Team Collaboration & Communication Flashcards

A distributed agile team struggles with misaligned understanding of sprint goals. Which communication practice best addresses this?

Answer: Hold a synchronous sprint planning session with all members present

Synchronous sprint planning ensures all distributed team members jointly agree on and understand the sprint goal in real time.

Which agile ceremony is PRIMARILY designed to improve team collaboration processes rather than product work?

Answer: Retrospective

The Retrospective focuses on how the team works together and identifies improvements to collaboration and processes.

An agile team has a member who consistently dominates discussions, silencing others. The Scrum Master should FIRST:

Answer: Raise the issue privately with the dominant member

Addressing the behavior privately first is a respectful, coaching-oriented approach aligned with agile servant leadership.

In agile, 'working agreements' are BEST described as:

Answer: Team-defined norms that guide how members interact and work

Working agreements are collaboratively created team norms that promote consistent, respectful interaction and productivity.

A product owner is frequently unavailable for questions during a sprint. This MOST directly threatens which agile principle?

Answer: Business-developer collaboration

The Agile Manifesto values 'customer collaboration over contract negotiation,' and PO unavailability breaks this continuous collaboration.

Which visual tool is MOST effective for making a team's work progress transparent to all members simultaneously?

Answer: Physical or digital Kanban board

A Kanban board provides real-time, shared visibility into work status for all team members at a glance.

During a retrospective, a team member proposes an improvement but others are skeptical. The BEST approach is to:

Answer: Assign one sprint to pilot the improvement and measure results

Time-boxing an experiment respects the idea while letting empirical results guide the team's decision.