Agile Practice Exam

A development team is just diving into a big project with hundreds of stories. The
team needs the visual depiction of product releases and the main components of
each release. each. Which one of the following tool is the best Solution: for the
same?

An Agile project using scrum methodology with relatively fixed scope is running
behind schedule for last 3 sprints. What may be the reason for such a delay?

In a typical agile project, Product backlog is the repository for product scope. Who
owns the product backlog?

Team members are not happy as the product owner often sets up informal
meetings for project status update, which is impacting their scheduled plan to
meet the iteration goal. What can be Servant Leader’s best course action to
manage the given situation?

A Scrum Master has helped transform a team into a high performance team. The
team has learnt to self-organize itself in its daily operations with an aim to deliver
business value to the customer. What could the management do with the role of
the Scrum Master?

Customer calls the Scrum Master and requests an urgent feature to be added to
the current Sprint. What should the Scrum Master do?

The development team experimented with a possible technical approach that
showed promise of providing significant performance gains, but things didn’t go
well. In the end, the story could not be finished within the sprint. What is the
lesson learnt from this experience?

How might a spike be helpful to an agile team?

A development team is reviewing an iteration work undertaken for the estimation
of efforts required and to give a commitment that is within the team’s calculated
capacity. Which of the following is not compulsory during this review and
discussion process?

Even when six stories are picked up for Sprint, a team follows the rule not to work
on more than three stories at a time. This practice is most aligned with which of
the following concepts:

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Which of the following represents a scrum
artifact?

Which of the following Agile principles helps to promote elimination of wastes
thereby minimizing scope creep and encouraging to do only those categories of
work that generates business value?

In a Sprint review meeting, the product owner dismisses the sprint and
recommends the newly appointed Scrum Master to arrange Agile coaching for the
team. Team really worked hard to meet the sprint goal and came up with a
detailed PowerPoint presentation for the sprint review meeting. What went wrong
in the situation mentioned above?

Tom is a Project Manager of a software development project. During the
preparation of Project Management Plan, he decides to use Agile development
approach instead of traditional waterfall approach which is widely used in his
organization. What has influenced him to decide agile as a development
approach?

In an Agile Software development project, a tester is writing a test before work
related to coding has begun. Which of the following technical practices is
mentioned in the given scenario?

Tom is a Servant leader of a complex software development project that is
running using Agile development approach. Two developers are having
difference in opinion about the technical approach of a user story. What needs
to be done in this situation?

The project team is using Iteration burn-down chart to predict the remaining
work in the current iteration backlog. Iteration Burn-down chart is an example
of which of the following tools and techniques?

A newly formed development team is started writing user stories after an
understanding of the features and functions. The few examples of user stories
are as follows: Users can make reservations so that they can travel Show room
sizes so that they can see if it fits their need . Which one of the following
problem would you like to fix in these user stories?

A Release burndown chart is showing burn up, what could be the possible
reason?

Which of the following is not an example of the four values of the Agile
Manifesto?

Tom is the newly appointed Project Manager of a software development
project which has high degree of uncertainties and scope is not yet fully
defined. Considering all the factors, he decides to adopt Agile development
approach for running the project. Now, he has to come up with an initial cost
estimate before the project work begins. What can be the best approach for the
preparation of initial cost estimate as per the stated scenario?

Todd is a project manager of a very large software product development
project that needs to be executed from five different cities. Senior
management has decided to run the project using an agile approach by
following the philosophies of the scrum as much as possible. What framework
is most suited as per the given situation?

At a walkthrough, a stakeholder, end user, and the development team identify
significant new functionality required for the proposed solution to be effective.
What is the next step?

Stakeholders want to understand what progress an agile team has made in
their last iteration. What should stakeholders review to determine this
information?

As an Agile Coach, what is the BEST way for you to handle a complex situation
during a delivery?

Which of the following represents the purpose of Sprint review Meeting BEST?

Members of the team post updates to a graph that shows the progression of
features to being ‘Done.’ Examples of the stages of progress include Backlog,
Design, Development, Testing and Done. What is the name of this graph?

How does release plan help?

Which approach is BEST for estimating Agile Projects while doing the release
planning?

During an iteration planning meeting, the team is estimating the size of the
effort for each story by assigning each story to a shirt size of XS, S, M, L, XL or
XXL. Which estimation method is being used?

