Scrum Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) - PAL-I Exam Practice Test

A. Keep high value features high in the Product Backlog.

B. Prevent changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

C. Ensure the meetings start and end at the proper time.

D. Facilitate Scrum Team decisions and remove impediments.

E. Run the Daily Scrum.

A. Assign people to teams in such a way that balances skills, experience, and seniority as evenly as possible.

B. Group people together who already know each other from previous teams.

C. Bring together interested people, discuss product goals, remind teams that they need to balance skills and experience, and let the teams self-organize.

D. Group people together who have a similar skill set to maximize efficiency and utilization.

E. Group people together based on which components of the system they are most familiar with.

A. They consist of team members who work only on one product and team at a time, so that they can focus.

B. They consist of team members who have broad enough skills to do many kinds of work, but who are not deeply specialized in any one area.

C. They consist of people who have mostly deeply specialized skills.

D. They consist of team members who are shared across multiple initiatives at a time, since then they can take advantage of time otherwise spent waiting to do productive work.

A. Cross-functional teams encourage team members to step outside their comfort zone to get things done.

B. The team spends less time waiting on people outside the team to get things done.

C. Cross-functional teams help team members develop deep technical specializations.

D. Team members have a greater opportunity to deliver product increments that deliver value to users.

E. Team members have more opportunities to grow their skills by learning from others.

A. Comparing team performance often leads to unhealthy behaviors. Instead, focus on identifying and eliminating impediments that hinder team performance.

B. You need to normalize the estimates across the Scrum Teams and, based on that, create a balanced scorecard.

C. The one with the highest velocity is performing the best.

D. You need to look at several trends of different measures such as velocity, defects, and technical debt to get a picture of how the team is performing.