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Your team uses Story Points to estimate User stories. Halfway through a Sprint, you are not seeing the progress you expected. The Team feels some Stories are not estimated correctly, when compared to other Stories. How should you address this?
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What is one of the most difficult challenges you face when transitioning your software development team to Scrum?
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Your organization found that the Product Owner is consistently under more pressure than the developments and other participants in the project. What is common solution for that?
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You are a project manager for a midsize software company, which still uses the Waterfall model. Your customer wants a new software project. When should you consider the use of Agile?
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A Scrum Team has agreed on the following definition of Potentially Shippable: Potentially Shippable increments must be tested and must meet the Conditions of Satisfaction provided by the Product Owner. Why is it important to include 'tested' in the definition of what is Potentially Shippable?
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The Product Owner informs the team that the release will be date-driven. What kind of buffer for uncertainty is most important to use in this type of release?
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Your company wants to be highly responsive to bug reports or feature requests from your customers. For your customers it is more important to have confidence in the date by which you promise to have a fix than an occasional quick fix. What part of Scrum allows you to have this predictability?
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When two companies merge, there is often a lack of communication and transparency between locations. What can best be done to reduce the risk of full-scale blow-ups between locations?
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A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance. One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators. What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?
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What is the recommended way of removing the resistance presented by skeptics?