Scrum Master as Leader Flashcards
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A Scrum Master is working with three Scrum Teams building the same product. What is the MOST important thing the Scrum Master should coordinate across teams?
Answer: Ensuring each team uses identical Definition of Done and integrated increments each Sprint
A shared Definition of Done and integrated increments ensure multiple teams produce a coherent, potentially shippable product.
Which of the following BEST describes 'servant leadership' as applied by a Scrum Master?
Answer: The Scrum Master prioritizes the needs of the team and organization to enable their greatest effectiveness
Servant leadership means enabling others' effectiveness by removing obstacles, facilitating growth, and supporting both team and organizational needs.
The organization mandates a new security compliance process that adds three days to every Sprint. How should the Scrum Master handle this?
Answer: Work with the team to integrate the compliance steps into their Definition of Done
Incorporating compliance requirements into the Definition of Done makes quality and regulatory standards a transparent, built-in part of done work.
A Scrum Master is asked to assign tasks to developers each Sprint. What should the Scrum Master do?
Answer: Decline and encourage the Development Team to self-organize and pull work based on the Sprint Goal
Scrum teams self-organize to determine how work is done; assigning tasks undermines this core principle.
A developer tells the Scrum Master privately that the team's estimate process feels coercive—senior developers dominate and others just agree. What should the Scrum Master do?
Answer: Introduce estimation techniques such as Planning Poker that surface independent estimates before discussion
Techniques like Planning Poker reveal independent estimates simultaneously, reducing anchoring and peer pressure during estimation.
Which outcome BEST signals that a Scrum Master has successfully coached an organization toward agility?
Answer: Teams continuously inspect and adapt both their product and their processes without Scrum Master prompting
Self-sustaining inspection and adaptation without external prompting is the hallmark of an organization that has internalized agility.
A Scrum Master observes that the organization's culture rewards individual heroics and overtime over sustainable pace. What is the MOST impactful long-term action?
Answer: Work with leadership to shift incentive structures and recognition toward team outcomes and sustainable delivery
Changing incentive structures at the leadership level is the only intervention that durably shifts organizational culture.