EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM) Dumps Questions

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The EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM) exam is designed to test the knowledge and skills of professionals in Agile Scrum methodologies. The exam assesses the understanding of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and Agile frameworks such as Kanban and Lean. The certification provides an in-depth understanding of Agile Scrum practices and prepares professionals to work in Agile teams.To prepare for the EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM) exam, it is recommended to use EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM) Dumps Questions from Certspots. The dumps questions offer a comprehensive review of the exam topics and provide practice questions to assess knowledge and identify areas for improvement. By using EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM) Dumps Questions from Certspots, professionals can gain the necessary knowledge to pass the exam and earn the EXIN Agile Scrum Master certification.

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1. A Scrum team is using a bum-down chart to track their progress. During the sprint, the graph looks like this.

What is certain about this sprint?

The Developers are doing less than they anticipated

The Developers are on track to finish the sprint goal

The Developers have pulled too many items into the sprint

The Developers have run into a roadblock and are stuck

2. A team is transitioning to Scrum Sam. one of the team members really liked the way the team was working before He is actively speaking out against changing the way of working Sam is a diehard.

Addy is the Scrum Master of the team and wants to help Sam overcome his resistance

What is the best way to help a diehard overcome resistance?

Acknowledge Sam’s fears and confront them and make him dissatisfied with the original way of working

Do not let Sam talk in meetings move him to another team or if that all fails, maybe even fire him

Make sure Sam understands Scrum, give him some time to adjust and appoint a champion diehard

Model the desired behaviors, involve Sam in team activities and praise him for doing the right thing

3. Gary, a Development Team member, wants to know how long a Daily Scrum is.

What's the timebox for a Daily Scrum?

4 hours or less

15 minutes

2 hours

1 hour

4. Which of the following items is not time-boxed?

Sprint Review

Sprint

Sprint Planning

Backlog Maintenance

Sprint Retrospective

Daily Scrum

5. Which of the following statements about Release Planning Session is/are Correct?

A) Release Planning Sessions are conducted to develop a plan that defines when various sets of usable functionality or products will be delivered to the customer.

B) Release Planning Sessions enable the Scrum Team to have an overview of the releases and delivery schedule for the product they are developing.

C) Whether the releases will follow a phased deployment pattern or a continuous deployment pattern depends on the stakeholder requirements.

D) Release Planning Sessions should produce a detailed Release Plan for the entire project.

A and

and

A and D

6. The Developers want a way to keep track of who is doing what and which tasks still need to be done.

Which information radiator is most suitable here?

A Gantt chart

A Kanban board

A sprint backlog

7. Your organization found that the Product Owner is consistently under more pressure than the developments and other participants in the project.

What is common solution for that?

Compiling a list with Product Owner tasks

Rotating the Scrum Master role

Using a Product Owner team

8. You are the Scrum Master for a new project. This project will have 80 developers contributing to the product.

As a Scrum Master, how would you divide a group of 80 people into multiple Development Teams?

Create ten teams of eight people per team.

Create eight teams of 10 people per team.

Coach the Development Team about being self-organizing, but also coach the team to form based on relationships from past projects.

Tell the 80 developers about the product, the product vision, and rules of the Scrum framework, then allow the 80 developers to self-organize into separate teams.

9. Company ABC always works in the following way: The business chooses a set of requirements that it believes will add business value. It communicates the requirements to the IT organization. The IT organization responds back with a plan and estimates of cost and schedule. The business agrees to that plan. The IT organization executes the plan and delivers a product to the business.

What type of framework is company ABC following?

DevOps

DSDM

Lean

Waterfall

10. You are the Scrum Master for your organization and you're training the Product Owner and the Development Team on the rules of Scrum. After a few Sprints in the project, the Development Team is getting used to processes and flow of the work. With their confidence, the Development Team has decided that a Sprint Retrospective is no longer needed in the project.

What should you do regarding the team's desire to no longer have a Sprint Retrospective?

You should demand the Development Team host a retrospective as it is a rule of Scrum.

You should discuss the situation with the Product Owner to see how she feels about no longer having a Sprint Retrospective.

You should require the key Development Team members to participate in the Retrospective to shorten its duration.

You should do nothing as the Development Team is self-organized and self-managed.

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11. What is the recommended way of removing the resistance presented by skeptics?

Appoint a champion skeptic

Fire them

Move them

Reiterate and reinforce the commitment

12. Which of the following are important selection criteria while choosing a Scrum Master?

Leadership style, problem-solving, availability, commitment

Stress management, people management, communication, loyalty

Responsiveness, problem-solving, facilitator, negotiation

Intuitiveness, people management, reliability, facilitator

13. One week passes by, and less than half of the Product Backlog (requirements) is recorded. The Product Owner believes that it's best to start the first Sprint with this information, rather than waiting for the whole backlog to be completed.

What should we do?

Yes it's a good time to start the first Sprint

No, we should wait for the whole backlog to be completed before starting the Sprints

14. Which of the following is true about a Prioritized Product Backlog?

A Prioritized Product Backlog should not have the most valuable User Story on top, because it could be risky.

