PSM-II Practice Questions

A.  

The Scrum Team has not used the past Sprint Retrospectives effectively to inspect and adapt.

B.  

The Development Team has not been paying enough attention to technical quality.

C.  

The Development Team and the Product Owner are not having conversations around technical debt.

D.  

The Scrum Master has not ensured that the Scrum Team is transparent.

E.  

All of the above.

F.  

None of the above.

A.  

Writing User Stories

B.  

Ordering the Product Backlog

C.  

Representing stakeholders to the Scrum team

D.  

Attending the Sprint Review

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

Requirements developer.

B.  

Value optimizer.

C.  

Team leader.

D.  

Go-between between development team and stakeholders.

A.  

It will be inspected at the Sprint Review and if it is acceptable by the stakeholders then include it in the Increment.

B.  

Do not include the item in the Increment for the Sprint.

C.  

Split the item and add the estimation of the completed work to the current Sprint so not to impact the velocity and add the ‘undone’ work to the next Sprint.

D.  

Estimate the remaining work needed to make it ‘done’ and add it to the Product Backlog for the Product Owner to decide what to do with it.

A.  

He explains how a team uses the velocity of a Sprint primarily to forecast work for the next Sprint, not to perfectly predict future productivity. He refers the director to the Product Owner for all information concerning the progress of development.

B.  

He informs the director of organizational impediments he is aware of that prevent the team from being more productive. He suggests collaborating with him on how to remove these impediments.

C.  

He educates his director how it is part of a team’s self-organization to improve velocity. He invites the director to the next Sprint Retrospective to brainstorm on how they can improve.

D.  

He helps the director understand that it typically takes a few Sprints for a team to gradually increase the velocity up to the level expected. Meanwhile he presents this to the team as a challenge and a company goal, leaving it however up to them to figure out exactly how to achieve this.

E.  

He tells the director that this is not his responsibility in Scrum. He tells the director to work with the Product Owner to check whether the estimates on the Product Backlog are being respected during implementation.

A.  

How often team membership changes and the size of the Development Team.

B.  

Having consistent Sprint length across all Scrum Teams.

C.  

The level of expertise over the technology to be used, ability to release an Increment to the end users, and the risk of being disconnected from the stakeholders.