Scrum Product Backlog

Correct Answer: The Product Owner should immediately reprioritize the Product Backlog, bringing items delivering the highest value to the top.

The primary responsibility of a Product Owner in Scrum is to maximize the value delivered by the product for which he or she is responsible. This can be achieved by prioritizing the Product Backlog in a way that the highest value items are developed first. Therefore, if the Product Owner sees that the items are not well prioritized according to value, he or she should immediately reprioritize the Product Backlog, bringing items delivering the highest value to the top. Discarding the backlog and starting anew, would be drastic and unnecessary. Leaving the backlog as it is contradicts the role of a Product Owner. Prioritizing backlog items based on complexity regardless of their value is also incorrect, as the main factor for prioritization should be the value delivered, not the complexity of the tasks.

Correct Answer: The Product Owner should evaluate the suggestions, discuss it with the stakeholders and, if beneficial, update the Product Backlog, even if this leads to significant changes.

The appropriate approach when a high value, goal-aligned suggestion is made by end users necessitating extensive changes in the Product Backlog, is for the Product Owner to evaluate the suggestions. It is part of the Product Owner's role to discuss such proposals with stakeholders, and if it is determined to be beneficial, they should be open to updating the Product Backlog, despite the potential major changes it could bring about. Other answers are inaccurate because simply ignoring a potentially valuable suggestion because of required changes (second answer) is not coherent with agile and Scrum values, which promote taking customer feedback into account for continuous improvement. Adding the suggestion to a future backlog (third answer) might cause a delay to incorporating a high-value feature that aligns with the product's goals. Lastly, allowing end-users to modify the Product Backlog directly (fourth answer) violates the basic Scrum framework in which the responsibility of refining and prioritizing the backlog lies with the Product Owner.

Correct Answer: The incomplete items should be returned to the Product Backlog for future consideration.

In the Scrum framework, if after a sprint is concluded, the team notices a few items marked 'done' are not actually complete, the best course of action is to return these items to the Product Backlog. This is because in Scrum, you want to ensure what is delivered in each sprint is of full quality and completed. If something was marked 'done' but wasn't fully complete, it means it requires more work. Scrum gives priority to flexibility and responding to change, so moving the incomplete items back to the Product Backlog and bringing them into a future sprint to be worked on is the right approach. The other options do not follow Scrum principles: 'Mark the items as done and move on' is not a right option as it means ignoring the issue which will lead to product problems in long term. 'Move the items to the next sprint's backlog' implies that the backlog for the next sprint is not already planned or can be changed easily which is against the Scrum principles. Planning for a sprint is done during the sprint planning meeting and all decisions are made then. Items just can't be added to the sprint backlog once the planning is done. 'Ignore the items since they've already been marked as done' is similar to the second option and against Scrum framework as it avoids the issue instead of tackling it.