Scrum Framework

Correct Answer: Facilitate a discussion between the two team members after the standup to openly address the issue and find a solution.

The Scrum Master's role is to facilitate discussions and help the team resolve conflicts, not to assign tasks or to reprimand team members. Therefore, facilitating a discussion between the two team members after the standup to openly address the issue and find a solution is the best approach. Assigning a different task to the team member being blamed, expressing dissatisfaction and reprimanding the team member openly during the standup, or ignoring the conflict and hoping it resolves on its own, do not align with the role of Scrum Master or the principles of Scrum. The Scrum Master should work to create an environment where team members feel safe raising issues, and where conflicts can be addressed openly and constructively.

Correct Answer: The Product Owner should work closely with the team to refine the user stories.

The Product Owner should work closely with the team to refine the user stories. This is the most appropriate approach as it maintains the roles and responsibilities defined in agile frameworks. The Product Owner is responsible for defining the user stories and the team is responsible for working on them. Collaborating to refine the user stories encourages open communication and delivers more value to the project. On the other hand, the rest of the answers are not proper per Scrum. Proceeding with the Sprint as planned could result in scope creep or wasted resources. The team completing the stories for the Product Owner is crossing boundaries of their responsibilities. Lastly, cancelling the meeting is an overreacting decision as refining user stories is part of the process and can be done collaboratively without cancelling scheduled activities.

Correct Answer: Coach the new member about Scrum framework, its values, principles, and practices.

The correct answer emphasizes the Scrum Master's role in coaching and mentoring not just the new member but the entire team, on the Scrum framework, including its values, principles, and practices. This helps the new member to effectively integrate into the team and the Scrum process. The wrong answers, although related to learning and development within Scrum, either shift the responsibility away from the Scrum Master, dilute the focus on Scrum fundamentals, or misunderstand the learning process by emphasizing self-learning or non-specific team activities.