Scrum Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) : PAL-I

What is an important responsibility of an Agile leader?
(Choose the best answer)

• A. Hire team members and organize teams.
• B. Prioritize work; make sure that high-value work gets done.
• C. Ensure teams have what they need to succeed and help them to remove impediments.
• D. Set Sprint Goals and make sure the team achieves those goals.
• E. Set priorities, plan work, monitor progress, and take corrective action.

Scrum Teams are most effective when: (choose the best answer)

• A. They consist of team members who work only on one product and team at a time, so that they can focus.
• B. They consist of team members who have broad enough skills to do many kinds of work, but who are not deeply specialized in any one area.
• C. They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.
• D. They consist of team members who are shared across multiple initiatives at a time, since then they can take advantage of time otherwise spent waiting to do productive work.

You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a
"production-like" test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it.
Current processes stipulate that expensive "production-like" test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. Earlier access is not possible since other teams are using the pre-production test environments. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?
(Choose the two best answers)

• A. They should add additional time to the release schedule to account for the additional testing and rework that the team will have to do when they find defects late in the delivery cycle. Set stakeholder expectations accordingly.
• B. You help them find someone who can help them with setting up testing and simulation software that can partially emulate the "production-like" test environment.
• C. Tell the teams to do their best with their current test environment, simulating production as much as possible. Then release the product and let the customer determine if the product can scale.
• D. You work with the teams to develop a business case for procuring or gaining access to the necessary environment for validating the scalability of the product.

You manage a development organization. One of your Scrum Teams is continually interrupted by unplanned work related to production incidents for a legacy application unrelated to their product. A few team members have historical knowledge of the legacy application. How should the Scrum Team manage the interruption and unplanned work? (choose the best answer)

• A. The Scrum Team should fit the work in, working overtime if that is what it takes.
• B. New development work should be put on hold until the production support work is completed; supporting existing applications is always more important than new work.
• C. Work with the Scrum Team to help transfer the knowledge to other teams better aligned with the application support mission.

Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity? (choose the best answer)

• A. Prevent changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.
• B. Keep high value features high in the Product Backlog.
• C. Run the Daily Scrum.
• D. Ensure the meetings start and end at the proper time.
• E. Facilitate Scrum Team decisions and remove impediments.