Product Owner

Correct Answer: Gina should discuss the sprint retrospective's findings with the team to identify any impediments or areas for improvement in the process.

In Scrum, when a team is consistently failing to meet sprint goals, it is essential to engage with the team to understand the root causes. This includes revisiting the retrospectives' outcomes to find process improvements, rather than hastily altering team composition, extending sprints, or dramatically shifting methodologies, which can disrupt the team's rhythm and ignore underlying issues. Adjusting the Definition of Done or setting unrealistically high velocity targets does not address the core problems and might lead to reduced quality or burnout.

Correct Answer: Value delivered to stakeholders

In Scrum, the product owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered to stakeholders. This is done by continuously reassessing and reprioritizing the product backlog based on multiple factors - the primary one being 'Value delivered to stakeholders'. Therefore, this is the critical factor Peter should consider when prioritizing the product backlog. While the 'Size of the work items', 'Complexity of the work items' and 'Order in which work items were added' might influence the ordering to some degree, these factors are secondary and serve to help break ties or make minor adjustments in the priority set primarily by business value. The key is that value delivery, not effort or complexity or order of appearance, should be the main driver of what gets worked on next.

Correct Answer: Collaborate with the development team and ensure they understand the product vision, objectives and align their tasks accordingly.

Jessica should 'Collaborate with the development team and ensure they understand the product vision, objectives and align their tasks accordingly.' This is because the product owner is the person responsible for communicating the product vision and ensuring alignment with the team. The Scrum framework encourages collaboration and transparency great for problem-solving. The responsibility to ensure that the development team understands the product's vision lies with the product owner, not the Scrum Master. Therefore, 'Delegate the explanation of product vision to the Scrum Master.' is incorrect. 'Stop involving the development team in the decision-making process.' is also incorrect. The development team have a vital contribution to the decision-making process, and excluding them would defy an important principle of Scrum. 'Change the development team.' is incorrect as well. The development team isn't necessarily the issue here, but the miscommunication or misunderstanding of the product vision. Rather than changing the team, the Product Owner should focus on enhancing communication and ensuring alignment on goals.