PAL-I Professional Agile Leadership Certification Exam Questions and Answers

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping stakeholders informed and happy.

Helping the Scrum Team to improve their ability to deliver.

Directing the Developers.

Managing the project and ensuring that the work meets the commitments to the stakeholders.

Maximizing the value of the work the Scrum Team delivers.

It helps organizations to deliver more quickly.

It helps organizations reduce cost.

It helps organizations to deliver on commitments.

It helps organizations better deliver value and satisfy customers.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the Scrum Master for this team is not making this team as productive as the others.

No, this is not cause for concern - velocity is not a meaningful measurement of the value delivered by agile teams.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the Product Owner for the team in question is not pushing the team hard enough.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the team in question has not calibrated their story points with the rest of the teams.

Yes, this is cause for concern - the team in question is performing worse than the rest.

No, this is not cause for concern - the team in question will probably increase their velocity over time.

Empirical approaches work fine for small teams and simple problems, but cannot scale to large, complex problems.

Projects succeed when they spend additional time defining and reviewing requirements.

Projects succeed when they spend additional time identifying and mitigating risk.

Delivering a solution and gathering feedback provides valuable information to plan the next step.

To improve a team’s focus.

To improve the exchange of expertise within the Scrum Team.

To improve team collaboration.

To improve utilization.

To make forecasting more consistent.

Work with other team managers to trade people between teams to address the skill shortage.

Hire external consultants to fill the Scrum Team’s skills gap.

Recommend that the subject matter expert raise the skills gap concern with the Scrum Team but leave the decision on what to do with the Scrum Team and offer to support them as needed.

Talk to other experts in the subject matter expert’s area of expertise to determine whether the original subject matter expert’s perspective is valid.