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Sprint Planning

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Sprint Planning is an event in Scrum that defines what can be delivered in the upcoming Sprint and how that work will be achieved. Sprint Planning answers the following: What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint? How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be a…

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Question 1

The product owner presents a user story with complex requirements in the sprint planning meeting. The team is unsure whether they can deliver it within the sprint. What is the best solution?

Correct Answer: Break the user story into smaller, manageable stories and prioritize it.

Breaking the user story into smaller, manageable stories helps the team to understand the complexity better and prioritize it accordingly. Other options such as removal, ignoring, reassigning, delaying, or rewriting are not recommended as they do not address the complexity issue.

Question 2

A team realizes midway through the sprint planning meeting that the expected velocity for the upcoming sprint is significantly lower than usual due to team members' vacations. What should the team do?

Correct Answer: Adjust the sprint backlog to accommodate the reduced velocity.

When velocity is expected to be lower, the team should adjust the sprint backlog accordingly to ensure realistic goals. The other options are not feasible and cooperative solutions.

Question 3

After the sprint planning meeting, the team realizes that they have committed to more stories than they can complete within the sprint's timebox. What should they do?

Correct Answer: Revisit sprint planning, bring this to the product owner's attention, and collaboratively adjust the sprint backlog.

It is important for the team to discuss the sprint backlog with the product owner and collaboratively adjust it to match the team's capacity. Proceeding, dropping stories, requiring overtime, extending the sprint, or delegating are not advisable.

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