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Which statement best describes a responsibility of the Scrum Master? (choose the best answer)

• A.Helping the Scrum Team to improve their ability to deliver.
• B.Directing the Developers.
• C.Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders.
• D.Keeping stakeholders informed and happy.
• E.Optimizing the value of the work the Scrum Team performs.

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

• A.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.
• B.They consist of team members who work only on one product and team at a time, so that they can focus.
• C.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.
• D.They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.

You manage a development organization. The organization currently rewards individual performance bonuses to only a few top-performers on a yearly basis. As a result, only one member of a team might get a bonus, while all others get nothing. Some of your teams feel that this is unfair since everyone on a team contributes to the success or failure to achieve goals. They would like to move toward team bonuses. What do you think needs to be done? (choose the best answer)

• A.Allocate the bonus to the team and let them decide how to split-up the bonus.
• B.Nothing: you value high-performers and want to reward their contributions.

A new agile initiative is being mobilized, and you are the manager tasked with staffing the teams. How do you decide which team each member should belong to? (choose the best answer)

• A.Group people together who already know each other from previous teams.
• B.Assign people to teams in such a way that balances skills, experience, and seniority as evenly as possible.
• C.Group people together who have a similar skill set to maximize efficiency and utilization.
• D.Group people together based on which components of the system they are most familiar with.
• E.Bring together interested people, discuss product goals, remind teams that they need to balance skills and experience, and let the teams self-organize.

Value stream mapping is a useful technique to: (choose the best answer)

• A.Understand customer requirements.
• B.Understand how to break down work and assign it to teams.
• C.Enable a Portfolio view of your "Epics."
• D.Understand how to break down epics into smaller user stories.
• E.Identify sources of waste and activities that do not add value in a process.