CAD Collaboration and Teamwork 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A team member consistently dominates sprint retrospectives, preventing others from sharing feedback. What should the Scrum Master do first?
- Exclude the team member from future retrospectives
- Use structured facilitation techniques like round-robin or silent writing (Correct answer)
- Escalate the issue to management immediately
- Cancel retrospectives until behavior improves
Correct answer: Use structured facilitation techniques like round-robin or silent writing
Structured facilitation techniques ensure all voices are heard without singling out the dominant member.
Question 2: Which practice best supports knowledge sharing across an agile team when a specialist is unavailable?
- Hiring a second specialist immediately
- Creating detailed documentation only the specialist maintains
- Pair programming and cross-training team members (Correct answer)
- Assigning the specialist's work to the Scrum Master
Correct answer: Pair programming and cross-training team members
Pair programming and cross-training reduce knowledge silos and build collective team capability.
Question 3: During a sprint, two developers disagree on the technical approach for a user story. What is the recommended agile resolution?
- The senior developer's approach always takes precedence
- The product owner decides the technical approach
- The team discusses trade-offs and reaches a consensus or uses a spike (Correct answer)
- The Scrum Master assigns the story to one developer only
Correct answer: The team discusses trade-offs and reaches a consensus or uses a spike
Agile teams are self-organizing and resolve technical disagreements through collaborative discussion and experimentation.
Question 4: What does the agile concept of 'team velocity' measure in the context of collaboration?
- Individual developer output per sprint
- The average amount of work a team completes per sprint (Correct answer)
- The speed at which code is deployed to production
- The number of meetings held per sprint
Correct answer: The average amount of work a team completes per sprint
Velocity measures the team's collective throughput, helping forecast future sprint capacity.
Question 5: A distributed agile team struggles with time zone differences affecting collaboration. Which practice is MOST effective?
- Requiring all team members to work the same hours regardless of location
- Establishing overlapping core hours for synchronous collaboration (Correct answer)
- Eliminating all synchronous meetings and using only async tools
- Moving all team members to a single location
Correct answer: Establishing overlapping core hours for synchronous collaboration
Core overlap hours allow critical synchronous collaboration while respecting team members' time zones.
Question 6: Which agile artifact most directly facilitates collaboration between the development team and stakeholders?
- The sprint backlog
- The product backlog (Correct answer)
- The burndown chart
- The definition of done
Correct answer: The product backlog
The product backlog is collaboratively maintained by the Product Owner with stakeholder input, representing shared priorities.
Question 7: When a team member is struggling with their tasks mid-sprint, what should the team do according to agile principles?
- Wait until the retrospective to address performance issues
- Remove the struggling team member from the sprint
- Self-organize to swarm on the problem and offer support (Correct answer)
- Notify management and request a replacement resource
Correct answer: Self-organize to swarm on the problem and offer support
Agile teams self-organize to help struggling members, treating obstacles as shared team problems.
CAD Collaboration and Teamwork 2
A team member consistently dominates sprint retrospectives, preventing others from sharing feedback.
What should the Scrum Master do first?