CAE Agile Planning & Delivery 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Scrum team consistently fails to complete all Sprint backlog items by the end of the Sprint. What is the BEST first step to address this?
- Extend the Sprint length to allow more time
- Review and improve the team's estimation practices (Correct answer)
- Remove team members who are underperforming
- Add more items to the next Sprint to increase motivation
Correct answer: Review and improve the team's estimation practices
Poor estimation is the most common root cause of incomplete Sprints, so reviewing estimation practices addresses the core problem.
Question 2: In Agile, what does the term 'velocity' primarily measure?
- The speed at which developers write code
- The average amount of work a team completes per iteration (Correct answer)
- The number of bugs fixed per Sprint
- The time taken to deploy a release
Correct answer: The average amount of work a team completes per iteration
Velocity measures the average amount of work (in story points or similar units) a team completes per Sprint, used for forecasting.
Question 3: Which planning horizon is typically addressed during a Sprint Retrospective?
- Long-term product roadmap planning
- Release date forecasting
- Process improvement for upcoming Sprints (Correct answer)
- Backlog refinement and story splitting
Correct answer: Process improvement for upcoming Sprints
The Sprint Retrospective focuses on inspecting the team's process and creating a plan for improvement in the next Sprint.
Question 4: A product owner wants to add a high-priority feature mid-Sprint. What is the Agile-recommended approach?
- Immediately stop current work and start the new feature
- Add it to the current Sprint backlog without discussion
- Negotiate with the team: either add it and remove equal work, or defer to the next Sprint (Correct answer)
- Refuse all mid-Sprint changes as they violate Agile principles
Correct answer: Negotiate with the team: either add it and remove equal work, or defer to the next Sprint
Agile welcomes change but protects the Sprint goal by negotiating scope trade-offs rather than simply expanding work or refusing all changes.
Question 5: What is the primary purpose of a Definition of Ready (DoR) in Agile planning?
- To define when a product increment is shippable
- To ensure backlog items meet criteria before being pulled into a Sprint (Correct answer)
- To document team working agreements
- To specify the conditions for closing a project
Correct answer: To ensure backlog items meet criteria before being pulled into a Sprint
The Definition of Ready ensures user stories have sufficient detail, acceptance criteria, and dependencies resolved before Sprint planning begins.
Question 6: During release planning, a team uses story points to forecast. Their velocity is 40 points/Sprint and the release backlog contains 200 points. How many Sprints should they plan for?
- 4 Sprints
- 5 Sprints (Correct answer)
- 6 Sprints
- 8 Sprints
Correct answer: 5 Sprints
200 points ÷ 40 points per Sprint = 5 Sprints needed to complete the release backlog.
Question 7: Which artifact in Scrum is used to visualize remaining work in a Sprint over time?
- Product Roadmap
- Release Burnup Chart
- Sprint Burndown Chart (Correct answer)
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
Correct answer: Sprint Burndown Chart
The Sprint Burndown Chart shows the amount of remaining work each day of a Sprint, helping teams track progress toward their Sprint goal.
CAE Agile Planning & Delivery 2
A Scrum team consistently fails to complete all Sprint backlog items by the end of the Sprint.
What is the BEST first step to address this?