A Scrum Team is reviewing its own behaviour against the five Scrum values. Which TWO of these behaviours are consistent with the values as Scrum describes them?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 1. Understanding and applying the Scrum framework medium
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The options
Choose 2.
Correct During the Sprint the Developers decline a stakeholder's request to start unrelated work, and point the stakeholder to the Product Owner
Correct. That is focus and respect together: the team keeps its primary attention on the work of the Sprint, and it routes the request to the person accountable for what the product does next rather than quietly absorbing or quietly refusing it.
Correct A Developer tells the team at the Daily Scrum that they have been stuck for a day on something they expected to take an hour
Correct. Openness and courage: it costs something to say, and it is the input the team needs to adapt today's plan rather than discover the problem at the end of the Sprint.
Not correct The Product Owner keeps a known change in company strategy quiet until the Sprint Review so the team is not distracted mid-Sprint
Wrong. It protects focus by spending openness, and it withholds exactly the information that would let the Scrum Team adapt. Focus is about attention, never about being kept in the dark.
Not correct The Scrum Master compiles each Developer's individual throughput and shares a ranking with their line manager
Wrong. Nothing in Scrum measures team members against one another, and doing so corrodes respect and guarantees that nobody will be open about being stuck again.
Not correct The team quietly relaxes its Definition of Done for the final two days of the Sprint so that more items can be counted as finished
Wrong. Quality does not decrease during the Sprint, and a Definition of Done that moves is a Definition of Done that has stopped meaning anything. The items are simply not Done.
Why
The values are easiest to apply by asking which one a behaviour spends rather than which one it claims. Hiding a strategy change spends openness to buy focus; ranking individuals spends respect to buy visibility; relaxing the Definition of Done spends transparency to buy a number at the Review. Scrum's position is that the values reinforce each other, and a practice that trades one away for another is a warning sign rather than a balance.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Scrum Values
- What it says
- These values give direction to the Scrum Team with regard to their work, actions, and behavior.
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