Collaboration and Team Dynamics Flashcards
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A team member consistently dominates sprint planning discussions, preventing others from contributing. What is the BEST first step for the Scrum Master?
Answer: Use facilitation techniques like round-robin or silent writing to balance participation
Facilitation techniques that give equal voice to all team members address participation imbalance without punitive measures.
Which practice BEST supports the agile principle of building projects around motivated individuals?
Answer: Allowing teams to self-organize and choose how to accomplish their work
Self-organization empowers motivated individuals to determine the best way to complete their work, honoring this agile principle.
Two developers on your team have conflicting opinions on the technical approach for a user story. The sprint deadline is in two days. What should happen?
Answer: The team resolves it through a brief technical discussion and reaches a consensus
Agile teams are self-organizing and expected to resolve technical conflicts through open discussion and consensus.
What does the concept of 'psychological safety' contribute to agile team collaboration?
Answer: It allows team members to speak up, take risks, and admit mistakes without fear of punishment
Psychological safety enables honest communication and experimentation, which are foundational to continuous improvement in agile.
An agile team is spread across three time zones. Which practice MOST directly addresses asynchronous collaboration challenges?
Answer: Replacing the Daily Scrum with a written async standup update shared on a shared channel
Async written standups preserve the transparency and synchronization goal of the Daily Scrum while accommodating distributed time zones.
During a retrospective, a team member says, 'Nothing ever changes from these retrospectives.' What is the most effective response?
Answer: Review past action items together and commit to one specific, measurable improvement for the next sprint
Reviewing past action items and committing to concrete improvements demonstrates that retrospectives produce real change.
What is the primary benefit of co-locating agile team members?
Answer: It enables richer, faster communication through osmotic information sharing
Co-location enables osmotic communication where team members absorb context passively, accelerating decision-making and reducing misunderstandings.