Scrum Implementation

Correct Answer: Review the team's velocity and consider increasing the workload for future sprints.

The best course of action when a development team consistently completes their sprint goals early would be to 'Review the team's velocity and consider increasing the workload for future sprints'. This option allows for a reassessment of the team's capabilities, and an adjustment of sprint goals to match their current velocity. Encouraging a team to slow down or pace out their work isn't an effective agile approach since it doesn't maximize productivity. Similarly, doing nothing won't necessarily preserve this overperformance in the long run. Lastly, asking the team to take on tasks from the next sprint breaches agile principles, as this interferes with sprint planning and could lead to an unsustainable pace for the team.

Correct Answer: Leave the task unfinished in this sprint and reprioritize it for the next sprint.

In Scrum, when a team is not able to complete a task within a sprint due to unforeseen technical challenges, the best course of action is to 'Leave the task unfinished in this sprint and reprioritize it for the next sprint'. As each sprint is time-boxed, it is not advisable to extend it or to ask the team to work overtime to complete the task. This respects the team's work-life balance and protects them from burnout. 'Moving the task to the Product Backlog and forgetting it' is not optimal since the task may still have value and relevance to the project. 'Discarding the task entirely as too difficult' is not the most effective approach, as scrum encourages teams to learn and overcome challenges.

Correct Answer: Encourage the team to come up with potential solutions and facilitate a discussion with the stakeholders about these issues

The Scrum Master's role is to facilitate communication and coordination among team members and stakeholders. Therefore the approach should be to encourage the team to come up with potential solutions, rather than taking on the responsibility himself (which can create a hierarchical communication structure counter to Agile principles), ignoring the issues (which is irresponsible and counter-productive), or escalating the issue to upper management (which may prevent the team from learning how to effectively solve their own problems and improve their communication skills).