The ongoing sprint for a software development project that is being executed
by following Agile – Scrum development approach needs to be cancelled as the
sprint goal has become obsolete due to a sudden change in law associated to IT
security.

The Scrum Master explains the three primary roles in Scrum to the newly hired
team member. Which role is sometimes called ‘the voice of the customer’?

An agile practitioner is explaining the Agile Manifesto to some end users in
advance of a new project. Which of the following would the agile practitioner
say is preferred in an agile project?

In a typical business complex and mid-sized agile project, what does the team
attempt to develop every Sprint?

The product owner of an agile project has the responsibility of grooming the
product backlog. Grooming involves prioritizing and re-prioritizing user stories
on a regular basis. As an agile best practice, which of the following criteria are
most important for the owner to use when grooming the product backlog?

A scrum team that has been working on an agile project, is arguing over the
story points in the sprint meeting planning. The product owner is pushing the
team to complete 170 story points of user stories in the next sprint whereas the
average velocity of the development team is 150 story points per sprint. Who
will make the final decision to fix the number of story points to be completed
in a sprint?

Which of the following is not a feature of an Agile team?

On the completion of the first three iterations, an agile team determined that
344 story points are required to complete the remaining project. The average
team velocity in the first three iterations was 50 story points. What will be the
number of iterations required for the team to complete the project?

A team member is constantly spending on items that are not in the sprint
backlog. As a Scrum Master what should you do?

Florian is a stakeholder in STC company. He has recently learned that the team
will use an agile framework in the current project. In a planning meeting,
Florian tells the team members that they are not doing formal documentation
in this project as they were doing in the previous projects. How will the team
members reply to his statement?

The velocity of an 8-member Agile team over the past few sprints has been 36,
32, 40, 46, 38 and 48 story points. In the next 2-week Sprint, there are two
public holidays planned. How many points must the team plan for?

One role of an agile practitioner is to promote the knowledge and execution of
agile practices within an organization. Which of the following agile
practitioners is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the product
roadmap?

A team lead is currently demonstrating a potentially shippable product
increment for project stakeholders. Which agile meeting is being conducted?

At the sprint retrospective meeting, the team lead drew a fishbone diagram,
wrote a problem at the head of the fish, and labeled the bones of the fish with
categories. What should the team do next?

What is the most important reason why Product Owner needs to be present in
Sprint Planning meeting?

Team has finished release planning meeting and agreed on condition of
satisfaction, priority of backlog items, team velocity, etc. There are some large
features that were not estimated, however team decided to split them closer to
development. Few sprints have passed, but team has not been able to update
release plan due to time constraints. During Sprint Planning, team decides to
split one large feature into 4 smaller stories based on operational boundaries.
Unfortunately, there is not enough capacity in the current iteration, so team
can include only 2 of the 4 stories in this sprint. When team demonstrates the
product increment during the sprint review meeting, the PO refuses to accept
these two user stories that the team had marked as Done. What could have
potentially gone wrong?

How does an agile team go about developing a schedule?

What role Product Owner plays in the sprint planning meeting?

In evaluating an agile project, which of the following metrics would you use to
compare effectiveness of two agile team / projects?

An agile team finished coding for the current iteration. Which of the following
is a continuous process improvement ceremony that the team will now attend?

While working on a hybrid project, an agile practitioner is responsible to
perform the duties of both the project scrum master and provide project
performance reports periodically to the senior management. The project
sponsor suggests the agile practitioner that track the velocity of each team
member individually instead of tracking the team velocity to monitor the
progress of the project. What would the agile practitioner do as per agile best
practices?

You are an Agile practitioner working on an agile project using the Scrum
framework. The primary purpose of a Sprint Review is for the team to?

An agile team is working on a project for which the user stories have not been
tested sufficiently. What could be the reason behind it?

An agile project sponsor has requested to see the impact of the scope changes
requested by the customer throughout the lifecycle of the project. What
information radiator would an agile practitioner recommend to the sponsor to
look at?

In an Agile project, who plays the role of a servant leader?

Todd is a directive PMO of an IT organization. As an Agile expert, he decides to
promote osmotic communication across projects under his portfolio. Osmotic
communication is best suited in which of the following team environments?

Some Product owners use riskadjusted backlog in agile projects. Which of the
following is true regarding a riskadjusted backlog?

You have been appointed as the Servant Leader for your company’s latest
software development project running in agile framework. Which of the
following defines your role?

Based on the velocity determined after completing several iterations, agile
team members assume that they will be unable to meet the release deadline.
What should the team do?

