In a Retrospective the Scrum Team votes unanimously to drop the Sprint Review, on the grounds that stakeholders read the release notes anyway and that a self-managing team should be free to shape its own process. They ask the Scrum Master to confirm the change. What is the correct answer?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 2. Developing people and teams medium
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The options
Not correct The change is valid because it was agreed unanimously by a self-managing team
Wrong. Unanimity is not the test. Self-management decides how the team works inside the framework, and an event is part of the framework rather than part of the team's method.
Not correct The change is valid if the Product Owner still collects stakeholder feedback another way
Wrong, and it is the strongest distractor because it preserves the purpose while dropping the event. Scrum is explicit that implementing only parts of it is possible but the result is not Scrum.
Not correct The Scrum Master should approve it for a trial of three Sprints and then review
Wrong twice over. There is no Scrum Master approval of process changes, and a timeboxed trial does not make an omitted event a Scrum practice.
Correct The team may change almost anything about how it works, but not whether the events happen — dropping one means what they are running is no longer Scrum
Correct. The framework is immutable as outlined; the wide freedom the team has sits inside it, not over it.
Why
The line worth carrying into the exam room is that the framework is deliberately incomplete and equally deliberately immutable. What is missing — techniques, formats, practices, tools — is the team's to fill in, and that is a large freedom. What is defined is not optional, and no vote inside the team and no approval outside it changes that. Failure to operate any event as prescribed costs an opportunity to inspect and adapt.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section End Note
- What it says
- While implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum.
Practise this
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