A Scrum Team is reworking its Daily Scrum. They are tired of three questions each and want to try walking the board right to left instead, and they also want to know how much else about the event they are free to change. Which two of the following are genuinely theirs to decide? (Choose two.)
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 2. Developing people and teams hard
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The options
Choose 2.
Correct The structure and techniques used in the event, as long as it focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal and produces an actionable plan for the next day
Correct. The Guide names no format for the Daily Scrum at all — it names a purpose and an output and leaves the method to the Developers.
Not correct Whether to hold the event daily, since some Sprints have quieter weeks
Wrong. The cadence is part of the framework: the Daily Scrum is held every working day of the Sprint. Skipping it is not a self-management decision, it is dropping an event.
Correct Which impediments they raise and how they re-plan the coming day's work
Correct. Adapting the plan toward the Sprint Goal is the Developers' own accountability, and the Daily Scrum is where they exercise it.
Not correct Extending the event to forty-five minutes on Mondays so the week can be planned properly
Wrong, and the most tempting of the wrong pair because it sounds like a team improving its own process. The fifteen minutes is a boundary the framework sets; a longer conversation is allowed, but it is not the Daily Scrum.
Why
The reliable way to answer questions about what a self-managing team may change is to ask whether the thing is a container or a method. Containers — the events, their cadence, their timeboxes, the accountabilities, the artefacts and their commitments — are fixed by the framework. What happens inside them is the team's. That single distinction settles most self-management items on this paper without needing to recall the specific event.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Daily Scrum
- What it says
- The Developers can select whatever structure and techniques they want, as long as their Daily Scrum focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal and produces an actionable plan for the next day of work.
Practise this
Reading one question is not practice. The trainer will draw a set from objective 2 and space the ones you get wrong.
Practise Professional Scrum Master I
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