Certified Agile Service Manager Agile SM Roles 5

Question 1

Which Agile SM role has the authority to cancel a sprint if the sprint goal becomes obsolete?

Accepted Answer

Product Owner

Answer

Only the Product Owner has authority to cancel a sprint when the sprint goal is no longer valid or worthwhile.

Question 2

An Agile SM organization is scaling from one team to five. Which role becomes critical to ensure inter-team dependency management?

Accepted Answer

Release Train Engineer or Scrum of Scrums facilitator

Answer

A Release Train Engineer or Scrum of Scrums facilitator coordinates dependencies and communication across multiple Agile teams at scale.

Question 3

Which Agile SM practice best supports the Product Owner in prioritizing the service backlog effectively?

Accepted Answer

MOSCOW prioritization or weighted shortest job first (WSJF)

Answer

Techniques like MoSCoW and WSJF give the Product Owner structured frameworks for making data-driven backlog prioritization decisions.

Question 4

During a sprint retrospective, who is responsible for ensuring that the team's improvement action items are tracked and implemented?

Accepted Answer

Scrum Master

Answer

The Scrum Master ensures retrospective action items are followed through and continuous improvement actually happens.

Question 5

A traditional ITIL Change Manager is integrating with an Agile SM team. In Agile SM, change authority is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Embedded within the team with lightweight approval for standard changes

Answer

Agile SM embeds change authority within the team and uses lightweight approval mechanisms, reducing bottlenecks from heavyweight CAB processes.

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