The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning to gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?

Question

Options

• ASince the team has extra time, notify the product owner and secure approval for the extra work on
• BEncourage the team to document the improvement and prioritize it for the upcoming iteration,
• CInstruct the Scrum Master to have the team use the extra time to complete the extra feature work
• DNotify the product owner and have the product owner verify the backlog priority, then encourage

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  7% (4)
• C
  73% (40)
• D
  16% (9)

Explanation

Gold-plating - adding unrequested enhancements beyond what was agreed - is wasteful and violates agile principles of delivering only what the customer values. The Scrum Master should redirect the team's extra capacity toward pulling additional backlog items into the sprint, which delivers genuine value. Option A wastes time seeking approval for gold-plating. Option B defers the work unnecessarily when capacity exists now. Option D introduces a delay by requiring product owner verification before the team can act, whereas the Scrum Master can immediately redirect the team to the prioritized backlog.

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