7- PSM II assessment preparation with a LeSS influence (unauthorized and unofficial - at your own risk)

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* 1. From a complexity point of view, what affects the outcome of a sprint the most? [select the three best answers]

Hint, think x-axis and y-axis of the Stacey chart which Stacey himself deprecated:(. See and https://youtu.be/AP3iTrxzejE and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_D._Stacey

skills specifically

level of certainty about the technology

clarity of understanding of the problems we're trying to solve

working relationships specifically

people

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* 2. What are acceptable ways a Scrum Master may work to ensure scrum is understood and enacted? [select the best three answers]

one to one (private) coaching sessions

use a "yellow card" procedure to flag poor behavior

educate managers, leaders, other internal stakeholders, customers, end-users

training

longer retros, skewing the retro agenda for learning, even if the retros breach the timebox

get senior management to mandate that all teams follow Scrum

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* 3. What are signs that a Scrum Team is self-managing? [select the two best answers]

Product Owner and Scrum Master participate in the Daily Scrum

Developers are able to resolve conflicts and continue working.

The line management overviews team's daily tasks

Creativity and new possibilities are explored

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* 4. Select two things that explain what "Done" means [select the best two answers]

All work for which enough expertise and skills are present in the Scrum Team

All work to create an Increment ready for acceptance testing by the Product Owner

Having an Increment of software that could be released to customers & end users

All work to create Increment for non-functional testing

All work performed as listed in the definition of Done

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* 5. How does a Scrum Master demonstrate Leadership? [select the three best answers]

Maximizing autonomy and freedom of the Developers by never intervening ever

Coaches/mentors/teaches the Developers, the Product Owner and organization how to work empirically

Facilitates Scrum Events as requested or needed, even if hopefully the Scrum Master is not requested/needed to do so (except for maybe the Sprint Retrospective)

Resolves every impediment that the Developers runs into, e.g., a developer's printer is broken

Facilitates team decisions

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* 6. The Scrum Team is waiting for an external supplier to deliver specific software. Without that component, the Developers will run out of work. The Developers ask the Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog. What would be good advice from the Scrum Master?

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner that optimization of value/risk/learning vs effort is his primary concern in the ordering the PB.

Tell PO that PB needs to be re-ordered to maximize utilization of Developers.

Tell PO to remove all work involving the external
component

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* 7. The Product Owner at the Sprint Review gives a hint about work that will be done for next Sprint, and the Chief Security Officer exclaims in a very concerned manner about possible security issues. How might the Scrum Team respond to these comments? [select the best three answers]

add related work to the Product Backlog and handle gradually, either as non-functional acceptance criteria or as individual Product Backlog Items (for the expensive work, perhaps requiring assistance from security experts), ideally dealing with the biggest concerns in the upcoming sprint alongside the work on the next increment.

the impact should be considered and all related work (from previous sprints and the upcoming sprint) should be presented to the Product Owner for consideration before next Sprint starts even if it delays the next Sprint

this work should be handled by a separate team
risks, issues, dependencies & assumptions could be discussed and documented in parallel sprints

in the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team assess how to add these concerns to the Definition of Done so future increments will consider these requirements

use "ensemble securitizing" akin to ensemble programming, ensemble documentation, ensemble UX etc.

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* 8. The New Product Owner comes to a Scrum team that has been working for seven sprints already. The Product Owner doesn't know his responsibilities. As a Scrum Master, what support could you offer to the Product Owner ? [select the best four answers]

Rely on the Developers and the PMO to do backlog management for a while

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to articulate and communicate a clear product vision and agree Sprint Goals with the Scrum Team every sprint

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to build good relationships with stakeholders

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to clarify requirements

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to clarify problems to be solved

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to connect the Developers, the customer, end-users, and internal stakeholders so they can directly explain the problems to be solved

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* 9. What are ways that technical debt affects velocity? [select the best two answers]

adding technical debt to the Product Backlog and estimating them can add to predictability

there is no relationship whatsoever

our hero Ops team deals with all the difficult stuff around here

The Scrum team can increase velocity in a lovely optical illusion akin to Gunther Verheyen's post at https://guntherverheyen.com/2019/01/07/the-illusion-of-agility-what-most-agile-transformations-end-up-delivering/

velocity may drop when team runs into "accidental complication" as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSes_PexXcA

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* 10. The Scrum Master is working with several teams on the same Product and same Product Backlog owned by one Product Owner. The teams share an impediment. There is an external specialist called Craig, that teams require full time commitment in order to deal with the work for the next four Sprints. What should you do as Scrum Master? [select the best four answers]

Re-order the Product Backlog to minimize dependencies in your service to the Product Owner

Organize a release sprint that Craig can support 100%

coach/mentor/teach Craig to train additional people

Developers can volunteer to take on the work that is required from Craig and perhaps Craig and those volunteers could "ensemble" together

Make one large team for the short-term

Investigate whether a scaling framework and/or patterns could help to deal with this case

Coach/mentor/teach the Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog to minimize dependencies in your service to the Product Owner

7- PSM II assessment preparation with a LeSS influence (unauthorized and unofficial - at your own risk)

Question Title

* 1. From a complexity point of view, what affects the outcome of a sprint the most? [select the three best answers] Hint, think x-axis and y-axis of the Stacey chart which Stacey himself deprecated:(. See and https://youtu.be/AP3iTrxzejE and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_D._Stacey

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* 2. What are acceptable ways a Scrum Master may work to ensure scrum is understood and enacted? [select the best three answers]

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* 3. What are signs that a Scrum Team is self-managing? [select the two best answers]

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* 4. Select two things that explain what "Done" means [select the best two answers]

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* 5. How does a Scrum Master demonstrate Leadership? [select the three best answers]

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* 6. The Scrum Team is waiting for an external supplier to deliver specific software. Without that component, the Developers will run out of work. The Developers ask the Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog. What would be good advice from the Scrum Master?

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* 7. The Product Owner at the Sprint Review gives a hint about work that will be done for next Sprint, and the Chief Security Officer exclaims in a very concerned manner about possible security issues. How might the Scrum Team respond to these comments? [select the best three answers]

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* 8. The New Product Owner comes to a Scrum team that has been working for seven sprints already. The Product Owner doesn't know his responsibilities. As a Scrum Master, what support could you offer to the Product Owner ? [select the best four answers]

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* 9. What are ways that technical debt affects velocity? [select the best two answers]

Question Title

* 1. From a complexity point of view, what affects the outcome of a sprint the most? [select the three best answers]

Hint, think x-axis and y-axis of the Stacey chart which Stacey himself deprecated:(. See and https://youtu.be/AP3iTrxzejE and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_D._Stacey