During a retrospective, the members of the agile team mention that the agile
coach’s actions during the last iteration did not align with agile best practices.
To which of the following did the team most likely refer?

Which statement is true about the Sprint Burndown chart?

Assuming same team capacity, how would doubling the work in progress (WIP)
affect Cycle Time?

Team with Product Owner have started sprint planning meeting for Sprint #3.
Release duration is 4 months with 5 sprints. PO presents sprint goals and team
is seeking clarification for one of the use stories. PO provides required
explanation however she also mentions that for her to approve the user story
in demo she need to have these three functionalities done and demonstrated in
right way. Team has some doubts and discusses further with PO. After the
discussion PO agrees to need of only two features to be demonstrated by team
for her to approve the story. What team is doing in this scenario?

An agile team is in the process of adopting XP practices and is keen to have a
co-located customer. But the customer team being in a different continent,
customer co-location is not really an option. What is the next reasonable
option for the long term?

An agile project to develop software for a new inventory control system is in
the initiation stage. Which of the following would most likely be included in
the project charter?

You are a scrum master, handing a team working on an agile project. The
product owner could not take part in the recent sprint planning meeting due to
his other responsibilities. A team member escalates in the daily standup
meeting that he needs clarification for a user story, but not able to contact the
product owner to get feedback. What will you do in this situation as a scrum
manager?

The newly-organized agile project team is creating the schedule management
plan, they documented time-boxed periods for releases, waves, and iterations
for the project. What is the project team trying to achieve by documenting
time-boxed periods for each iteration?

In a Scrum project, the term “done” is BEST described when a deliverable is:

You are working as an agile practitioner and in the middle of the project the
developing team lead came to you mentioned that he is interested in the
operation manager position which was published internally in the company.
What would be your action?

In Agile methods, project planning may take place at 3 levels, such as visioning,
release planning, and iteration planning. These 3 levels are examples of what?

Your Company has hired a Lean consultant. The consultant is having discussion
with the team about flow of work, team roles, processes, documentation, and
lesson learned. What should be the top priority of lean consultant during this
review?

Senior management calls the Product Owner to understand the detailed project
status. What should the Product Owner do?

To compensate for the loss of productivity due to inefficient communication in
a distributed team environment, management created a team of 14 members.
But, the team is performing far below expectations. What should the
management do next?

Two teams are working on different projects. Team A averages 20 points per
iteration and team B averages 35. What can be said about the performance of
the two teams?

In the mid of a software development project, a project stakeholder requests
the scrum master for adding a new feature that will increase the project cost
and schedule. What should the Scrum Master do next?

How should an agile practitioner respond when asked what type of planning
corresponds to the technique of applying incremental delivery cycles to
perform the work on an agile project?

To increase agile knowledge, traditional project managers of a company have
been paired with scrum masters to observe them lead their teams. One
observation is that many project decisions are the responsibility of the project
team and the scrum master is more facilitative than authoritative. In fact, the
scrum masters seem more focused on ensuring that the team can focus on the
work, have a shared vision, and determine how they will accomplish their work.
What leadership approach have the scrum masters adopted?

Agile principles encourage the use of particularly decision models. Which of the
following is FALSE about participative decision making?

How is risk managed in Agile?

During the project, the product owner knows from the sponsor that a major
component, which is already 20 percent completed, is not needed anymore for
the users. The component was part of the approved scope. As a product owner
what should you do next?

Team is finding hard to understand one of the acceptance tests written on
story cards. What is the next BEST step ?

You are the Scrum master and having a conversation with one business
stakeholders Joy, Joy asked, how do business people interact with development
team? For instance, business people only understand the business benefit of
possible feature where the development team speaks about technology, what
brings both of them on the same page? You said :

A set of related user stories that may be combined together and treated as a
single entity for either estimating or release planning is referred to as

You are the scrum master and you notice that over the last 6 iterations, the
number escaped defects has gradually increased. Yet the numbers are not
alarming, but the trend is not favourable. What should you do first?

An agile practitioner needs to track the work completed by the team over time.
How might the agile practitioner accomplish this task?

An agile team is demonstrating a recently developed product. Who determines
when a product is complete?

After the end of the fourth sprint, the agile team members reported that they
were unable to complete all user stories to be delivered in the sprint since the
product owner pushed too many story points for the last sprint. As a result, the
team had to work overtime and eventually got burned out. The product owner
wants to hold the team accountable for the sprint failure. What is the best
course of action for the team in this situation?

