You are the Scrum Master for four Scrum Teams working on one product. Several of the developers notify you that their teams will need full-time help of an external technical specialist in the…

Question

Options

• AHaving enough work for all Development Team members.
• BThe benefit of Development Teams solving the problem themselves and the ability to produce
• CMaintaining a consistent velocity.
• DHiring additional resources to fill the void in skillset.

• A
  8% (2)
• B
  46% (12)
• C
  15% (4)
• D
  31% (8)

Explanation

Option B is correct because the Scrum Master's primary concern should be whether bringing in an external specialist undermines the team's self-sufficiency and long-term capability - a core Scrum value - and whether that dependency creates a bottleneck that harms the team's ability to deliver a "Done" increment.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is a project management concern, not a Scrum Master concern; Scrum Masters focus on process and team health, not workload balancing.
• C velocity is a team metric used for planning, not something to be "maintained" as a goal - optimizing for velocity over adaptability misunderstands Scrum.
• D hiring is an organizational/HR decision outside the Scrum Master's role, and it doesn't address the underlying question of team self-organization.

Memory tip: Remember the Scrum Master is a coach, not a manager. Whenever an answer involves managing headcount, tracking metrics as ends in themselves, or assigning work, it's almost certainly wrong. The right answer will always touch on team empowerment, transparency, or adherence to Scrum values.

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