At a Sprint Review, two stakeholders see the Increment and describe a market change that makes a whole branch of upcoming work far less valuable. The room agrees the backlog should look different as a result. What happens to the Product Backlog?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 3. Managing products with agility medium
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The options
Not correct Nothing yet — the Product Backlog can only be adjusted at Sprint Planning, so the change waits until the next Sprint begins
Wrong. Nothing confines backlog changes to Sprint Planning; the Sprint Review is named as an occasion where the backlog may be adjusted to meet new opportunities.
Correct It may be adjusted there and then to meet the new opportunity, with the attendees collaborating on what to do next and the Product Owner owning the resulting order
Correct. The Sprint Review is a working session about what to do next, and the collaboration feeds an ordering that still belongs to one accountability.
Not correct The stakeholders' conclusion is recorded and the Product Owner decides alone afterwards, since the Sprint Review is a presentation of the Increment
Wrong, and it is tempting because the ordering decision really is the Product Owner's. But the Guide warns against limiting the Sprint Review to a presentation — the adjusting is meant to happen in the room.
Not correct The Scrum Team votes on the proposed changes, since the whole Scrum Team attends and the change affects everyone
Wrong. Collaboration is not a ballot, and a vote would hand the ordering to the team rather than leaving it with the Product Owner.
Why
The Sprint Review is where new information from outside the team meets the backlog, which is why the Guide calls it a working session and warns against reducing it to a demonstration. Hold two things together for the exam: the adjustment is collaborative and immediate, and the ordering that results is still the Product Owner's. Neither a deferred decision nor a group vote is the Scrum answer.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Sprint Review
- What it says
- The Product Backlog may also be adjusted to meet new opportunities.
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