Scrum Artifacts

Correct Answer: Reorient the team on the Daily Scrum's objectives, emphasizing collaboration for the next 24 hours and surfacing impediments.

The essence of the Daily Scrum is for the development team to plan their work for the next 24 hours and identify any impediments to progress, rather than providing status updates to each other or the Scrum Master. Therefore, the correct action is to reorient the team's understanding and practice of the Daily Scrum towards these goals. The wrong answers, while integrating various Scrum concepts such as team ownership of meetings, visual management tools, and preparation for meetings, do not directly address the core issue of shifting the meeting's focus from status updates to planning and collaboration.

Correct Answer: Guide the Product Owner and the team in understanding that changes during a Sprint can disrupt the team's focus. Encourage them to minimize changes to the Sprint Backlog once the Sprint has started.

The correct approach focuses on protecting the Sprint Backlog after the Sprint has begun to maintain focus and ensure Sprint Goals can be met without unnecessary disruptions. Changes can be expected but should be minimized once the Sprint starts to preserve the team's focus and commitment. The wrong answers propose methods that could potentially undermine the stability and predictability of the Sprint, diluting the team's focus and possibly impacting the achievement of the Sprint Goal.

Correct Answer: Set up a meeting with the Product Owner and the team to express the issues and encourage them to create backlog items with enough detail.

The best solution in this scenario would be to set up a meeting with the Product Owner and the team to express the issues and encourage them to create backlog items with enough detail. This promotes communication and collaboration, which are key tenants of the Agile and Scrum methodologies. Attempting to work with the vague backlog items would only result in low-quality output and frustration among team members. Elaborating the backlog items on your own, without involving the Product Owner, is not ideal either since the Product Owner is the one who is responsible for maintaining the Product Backlog. Finally, telling the team to simply bypass the Sprint could cause a delay in the release and is contrary to the ideology of continuous integration and delivery, which is a widely accepted best practice in Scrum environment.