Greater value items, although potentially riskier, are given higher priority in a Prioritized Product Backlog.

Uncertainty should be ruled out of the Risk-adjusted Prioritized Product Backlog.

For a Sprint to succeed, User Stories picked for a Sprint should be interlinked with those selected for subsequent Sprints.

15. As a Scrum Master you should be familiar with all roles and responsibilities of a Scrum Project.

Which role can also be described as a Value Optimizer for the project?

Product Owner

Scrum Master lite

Scrum Master

Development Team

16. Feedback loops are opportunities to discuss project information among the Scrum team.

All of the following are examples of a feedback loop except for which one?

Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Sprint Planning Meeting

Refinement Meeting

Sprint Review Meeting

17. Which of the following is a tool that can be used for communicating information related to risks?

Risk Burnup chart.

Risk Burndown chart.

Risk Progress chart.

Risk Tracking chart.

18. A CEO asks the Development Team to add a new item to the Sprint.

What should the Development Team do in response?

Refer it to the Product Owner

Add the item to the Sprint

Replace an item of the Sprint with the new one

Add the item to the Product Backlog

19. A team finds bugs in a feature.

What is the best action to take?

Create a task “Correct bugs” and estimate it.

Create a task “Correct bugs” and let the Product Owner prioritize it.

Create a User Story “As a client I want a zero defect product” and estimate it.

Create a User Story “As a client I want a zero defect product” and let the Product Owner prioritize it.

20. A company is transitioning to working with Scrum Adnana was working as the project manager but will now take on the role of Scrum Master She will be working with new co-workers In the Scrum team

Which project management activity or activities will Adnana keep doing as the Scrum Master of the new team?

Ensuring impediment removal and assisting the team

Ensuring that the project meets the set objectives

Managing scope, costs quality, and related risks

Managing stakeholder communication and reporting

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21. You are the Scrum Master and you're coaching the Development Team on creating a Sprint Goal. The team doesn't understand why they need to create a Sprint Goal.

What should you tell the Development Team?

The Development Team needs a Sprint Goal to create a communications plan of who does what and when.

The Development Team needs a Sprint Goal to communicate exactly who'll do what in the Sprint.

The Development Team needs a Sprint Goal to create synergy among the Development Team members.

The Development Team needs a Sprint Goal so they'll see the value and importance of completing all of the user stories selected for the Sprint meet the definition of done.

22. The Scrum Master must ensure that a sustainable pace is maintained throughout every Sprint.

What does sustainable pace mean in the context of Scrum?

Effort spent in each Sprint increases gradually, as the team gains momentum to deliver.

Effort spent in each Sprint decreases gradually, as the team becomes more familiar with the expected deliverables.

Effort expended in the present Sprint is similar to the effort spent on the previous Sprints, and is a comfortable pace for the team.

Effort spent in the Sprint is directly proportional to the cost incurred in the Sprint.

23. Which of the following is true about Scrum?

Continuous feedback is provided through the Groom Prioritized Product Backlog process

Deliverables are improved progressively by time-boxing non-essential work

The Conduct Daily Standup process leads to greater levels of motivation among team members.

Emphasis on risk mitigation and detailed planning ensures a customer-oriented framework.

24. Your company has discovered that it takes more than high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel. It also takes speed and flexibility. This calls for a different approach: you are aware that the current process is not delivering acceptable results.

What would be the next activity after becoming aware?

Ability to succeed with Scrum

Desire to adopt Scrum as a way to address current problems

Promotion of Scrum through sharing experiences so that we remember and others can see our successes

Transfer of the implications of using Scrum throughout the company

25. Marty is coaching the Development Team on being completely done with the user stories in a Sprint.

What should Marty tell the Development Team regarding the completeness of a Product Backlog?

The item is done when the item has no work remaining to be released.

The item is done when the product customer accepts the item.

The item is done when the Product Owner agrees that the item can be released.

The item is done when the Scrum Master agrees it is complete.

26. What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?

The Scrum Master does not have the required people skills.

The Scrum Master cannot stay away from critical path activities.

The Scrum Master tries to push through changes to the process.

27. When reviewing, the learn discovers that they have not estimated story 3 correctly. In hindsight they should have estimated that user story as 8 story points.

What should the team do?

Re-estimate the velocity of the team as 14 story points

Re-estimate user story 2 as 2 story points

Re-estimate user story 3 as 8 points

The team should not re-estimate anything

28. A Scrum Team has agreed on the following definition of Potentially Shippable:

Potentially Shippable increments must be tested and must meet the Conditions of Satisfaction provided by the Product Owner.

Why is it important to include ‘tested’ in the definition of what is Potentially Shippable?

Increments are not ‘Done’ without testing for bugs.

Increments that have passed these tests will be sent out.

Testing shows how well the increments are integrated.

The increments must be tested to be cohesive.

