QuestionQ218

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An agile practitioner observes that a project’s count of open defects rises after each successive iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?

  • A Create an issue on the backlog to investigate the root cause and assign a team resource to resolve the issue immediately.
  • B Request increased velocity from the development team to clear off some defects and stay on track with the current iteration’s work.
  • C Ask the team to determine how to adapt to this increase in the next retrospective.
  • D Stop work on in-progress user stories to clear defects from the product owner and increase velocity on defect resolution.
Explanation

A retrospective is the forum for the team to inspect recurring quality and process problems, identify useful improvements, and adapt its way of working for the next iteration. A persistent increase in open defects warrants this team-led continuous-improvement response.

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