An agile team wants to skip the daily stand-up because they feel it is a waste of time. How should the project manager (acting as Scrum Master) respond?

Answer options:

Allow them to skip it; they are self-organizing.

Force them to attend and take attendance.

Change it to a weekly meeting.

Explore why they feel it is a waste and help them improve the meeting's value while maintaining the practice.

How to approach this question

Balance 'Rules' (Governance) with 'Coaching' (Agile).

Full Answer

D.Explore why they feel it is a waste and help them improve the meeting's value while maintaining the practice.✓ Correct

Task 14 involves determining appropriate governance. In Scrum, the events are mandatory governance elements. The PM's role is to ensure they are valuable, not to remove them.

Common mistakes

Misinterpreting 'self-organization' as 'do whatever you want' (A).

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