slowly. This creates tension in the team.
What should the scrum master do to remove this tension?
An agile project manager has noticed their teams declining morale, mistrust, and isolation over the last 6 months of working on a project. What should the agile project manager do to enhance productivity and create a cohesive team culture?
A software company is developing an accounting software system to market to customers. The team has been working on the project for six weeks and has great velocity. One of the major stakeholders approached the scrum master and asked for a bi-weekly status report because they feel they are not being properly updated.
How should the scrum master respond to this request?
A Inform the stakeholder that all updates are provided in the sprint review sessions and encourage them to attend
B. Create and update bi-weekly project status reports for the stakeholder who requested the report.
C. Escalate this to the stakeholder's supervisor because this is an unreasonable request.
D. Ignore the stakeholder's request and continue working on the project as they have been for the past six weeks.
Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint goals What should the scrum master do next?
A business analyst has been assigned to optimize a process to deliver healthcare services to patients in a clinic. In creating a value stream map, what will the business analyst’s key observations include?
A scrum master wants to encourage better collaboration within a collocated team and is coming up with a visualization method for the project. How could the scrum master promote transparency?
An organization is using a predictive approach to managing projects. The executives like to see more deliverables in a short time and require that the milestones be achieved on time.
What value can the organization gain by moving to an iterative approach?
A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?
During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.
What should have been done to avoid this?
During the advanced stages of implementing a complex design, an agile practitioner realizes that the architecture is not scalable for user requirements. The architect suggests a workaround that is minimally adequate but may cause some performance issues.
What should the agile practitioner do?
TESTED 22 Aug 2025
