Professional Scrum Master The Scrum Team Roles 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Developer consistently misses the Daily Scrum. Who is responsible for addressing this behavior?
- The Scrum Master must enforce attendance
- The Product Owner should escalate to management
- The Developers as a self-managing team (Correct answer)
- The Scrum Master should report it to HR
Correct answer: The Developers as a self-managing team
Developers are self-managing and collectively responsible for their own working norms, including Daily Scrum participation.
Question 2: The Product Owner is on vacation for two weeks. Who may reorder the Product Backlog?
- The Scrum Master can reorder it temporarily
- The Developers can reorder it based on technical priority
- No one — only the Product Owner may reorder the Product Backlog (Correct answer)
- The stakeholders can reorder it during the Product Owner's absence
Correct answer: No one — only the Product Owner may reorder the Product Backlog
The Product Owner is solely accountable for ordering the Product Backlog; this authority cannot be delegated without the Product Owner's explicit decision.
Question 3: Which statement best describes a cross-functional Scrum Team?
- Every Developer must have all the skills needed to build the product
- The team collectively has all the skills required to create value each Sprint (Correct answer)
- The team includes specialists from every department in the organization
- The Scrum Master must possess both technical and business skills
Correct answer: The team collectively has all the skills required to create value each Sprint
Cross-functional means the team as a whole possesses all necessary skills; no individual member must master everything.
Question 4: A manager asks the Scrum Master to assign specific tasks to individual Developers each Sprint. What should the Scrum Master do?
- Assign tasks as requested to maintain stakeholder trust
- Explain that Developers self-organize and select their own work (Correct answer)
- Escalate the issue to the Product Owner
- Create a RACI matrix to satisfy the manager's request
Correct answer: Explain that Developers self-organize and select their own work
Developers are self-managing and decide internally how to accomplish Sprint work; external task assignment undermines this principle.
Question 5: How many Product Owners can a single Scrum Team have?
- As many as needed to cover all stakeholder groups
- Exactly one (Correct answer)
- One primary and one backup
- It depends on the size of the Product Backlog
Correct answer: Exactly one
The Scrum Guide specifies exactly one Product Owner per Scrum Team to ensure clear accountability for maximizing product value.
Question 6: Stakeholders want to attend the Daily Scrum to monitor progress. What should the Scrum Master do?
- Allow them to attend so they feel included
- Schedule a separate status meeting for stakeholders
- Explain that the Daily Scrum is for Developers and protect the event accordingly (Correct answer)
- Ask the Product Owner to decide whether stakeholders may attend
Correct answer: Explain that the Daily Scrum is for Developers and protect the event accordingly
The Daily Scrum is an event for Developers; the Scrum Master protects it from outside interference while finding other ways to keep stakeholders informed.
Question 7: A Scrum Team is building software for an external client. The client insists on communicating directly with Developers to request new features. What is the correct Scrum approach?
- Developers should accept feature requests directly to build strong client relationships
- The Scrum Master should filter all client communication
- Stakeholder requests should flow through the Product Owner to the Product Backlog (Correct answer)
- The Scrum Master and Product Owner should share the responsibility of managing client requests
Correct answer: Stakeholder requests should flow through the Product Owner to the Product Backlog
The Product Owner is accountable for managing the Product Backlog and is the single point of contact for stakeholder requests to protect the Developers' focus.
Professional Scrum Master The Scrum Team Roles 2
A Developer consistently misses the Daily Scrum.
Who is responsible for addressing this behavior?