An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.
What should the agile team do next?

1. A. Ensure that the product owner reviews the acceptance criteria for delivered user stories.
2. B. Augment the quality assurance and continuous integration processes for delivery.
3. C. Approach the relevant developers and testers regarding quality issues in upcoming iterations.
4. D. Ask the product owner to define the entire scope of delivery two to three iterations in advance.

Correct Answer: A

An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action.
What should the team do?

1. A. Collaborate with the product owner to reprioritize the product backlog, thus ensuring that more features will be completed before the release.
2. B. Ask the team lead to calculate the team's target velocity according to the project plan, and assign additional resources to increase capacity.
3. C. Focus on velocity and schedule concerns during the retrospective to inspect, adapt, and improve the process and plans.
4. D. Reestimate the backlog items from the release, ensuring that contingency is included to set stakeholder expectations.

Correct Answer: A

An agile team notices that the same problem continue to occur during multiple iterations. Several team members have suggestions to fix the problem.
What is the proper agile approach to handle this?

1. A. Hold frequent retrospectives and share the responsibility for making changes
2. B. Understand that this is the nature of innovative business and strive 10 work harder
3. C. Collect team member feedback and discuss them privately with the product owner
4. D. Conduct a team-bulking exercise to increase trust among the team members

Correct Answer: A

A project team realizes that an important task on the iteration backlog will take more time than originally estimated. What should the project team do?

1. A. Continue working on the task until it is completed.
2. B. Remove the task owner from the project team.
3. C. Add resources to reduce time to task completion.
4. D. Stop working on the task and include it in the next iteration.

Correct Answer: D

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI. What should the team do?

1. A. Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI.
2. B. Replace some team members to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI.
3. C. Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI.
4. D. Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan.

Correct Answer: C