Managing products with agility
Objective 3 of Professional Scrum Master I, worth 33.33% of the exam.
- Share of the exam
- 33.33%
- Questions in a real sitting
- roughly 27 of 80
- Questions in this bank
- 56
- Signed for by a person
- 0
- Machine-checked only
- 56
Partly checked. None of the 56 questions here has been read against the cited source by a person. 56 questions have been checked against their cited clause by an automated pass — which is not the same thing, and is not a signature.
Only questions a person has signed for are used in mock exams here. That is the whole difference between the two kinds of checking above.
How these questions are written — where each question comes from, what the verification ledger records, and what happens when one is found wrong.
What this objective covers
The 56 questions written for this objective cite 16 Scrum Guide sections (Commitment: Definition of Done, Commitment: Product Goal, Commitment: Sprint Goal, Increment, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Scrum Artifacts, Scrum Events, Scrum Master, Scrum Team, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, The Sprint, Topic One: Why is this Sprint valuable?, Topic Two: What can be Done this Sprint?, Transparency).
They break down as 48 single-answer questions and 8 choose-several questions.
Lessons in this objective
The objective cut into the pieces the blueprint declares. Each one has the material written out and the questions that test it.
- Product value and how it is measured
- Working with stakeholders and customers
- Managing and ordering the Product Backlog
- Forecasting and release planning
Drill this objective
The trainer can run a short practice set drawn from this objective alone, which is what the weight column above is for: revise the heavy objectives first.
Practise Managing products with agility
Questions on this objective (page 1 of 3)
- A portfolio manager has drawn up a spreadsheet ranking every requested feature by projected revenue and tells the Scrum Team to build them in that order. The Product Owner believes two of the top five items will not be used by the customers she has spoken to. Who is accountable for maximising the value of the product? machine-checked
- It is the last afternoon of the Sprint. Three of the eight selected items are coded and demonstrable on a laptop, but they have not been through the automated regression suite the Definition of Done requires. The Product Owner suggests showing them at tomorrow's Sprint Review anyway, marked as "pending test". What does Scrum say? machine-checked
- A new Scrum Master is asked by a director where in Scrum the organisation gets to see whether the last four weeks of work were worth anything, and what should change as a result. Which event is she describing? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team spent a Sprint building a bulk-import feature. It meets the Definition of Done, it is usable, and it was released on day nine. At the Sprint Review the stakeholders explain that since the Sprint began their largest customer has moved to a different data format, and nobody will use the feature. What does Scrum say about this Sprint, and what happens now? machine-checked
- A delivery manager introduces a quarterly target: every Scrum Team must raise its velocity by fifteen per cent, and team performance reviews will cite the number. Within two Sprints the team's story point totals have risen and no more working software is reaching users than before. What is the most accurate statement about this measure? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team is agreeing what it will actually put in front of stakeholders at the end of each Sprint. Which TWO of the following statements about the Increment are true in Scrum? machine-checked
- On day six of a two-week Sprint, a Done item fixes a checkout bug that has been costing sales daily. The Product Owner wants it in production this afternoon. A release manager objects that nothing ships before it has been shown at the Sprint Review on day ten. Who is right? machine-checked
- A Product Owner covering three markets asks a business analyst to write and order the Product Backlog items for one of them. Six weeks later the ordering for that market has drifted away from the Product Goal and stakeholders complain. Who is accountable, and was the delegation allowed? machine-checked
- A monthly governance board reviews the Product Backlog ordering and reorders the top ten items to match departmental commitments. The Product Owner is invited but does not have a vote. What should the Scrum Master help the organisation see? machine-checked
- A Scrum Team has been working toward a Product Goal of opening its service to self-registration. Halfway through, the Product Owner adds a second long-term objective — a partner API — and asks the team to pursue both at once. What does Scrum say about this? machine-checked
- A programme office asks a Scrum Team to submit a burn-up chart each Sprint and wants to use the trend line to commit externally to a delivery date nine months out. Which TWO statements reflect Scrum's position on forecasting practices like this? machine-checked
- After a Sprint whose Increment turned out to be of little use to anyone, two Developers tell the Scrum Master that value is not their concern — they build what the Product Owner puts in front of them, and she is the one accountable for value. How should the Scrum Master respond? machine-checked
- To keep a steering report looking healthy, a manager asks the Developers to mark items as done when the code is merged and to record the remaining test work as separate items in a later Sprint. Reported completion rises to ninety-five per cent. What is the effect in Scrum terms? machine-checked
- At Sprint Planning the Developers open the top of the Product Backlog and start pulling items until their capacity is used up. Nobody has said what the Sprint is for. The Scrum Master intervenes. What is missing, and whose part is it? machine-checked
- A marketing director wants to know when a particular capability will arrive and asks the Scrum Master to set up a standing call with two Developers so she can "stay close to the build". Three other stakeholders have asked for something similar. Who in Scrum represents what these stakeholders need? machine-checked
- On day four of a two-week Sprint a stakeholder stops a Developer in the corridor and asks for a "two-line change" to a screen the team is working on right now. A team-mate later says all stakeholder contact must go through the Product Owner and the Developer should never have taken the conversation. What is accurate? machine-checked
- Two key customers say they have not spoken to anyone on the Scrum Team in four months. A programme office requires every request and every question to be filed on a form it triages monthly, and the Product Owner admits she is ordering the Product Backlog from second-hand summaries. What does Scrum make the Scrum Master's job here? machine-checked
- Before a new product's first Sprint Review, a governance lead asks the Scrum Master to circulate an acceptance sheet so attending stakeholders can formally sign the Increment off, and asks that stakeholder questions be held until the last ten minutes so the walkthrough runs cleanly. How should the Scrum Master respond? machine-checked
- At a Sprint Review a stakeholder proposes an integration with his reporting tool. Two Developers say it looks like a week of work, the head of sales says it should go straight to the top, and the Scrum Master is asked to write the decision down. Who decides whether the integration enters the Product Backlog and where it sits? machine-checked
- Two key stakeholders enjoyed the Sprint Review and ask the Scrum Master whether they may also join the Sprint Retrospective — they have ideas about how the team could work faster and would like to help. What is the accurate position? machine-checked
Practise Managing products with agility
The other objectives in Professional Scrum Master I
- 1. Understanding and applying the Scrum framework — 33.33% of the exam
- 2. Developing people and teams — 33.33% of the exam