Managing products with agility — page 2
Objective 3 of Professional Scrum Master I, worth 33.33% of the exam. This is page 2 of 3 of its question list; page one carries the full objective summary.
- 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.
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.
Questions on this objective (page 2 of 3)
- A key stakeholder says the Sprint Goals she is shown read like lists of ticket numbers and mean nothing to her, and that nobody tells her afterwards what any of it changed. She asks what Scrum actually promises someone in her position about a Sprint. Which TWO of these does Scrum state? machine-checked
- A Product Owner makes his calls in hallway conversations and one-to-one phone calls. Stakeholders keep asking the Developers what became of their requests, the Product Backlog has not been reordered in six weeks, and its top items are stale. He says the Developers know his priorities perfectly well. What is the problem in Scrum terms? machine-checked
- On day seven of a two-week Sprint a major customer threatens to escalate unless a new regulatory report ships this Sprint. The Product Owner agrees it matters. The Developers say that taking it on means the Sprint Goal will not be met. What does Scrum permit? machine-checked
- A newly appointed Scrum Master is preparing her team's first Sprint Review with eleven stakeholders invited, and the team asks her who is supposed to do the talking. Who presents the results of the Sprint's work to the key stakeholders? machine-checked
- Stakeholders complain that they have no idea what is happening between Sprint Reviews. A manager proposes a fortnightly "stakeholder sync" in the middle of every Sprint, with the Developers presenting progress and fielding questions. What should the Scrum Master point out? machine-checked
- A Product Owner is handed two systems with different user bases, different customers and separate budgets, and told to treat them as one product with a single Product Goal. She asks the Scrum Master what Scrum actually means by a product. Which answer matches the Guide? machine-checked
- A Product Owner needs three stakeholders from different departments in one room before she can settle the order of the next quarter's work; they have not been in the same room in a year. She asks the Scrum Master to arrange and facilitate the session. A Developer objects that facilitating business meetings is not a Scrum Master's job. Who is right? machine-checked
- A stakeholder is convinced the product needs a feature nobody on the Scrum Team has prioritised, and asks the Scrum Master how, in Scrum, he is meant to get it built. Which TWO routes does Scrum actually give him? machine-checked
- One product is built by three Scrum Teams. Each team has kept its own Product Backlog and its own Product Owner, and the three Product Owners meet monthly to align. Releases keep clashing and nobody in the organisation can say what the single most valuable next thing for the product is. What does Scrum say about this structure? machine-checked
- The Product Owner is away for two weeks. Before leaving, they asked the Scrum Master to "keep the backlog tidy — wording only, please leave the order alone". The Scrum Master rewrites six item descriptions and moves two items up because the Developers say those two unblock the rest. What is the correct reading of this? machine-checked
- Ahead of a refinement session, the Product Owner arrives with sizes already written against nine Product Backlog items, explaining that they sized them from last quarter's similar work to save the Developers an hour. Who is responsible for the sizing of Product Backlog items? machine-checked
- A Product Owner covering three markets asks a business analyst to write and maintain most of the Product Backlog items, and asks a senior Developer to keep the middle of the backlog ordered against the technical roadmap. A manager objects that this is no longer Scrum. Which statement is correct? machine-checked
- A new Scrum Master finds a recurring ninety-minute "refinement ceremony" in the calendar every Wednesday, mandatory for the whole Scrum Team, and is asked what its official timebox is and who is required to attend. What is the accurate answer? machine-checked
- On a Wednesday in the middle of a Sprint, outside any scheduled Scrum event, a Product Owner and three Developers spend forty minutes on a single large Product Backlog item, ending with it replaced by four smaller items, each with a clearer description and a size. What have they been doing, in the Guide's terms? machine-checked
- A programme office asks a Scrum Team to keep the entire Product Backlog — some two hundred items stretching a year out — refined, sized and ready at all times, so that a portfolio plan can be built from it. How should the Scrum Master respond? machine-checked
- A divisional director tells the Scrum Team that the Product Owner's ordering is wrong and that, as the budget holder, they are overriding it for the next two Sprints. The Product Owner has listened to the argument and is not persuaded. What does Scrum say? machine-checked
- An organisation names three product managers as "the Product Owner group" for one product. They meet fortnightly and settle the Product Backlog order by majority vote, then send the agreed order to the Scrum Team. What is wrong with this arrangement in Scrum terms? machine-checked
- A new Product Owner asks the Scrum Master to help them separate what they must answer for from what belongs to the Developers. Which TWO of these are part of the Product Owner's accountability for effective Product Backlog management? machine-checked
- On day six of a two-week Sprint the Developers discover that one selected item is far larger than understood and that a second item can be delivered in a much simpler way. The Sprint Goal is still achievable. Which TWO responses are consistent with Scrum? machine-checked
- The support desk keeps a separate defect queue and sends urgent tickets straight to two Developers, who work them alongside the Sprint. The Product Owner sees none of this and cannot explain to stakeholders why forecasts keep slipping. What does Scrum say about the arrangement? machine-checked
Drill this objective
The trainer can run a 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
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