Professional Ethics & Standards Flashcards
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A team is asked to accelerate delivery by bypassing code review. The ethical Agile response is to:
Answer: Explain the quality and risk trade-offs transparently and decide together
Ethical Agile teams surface trade-offs transparently rather than silently compromising quality or hiding compliance.
What is the ethical implication of velocity manipulation—artificially inflating story point estimates to appear more productive?
Answer: It violates honesty norms and erodes trust in planning
Manipulating velocity is dishonest and destroys the reliability of forecasting, harming team-stakeholder trust.
How should an Agile team handle a retrospective action item that was consistently ignored by management?
Answer: Escalate it as a systemic impediment through appropriate channels
Persistent impediments must be escalated—accepting ignored action items normalizes dysfunction and erodes the team's ethical accountability.
An Agile team member is asked to sign off on a deliverable they have not reviewed. The ethical action is to:
Answer: Decline until they can conduct a proper review
Professional integrity means only accepting responsibility for work you have actually verified—signing off blindly is dishonest.
Which behavior best demonstrates respect—one of Scrum's core values—in a cross-functional team?
Answer: Valuing every team member's expertise regardless of their role or seniority
Respect in Scrum means recognizing and leveraging each person's unique expertise without hierarchy bias.
What is the ethical responsibility of the Scrum Master when the team is being pressured to compromise safety-critical testing?
Answer: Shield the team and escalate the risk to leadership
The Scrum Master is a servant-leader who has an ethical duty to protect the team and escalate risks that could harm users.
In Agile ethics, 'openness' as a Scrum value requires teams to:
Answer: Be transparent about work, progress, and obstacles with those who need to know
Openness means appropriate transparency with relevant stakeholders, not unconditional disclosure of all information.