Evolving Advanced Scrum Master Role

SASM · 36 questions

• The city building-permits portal team still treats the Scrum Master as a people manager who assigns inspection-story owners. How should the Team Coach recast the role?
• After a missed PI Objective on the county tax-assessment ART, council staff ask who “owns” the team. Which accountability belongs to the Scrum Master / Team Coach?
• The municipal transit-fare Team Coach calendar is full of status PowerPoints to the transit board and empty of team events. What should the coach restore first as core role work?
• A clinic-registration team on the public-health immunization-registry ART keeps hitting an enterprise identity-provider blocker no team can fix alone. What should the Team Coach do?
• Product Management asks the parks-reservation Team Coach to write every Team PI Objective so “planning goes faster.” How should the coach respond?
• A new hire thinks the library-consortium digital-services Scrum Master replaces the Release Train Engineer on that ART. What distinction should the coach make?
• One experienced coach is split across the wastewater SCADA team and a lab-LIMS team during early SAFe adoption. What should leadership understand about that design?
• During a 911 CAD/RMS outage, the Team Coach starts approving every pull request “to keep control.” What is the problem with that move?
• An auditor asks what servant leadership looks like day-to-day on the school-district student-information team. Which picture is accurate?
• Finance wants the state DMV-licensing Team Coach to own the capital-budget spreadsheet line by line. What should the coach clarify?
• The city housing-voucher program considers cutting the Scrum Master and letting the Product Owner run standups and retrospectives. Why is that a poor substitute?
• Stakeholders praise the county elections-systems coach for keeping every clerk “100% busy.” How should the coach reframe success?
• The open-data and civic-engagement team never lets anyone but the coach facilitate. What should the Team Coach introduce?
• A developer on the fleet-telematics team asks the coach for the “right” way to split a GPS-replay story. How should the Team Coach respond?
• Trust is low on the water-billing portal team after a shutoff-notice defect. Which coaching attribute should the Team Coach treat as required, not optional?
• The snow-route operations team hides slipped stories until the iteration review. What should the Team Coach promote?
• The fire-inspection scheduling team is “Scrum-only” even though the coach is expected to educate beyond Scrum. What scope should an advanced Team Coach cover?
• Cross-team permit-plan-review dependencies pile up, so the food-safety inspections coach personally tracks every handoff. What should the Team Coach do instead?
• The court case-management team wants a chatbot to write all acceptance criteria so the Product Owner can skip refinement. How should the Team Coach treat the AI?
• A benefits-eligibility team uses a model to auto-split every epic into stories and then treats the output as the plan. What should the Team Coach insist on?
• After three 311-request-system retrospectives, the coach pastes notes into a model and presents the “top three experiments” as decided. What is required instead?
• The recycling-route optimization coach asks a general chatbot for “the SAFe rule” and gets a fabricated event. What should the coach do with that answer?
• Streetlight IoT telemetry including home-adjacent location pings is pasted into a public model to “summarize blockers.” What should the Team Coach stop?
• An emergency-shelter intake team’s retro comments, when summarized by AI, systematically downplay overnight-staff concerns. What should the Team Coach flag?
• Parking-enforcement product teams let a model generate and run the entire iteration-planning agenda unattended. What should the Team Coach reject?
• A business-licensing team coach uses a SAFe-aware assistant to look up Team Kanban guidance before a method conversation. How should the coach treat that lookup?
• Vital-records e-file coaches spend evenings writing status emails, and AI templates cut that admin work. What should they do with the time saved?
• Stormwater GIS coaches adopt AI meeting notes and then spend more time correcting the transcripts than they used to spend writing them. What should they do next?
• Public-works work-order teams start using unsanctioned models because nobody trained the coaches on approved tools. How should the SM/TC respond?
• Animal-control licensing stories include pet-owner addresses in prompt examples for an AI drafting helper. What should the SM/TC coach?
• Community-college enrollment coaches want AI to pre-write PI Planning team-breakout notes so the team can skip talking. What should the SM/TC advise?
• A model recommends that the bridge-inspection team stop pairing “to go faster,” which conflicts with built-in quality. How should the SM/TC treat that advice?
• Public-housing maintenance leadership wants AI-estimated story points treated as the team’s forecast. What should the SM/TC coach?
• Code-enforcement coaches ask for “proven prompts” to draft impediment-escalation notes. What should the SM/TC emphasize?
• Zoning-board workflow coaches generate several facilitation-option agendas with AI. How should they use those options?
• Grants-management Product Owners secretly use AI to rewrite Team PI Objectives without the team. What should the SM/TC coach?