A team needs to perform various activities during Sprint Planning meeting.
Which of the following activities should ideally be completed before Sprint
Planning starts?

How should the team handle non-functional activities that are part of
Definition of Done (DoD) but the Product Owner does not care much about?

During Daily Scrum meeting, a junior developer (A) shares that he is stuck on
an important task. A senior developer (B) who has worked on a similar item in
the past offers to help. As an Agile Practitioner, what step should you take?

A developer has just learnt a better way of developing a feature the team just
finished. He shared the details with the Scrum Master to show the possibility of
improving the performance by a factor of two or more. How should the Scrum
Master try to utilize this learning?

Due to the organizational constraints, some of the agile team members are in
different parts of the country, while other team members are co-located in the
same building of the organization. Which of the following agile technique
would establish better communication among the team members?

An agile practitioner is planning to share the project status with stakeholders.
What approach should the agile practitioner take?

You are a project manager of a software development project that is following
agile –scrum framework. The product owner and the development team has
finalized a clear sprint goal for the upcoming sprint. Who determines how the
scrum team will accomplish the goal?

During the last sprint of a software development project which is being
executed by following scrum framework, a key stakeholder requests a change
which may improve the performance of the final product but may also affect
the planned schedule. What should the product owner do?

While the team is prioritizing features for the next iteration, they drop some
feature from backlog, which features should the agile team drop it?

You are project Manager and have been participating in initial discussion with
product Managers, business and architect team to reach an agreement on work
in progress limit for your team. After analyzing the nature of work and other
parameters you have proposed a Work in progress limit of 50 however Business
stakeholders want WIP in progress limit to be increased to 75 as there is need
to faster time to market. As a Project manager what are the factors you should
consider before deciding on WIP limits

During Sprint Review, customer wants some enhancements to a feature that
was completed during the Sprint and was accepted by the Product Owner. How
should the team deal with such changes?

The Scrum Master has been a technical architect in his previous role. During a
Sprint Planning session, he notices team is opting for a solution approach that
he feels has a high risk of failure. What should the Scrum Master do?

You are working as a product owner and part of the project that is assigned to
you now is to get a piece of the project from a vendor. One of the vendors
invites you for a special dinner to discuss this area of the project. What should
be your reply to this invitation?

When is a user story (or feature) usually estimated by a Scrum team?

A development team continuously showing predictable velocity trends when
estimating user stories of size 1, 2, or 3 points but does not have a good track
record with stories sized at 5 points and above. What could be the reason
behind this special bad track record?

A development team is closely working with the customer to design wireframes
for each story. The every feature is going in development after the agreement
of the client using these wireframes. Initial iterations went well, but in fifth
iteration client simply rejected the work by saying this is not what I wanted to.
What could be the reason behind the situation?

What is the BEST way to estimate the cost of a project?

The team is struggling to reach a consensus on the estimate for a story that
involves a new technology the team is not much familiar with. What should the
team do?

Team who has recently started implementing KANBAN needs some advice from
Agile coach on how to conduct daily standup meetings. If you are an Agile
coach what would you recommend

It is the Sprint Planning meeting for 3rd sprint of an 8-sprint release. One user
story is too large and team decides to split it into smaller stories. There are
several ways team could split user stories EXCEPT:

A team member has been coming late to the Daily scrum despite repeated
reminders from Scrum Master. How could the Scrum Master attempt to correct
this behaviour?

A team usually follows a 3-month release cycle with several 2-week sprints, but
the customer is too busy to attend Sprint-end product reviews. He insists on
release-end demo only. Do you anticipate a problem here?

As an Agile Practitioner how could you ensure stakeholder vision and
objectives are shared by the team?

While most developers design and code their stories, you have an experienced
architect in the team who is primarily responsible for code review of other
team members to ensure consistency and quality in design. But the practice of
doing code review (and possible rework) after development is complete on a
story is creating friction among team members, often resulting in low morale.
As an Agile Practitioner, how you may address this issue:

The customer tells you in the middle of the release that one feature that is
already in progress is no longer required. This feature is an epic and significant
effort has already gone into the development. What should the team do next?

An established team of 8 members is known for higher performance and low
defect rates. They usually pick 20-25 stories for execution during their 30-day
sprint. As an Agile Practitioner, what do you think the team could try to step up
their agility?

