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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Page 11 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026

During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog.
What should the team do?

  1. Add this threshold requirement request as acceptance criteria in all impacted stories
  2. Create a spike story to analyze the impact of the threshold requirement on current stories
  3. Conduct design planning session to review the performance threshold requirement
  4. Identify the tasks for the new performance threshold requirement

Answer(s): B



A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concerns resurface.
What should the team have done to improve retrospective outcomes?

  1. Invited subject matter experts (SMEs)
  2. Conducted problem detections to determine root causes
  3. Measured and reported the outcome of improvement actions to the team
  4. Kept track of all current issues in a log, and then reviewed their progress at the end of every iteration

Answer(s): B



The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog.
What should the Scrum Master do next?

  1. Ask the project manager to work with the product owner to help generate clearer stories in the future
  2. Develop guidelines to prevent future occurrences
  3. During the retrospective, discuss the issue and create an action plan to avoid it in the future
  4. Allow the team to devise a corrective action without external intervention

Answer(s): C



An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables; however, issues arise when the deliverables are integrated.
What should the agile practitioner do?

  1. Foster stronger communication by hosting cross-organizational meetings between the two teams
  2. Suggest merging the teams to avoid misunderstandings
  3. Create stories from full technical specifications to avoid ambiguity
  4. Co-locate the teams to encourage osmotic communication

Answer(s): D



An agile team discovers a new risk and identifies that its impact may be severe.
What should an agile practitioner recommend?

  1. Add a goal to the current iteration to fully mitigate or control the risk
  2. Balance risk reduction and value adding activities in the next iteration
  3. Continue with the current plan to maintain team velocity
  4. Update the risk register and seek direction from a risk specialist

Answer(s): A



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