A team estimates a Story using the Planning Poker technique. The team decides to allocate five Story points to the Story, because the Developers estimated two points and the Testers estimated three…

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Options

• APoints are assigned by the Scrum Master, not by the team.
• BPoints are assigned for the overall Story, not for parts of the Story.
• CPoints are never estimated, but always determined beforehand.
• DThe team forgets to ask the Product Owner about the estimate.

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  90% (36)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

In Planning Poker, Story points represent the total effort for the entire Story as a team, not a sum of individual role-based estimates - the Developers' 2 points and Testers' 3 points should have been discussed and converged into a single shared number, not added together, making B correct.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is wrong because in Scrum, the Scrum Master facilitates but never assigns estimates - only the Developers (the whole team doing the work) estimate.
• C is wrong because estimation is an inherent part of Planning Poker and Sprint Planning; points are not predetermined.
• D is wrong because the Product Owner clarifies the Story but does not participate in the estimate itself.

Memory tip: Think of Story points like rating a movie as a group - you don't average the critic's score and the audience's score separately; you discuss and land on one collective rating for the whole film.

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