The velocity of a team went down because Product Owner did not provide
requirement clarification to the team. What should the Scrum Master do?

When should you freeze acceptance criteria for a user story?

Does estimation differ for product backlog (PB) items and the sprint backlog
(SB) items?

What would be your most important recommendation to the management who
are procuring new office space and there is a plan to transition from traditional
project management to agile?

A recent internal survey indicated that most employees are apprehensive about
transition from waterfall to Scrum, suggesting the organization may not be
ready for Agile adoption just yet. As an Agile Practitioner responsible for
managing one team, what is your best option?

When does a Scrum team create and elaborate user stories in detail?

It is day 7 of a 10-day (2-week) sprint and as developers are finishing
development tasks, the testing tasks are piling up. There is a risk all stories may
not get done within Sprint timelines. As a Scrum Master of a high-performing
crossfunctional team, how you may best address this issue:

The benefits of maintaining and making visible a prioritized list of threats and
issues facing the team include the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following approaches to agility lays great emphasis on
eliminating waste:

Why does an Agile team need to elicit and prioritize important non-functional
requirements (such as security and performance) early on?

A junior developer took 12 hours to complete a relatively complex task that
was estimated by the team as a 4-hour task. How should an agile team handle
such a case?

Average velocity of a team over past several sprints has been 30 story points. In
the current Sprint, two stories got stuck due to external dependencies and
ended up bringing down team velocity to 20 story points. How many story
points should the team pick for execution in the upcoming sprint?

In an effort to facilitate close communication with external stakeholders,
management has decided to co-locate a subject matter expert from customer
side with the team. The team however is resistant to the idea – they fear it will
create unnecessary work pressure and may expose the team’s internal issues
and weaknesses to the customer. As an Agile Practitioner, what would you
consider your best first move?

Why do Agile methods recommend frequent reviews of work products via code
reviews, testing and product reviews?

During the iteration planning meeting, you come across a story whose
development does not fit into an iteration. What is the BEST thing to do next?

Exploratory tester use all the following tools EXCEPT?

You are project Manager and have been participating in initial discussion with
product Managers, business and architect team to reach an agreement on work
in progress limit for your team. After analyzing the nature of work and other
parameters you have proposed a Work in progress limit of 50 however Business
stakeholders want WIP in progress limit to be increased to 75 as there is need
to faster time to market. As a Project manager what are the factors you should
consider before deciding on WIP limits

If the product owner said that the last sprint failed to deliver value to the
project What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?

While working on a sprint an agile team notice that an important task on the
sprint backlog will take more time than it was estimated. What should the agile
team do ?

You are the Product Owner and you see an updated burndown chart depicting
the progress of the current iteration. The team is on day 10 of 30-day iteration.
The card depicts the planned progress as a diagonal line in yellow. Actuals are
updated each day, forming a green line. On day 10, the green line below the
yellow line. What does this communicate to stakeholders?

How do you BEST describe the primary role of Agile Leader?

What trend does the top of the bar indicate in a release burndown bar chart?

Who writes the User Stories

There are 5 levels of planning that are common to agile projects. If we list them
from high-level to low-level planning, which of the following represents the
correct sequence?

The project sponsor from the customer’s side doesn’t like most of what she
sees in the product demo just before the first release of the product. And now
the whole release could be in jeopardy. What do you think could possibly be
the root cause of this situation?

Product Owner wants to include an urgent story into the current Sprint – on
day 3 of a 2-week Sprint. How should the development team respond to this
request?

In a Scrum team, who is responsible for the success or failure of the project?

A team member has been coming late to the daily scrum for past several days.
What should the Scrum Master do?

Why do we write acceptance tests?

The team wants to know how the product will be used, or what features will
prove more popular. Of the following, what technique can help the most?

Which of the following statement is true about risk identification in agile
teams?

One of your stakeholders is interested in knowing how well agile team is doing
in reducing the risks iteration by iteration, which of the following information
radiator can help the most?

Who comes up with the definition of done for a feature?

A vice president of product management company taken the role of Product
Owner for a business critical product. He is ideally suited to ensure product
vision better, but he is struggling to spend enough time with the team. He is
thinking to have a proxy for the lower level detailing of requirements. Who
makes the best User Proxies?

