ICP Professional Ethics & Standards 4

Question 1

A team is asked to accelerate delivery by bypassing code review. The ethical Agile response is to:

Accepted Answer

Explain the quality and risk trade-offs transparently and decide together

Answer

Ethical Agile teams surface trade-offs transparently rather than silently compromising quality or hiding compliance.

Question 2

What is the ethical implication of velocity manipulation—artificially inflating story point estimates to appear more productive?

Accepted Answer

It violates honesty norms and erodes trust in planning

Answer

Manipulating velocity is dishonest and destroys the reliability of forecasting, harming team-stakeholder trust.

Question 3

How should an Agile team handle a retrospective action item that was consistently ignored by management?

Accepted Answer

Escalate it as a systemic impediment through appropriate channels

Answer

Persistent impediments must be escalated—accepting ignored action items normalizes dysfunction and erodes the team's ethical accountability.

Question 4

An Agile team member is asked to sign off on a deliverable they have not reviewed. The ethical action is to:

Accepted Answer

Decline until they can conduct a proper review

Answer

Professional integrity means only accepting responsibility for work you have actually verified—signing off blindly is dishonest.

Question 5

Which behavior best demonstrates respect—one of Scrum's core values—in a cross-functional team?

Accepted Answer

Valuing every team member's expertise regardless of their role or seniority

Answer

Respect in Scrum means recognizing and leveraging each person's unique expertise without hierarchy bias.

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