An adaptive project manager is handling a five-sprint cycle to deliver a minimum viable product (MVP). After the third sprint, the productivity of the team drops to 30% due to a change in the way the

Question

Options

• AThe team picked up technical debt items in the third sprint as technical debt can only be picked up after completing two sprints.
• BTwo of the team members have been working in silos using different methods to validate their performance.
• CTwo of the team members were asked to do multitasking, which they did not do in the previous two sprints.
• DThe team velocity was measured in the third sprint since the tool to measure velocity was introduced only in the third sprint.

• A
  8% (3)
• B
  67% (24)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  19% (7)

Explanation

Two team members working in silos using different validation methods (B) directly violates core agile principles of collaboration, transparency, and cross-functional teamwork. In adaptive (agile) frameworks, self-organizing teams must work collectively and share methods-when members operate in isolation, it breaks the feedback loops, creates inconsistencies, and degrades the team's collective velocity and output quality. Option A is incorrect because there is no agile rule that limits technical debt items to after two sprints. Option C (multitasking) can hurt productivity, but multitasking is generally discouraged from sprint one-it would not represent a change causing a drop in sprint three. Option D is incorrect because velocity measurement tools do not cause productivity drops; measuring velocity is a tracking activity, not a change to how work is performed.

No community discussion yet for this question.