PSM-II Practice Questions

A.  

Bring the Development Team members together and interpret the Definition of Done for them so that there are no future conflicts on interpretation.

B.  

Immediately end the discussion before it becomes worse. Make the decision on what work is needed to make the item ‘done’ and teach the team about the importance of avoiding conflicts.

C.  

Facilitate a session with all members on the Scrum Team to help them resolve the conflict, refine the Definition of Done, and become effective again. Tell the team that conflicts are a natural occurrence and coach them on the value of resolving conflicts.

D.  

Bring the Product Owner to the discussion and have him/her decide the work needed to make the item ‘done.’ It is the Product Owner’s responsibility to manage the Development Team members.

A.  

The Product Owner has not been engaging with sponsors frequently enough and has not been kept aware of the overall progress of the project.

B.  

The sponsors haven’t been using the Sprint Reviews to actively engage, and inspect and evaluate progress.

C.  

The scope changes have not been tracked adequately and the change request process has not been followed properly.

D.  

The stakeholders have not been using the Daily Scrum effectively to track the Development Team’s progress.

E.  

The Scrum Master has not ensured transparency.

F.  

The project plan proposed to the sponsors at the start of the project followed stringently.

A.  

Motivate the Development Team to meet their commitment to the Product Owner.

B.  

Coach the Product Owner that with complex software development, you cannot promise the entire scope that was forecast during Sprint Planning. As more is learned during the Sprint, work may emerge that affects the Sprint Backlog.

C.  

Advise the Product Owner that the Development Team owns the Sprint Backlog and it is up to them to meet their commitments. No one tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.

D.  

Add more people to the Development Team to meet the Product Owner’s expectations.

A.  

Very little change will happen as the vocabulary in Scrum is specifically defined for implementing Scrum.

B.  

The organization may not realize the real benefits of Scrum as there would be no real change on the way the teams work.

C.  

Organizations may feel less stressed as the behaviors would remain familiar to management.

D.  

All answers apply.

A.  

Every Development Team has the abilities to develop functionality from beginning to end throughout all technical layers.

B.  

Each Development Team specializes in one technical layer of the system (e.g. GUI, database, middle tier, interfaces).

A.  

Component teams would have all the skills needed to focus on their specific technical layer.

B.  

Component teams generally have all the skills needed to deliver shippable Increments that add business value.

C.  

Because their productivity is already predictable, they can deliver shippable Increments more quickly than a newly formed team.

D.  

Because they have been working together for some time, there will be less initial disruption than a newly formed team. As they begin working, they will discover what works best and how to move towards cross- functional teams.

E.  

There is less communication overhead than working in feature teams.

A.  

The team lead

B.  

The business analyst

C.  

The project manager

D.  

The Development Team

E.  

The Product Owner

A.  

Respect

B.  

Courage

C.  

Commitment

D.  

Openness

E.  

Focus

F.  

All of the above

A.  

Having enough work for all Development Team members.

B.  

The benefit of Development Teams solving the problem themselves and the ability to produce integrated Increments.

C.  

Maintaining a consistent velocity.

D.  

Hiring additional resources to fill the void in skillset.

A.  

True

B.  

False