Time Boxing

Correct Answer: Use historical data and lessons learned to refine estimation techniques

Using historical data and lessons learned will help the team develop better estimation techniques, leading to more accurate timeboxes. The other options will not directly address the issue of poor estimation.

Correct Answer: Re-evaluate timeboxes and prioritize tasks

Re-evaluating timeboxes and prioritizing tasks will help the team focus on important tasks and reallocate resources. Other options could lead to decreased quality or increased stress on team members.

Correct Answer: Reassess the task's scope with the Product Owner.

In a Scrum environment, when a team encounters a task that cannot be completed within the originally estimated time-box, the correct approach is to reassess the task's scope with the Product Owner. This promotes collaboration and transparency, key principles of Scrum, and allows for a re-evaluation of the task's priority, scope, and necessity, ensuring that the team's efforts are always aligned with the product goals. Automatically extending the time-box disregards the Scrum principle of maintaining regular, fixed-length sprints, which can lead to scope creep and delays in deliverables. Dividing the task into smaller segments without reassessing its scope or priority might result in the team working on less important parts of the product, impacting the product's value delivery. Prioritizing the task in the next sprint without consulting the Product Owner undermines the role of the Product Owner and the collaborative decision-making process in Scrum, potentially leading to a misalignment between the work done and the product vision.