While transitioning from Waterfall to Agile, a team of 25 decides to create two
development teams and one testing team, where the output of current
development iterations is tested in the next testing iteration. This practice is
likely to increase the following types of wastes EXCEPT:

In Scrum, how does developing product over multiple time-boxed sprints help
in managing requirements:

Joy met with Sally so that he could describe in detail the change the customer
wanted to make into a key feature of the product. While Joy talked about the
technical specifications, Sally made eye contact with Joy. When Joy felt that all
the details had been covered, Sally asked if she could repeat back her
understanding to make sure it was complete and clear. In this scenario, sally is
applying what technique?

Agile earned value management is most appropriately applied at which level?

A Lean team employed a technique to analyse the flow of information and
materials through system to identify value adding and non value adding
activities. This technique is called:

You are a scrum master of scrum team. The new team member has just joined
the team and has a very little experience in the domain you are working in.
How should you manage him?

A Development teams’ velocity is around 40 story points, and they are
accepting 5, 8, 13point stories in an iteration. The team is taking high priority
items needed by the business and also Product Owner regularly involved
during development. But still, the team is feeling urgency pressure and as a
result consistently missing out one or two user stories in the iterations. As an
Agile Practitioner, what would you like to suggest?

Reducing the number of items in the team’s immediate focus results in?

Team A is delivering 800 SP, and Team B is delivering 30 SP. Team B is going
through some external interruptions after adding few resources. As an Agile
Practioner, how would you define team A and team B?

Budget & schedule should be considered as conditions of satisfaction for which
phase of planning?

What style of leadership should agile leader adapt?

Your team consists of a programmer, a designer, and a tester and you are asked
to provide an estimate for a user story in terms of ideal days. What is the BEST
approach for providing this estimate?

Which of the following is an example of Avoid risk response category?

Which could be the best possible approach for Splitting Epic?

A development team is fully aware of their decisions, and consequences too.
The whole development team have goals to achieve but are not directed how
to achieve them. They are free to manage their work and can enhance their
skills contineously. How would you describe this team?

Your team is in a good place; your velocity is gaining momentum with each
new Sprint, and then suddenly your star developer turns in his resignation.
Which one of the following practice will support the team best?

The team meets for the sprint planning meeting. Regarding the product
backlog, what is the correct expectation of the team?

In creating the team space, what feature provides the most effective method of
communication?

Which role is responsible to prepare the release plan?

You are the scrum master of an underperforming and burnt-out agile team.
How can you best improve the team’s performance?

As per XP methodology , When XP teams perform significant analysis, design,
coding and testing?

In a sprint planning meeting, who is responsible for selecting the number of
items for the sprint from the product Backlog?

Your company implements a requirement that teams create highly detailed
documentation as part of the company-wide software development lifecycle.
What is the correct response?

You are an agile practitioner. Several members of your team have expressed
concern that the project is not progressing as well as they would like. What is
the best course of action?

Your project sponsor wants to know if the product you’re building will be ready
to demo at a trade show.What do you tell him ?

As Scrum Master, you assess that the competitive market has shifted and the
product the team is building is no longer viable.What should you do?

You are leading a team with an average velocity of 65 points per
iteration.Another team of the same size in your organizationis working on
aproject with similar complexity. The other team’s velocityis averaging 90
points per month.Your team should:

Your team is averaging 40 story pointsper two-week iteration.they have 200
points’ worth of functionality left in the user story backlog.How many weeks
can we expect it will take until development is completed?

As per agile estimating tools and techniques So, Affinity estimating allows a
team to:

You have been assigned a New Project that is large, complex and uncertain. As
a Project Manager, you will be using agile project management. Which of the
following will you select while creating your team?

Susanne is the product manager for one of the critical go to market product for
Foremost enterprise. IT team developing the product has chosen KANBAN
methodology to deliver the product. Susanne is invited to daily standup
meetings and she is quite pleased with the progress so far and quality of
discussions during the daily standup meetings. She has observed that just after
the daily standup meetings are complete some small groups of 2-3 team
members go to different room and discuss some issue. She asks one such group
on what they were discussing and she was told it was mostly some architectural
or process related issues. Susanne wonders why they are not been discussed in
daily standup meetings. She approached the Project Manager of the team.
What should project manager do.

It is the Sprint Planning meeting for 3rd sprint of an 8-sprint release. One user
story is too large and team decides to split it into smaller stories. There are
several ways team could split user stories EXCEPT:

Team was working on iteration 3 and during the testing, tester identified bugs
in a story completed in iteration no 1, what should be the team’s response?