29. Peter is a Scrum Master on a software development project for a premier chain of hospitals. It is his

responsibility to conduct Daily Standups.

Which of the following is not a QUESTION NO: answered by the Scrum

Team during the Daily Standups?

What will I work on today?

What did I complete yesterday?

Am I facing any impediments or obstacles?

How will I solve the impediments that I am facing?

30. It is not allowed to change the members of the Development Team.

True

False

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31. Which of the following is a process in the initiate phase of Scrum?

Identify Scrum Master and Stakeholder(s)

Estimate User Stories

Conduct Daily Standup

Commit User Stories

32. A new team member Alisha joins a team Alisha has worked in Scrum teams before as a Scrum Master Her stones make the team enthusiastic about Scrum. They would like to try working in an Agile environment and slowly transition to Scrum

The team asks their manager to support their experiments with Scrum. The manager is hesitant about it but will allow the team to try Since the manager feels a little apprehensive he would still like to divide the tasks over (he team members It is clear he does not fully trust the team members to make it work

Should this team try out a more Agile way of working now?

Yes, because Alisha used to be a Scrum Master and can teach the team how to work in an Agile way

Yes, because the team is very enthusiastic and that makes right now the perfect time to transition to Scrum

No, because the team is not formally trained in any Agile framework and this is necessary for success

No. because the team must have the team manager's trust to be self-managing and make Scrum work

33. Lynn is the Scrum Master for her organization and she's working with seven Development Teams on a single Scrum project.

What statement best describes the starting date for these seven Development Teams?

All Development Teams should start their Sprints on the same day.

Each Development Team should start their Sprint by staggering their start date by one week.

All Development Teams must select their sprint duration by the assigned project start date.

Each Development Team will participate in Sprint Planning to determine which Development Team should start in a specific order.

34. How long is a Sprint Retrospective in a one month Sprint?

4 hours

1 hour

It is not time-boxed (as long as needed)

8 hours

3 hours

35. Why is a Product Owner not allowed to define the workload of the Development Team for a new Sprint?

This conflicts with the principle of Self-Management of the Development Team.

The Product Owner does not know the velocity of the Development Team.

The Scrum Master is responsible for the velocity of the Development Team.

The Scrum Master and the Product Owner must agree on the workload of the Development Team.

36. What is Quality Assurance?

The evaluation of processes and standards that govern quality management in a project to ensure that they continue to be relevant.

Identification and definition of the product required from a Sprint and the project along with the Acceptance Criteria, any development methods to be followed, and the key responsibilities of Scrum Team members in regards to quality.

The execution of the planned quality activities by the Scrum Team in the process of creating deliverables that are potentially shippable.

A Scrum approach in which the team learns from experience and stakeholder engagement to constantly keep the Prioritized Product Backlog updated with any changes in requirements.

37. An organization wants to transition to Scrum They want to make sure this transition goes well

What factor helps most to ensure a smooth transition?

Assessing the Agile maturity level of the organization

Ensuring that all teams are trained in the Scrum framework

Having leadership create and demonstrate an Agile mindset

Setting up autonomous self-regulating, cross-functional teams

38. Maria is one of the Scrum Master for a rail-road reservation system program. She facilitates the Daily Standup Meetings to enable the Scrum Team to discuss issues faced by individual members, and seek solutions to motivate the team.

Which of the following represents the mandatory outputs of Conduct Daily Standup process?

Updated Sprint Burndown chart and Impediment log.

Updated Scrumboard and Unapproved Change Requests.

Updated Sprint Burndown chart and Motivated Scrum Team.

Updated Scrumboard and Dependencies.

39. One of the responsibilities of the Scrum Master is to ensure that the Product Owner does not change the Acceptance Criteria of a committed User Story in the middle of a Sprint.

In this regard, which of the following statements about Acceptance Criteria is correct?

User Story Workshops are held as part of Sprint Review.

Acceptance Criteria provide the objectivity required for the User Story to be considered as Done or not Done.

The Scrum Master defines and communicates the Acceptance Criteria to the Scrum Team.

During the Sprint Retrospect Meeting, the Acceptance Criteria provide context for the Product Owner to decide if a User Story has been completed satisfactorily.

40. A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance. One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators.

What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?

No special activities are necessary, because these people will embrace the change.

Provide more prestige or power for the people that resist in order to get them to comply.

Provide predictability of the transition process and keep certain best practices.

Provide training and run a pilot project that includes these people on the team.

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41. You are the Scrum Master for your organization and you're coaching the Development Team on the work they'll need to do in the Sprint.

What does a Development Team deliver at the end of a Sprint?

The Development Team identification all the of prioritized items from the Product Backlog for the next u Sprint.

The Development Team will offer releasable code.

The Development Team will offer detailed plan for the Product Backlog.

The Development Team will offer an increment of working software that meets the definition of w done.

42. A team struggles to keep the sprint planning meeting within the timebox. They spend a lot of time on planning the work to finish their sprint within the expected timeframe

Who should ensure the meeting stays within the timebox?

The Developers because the sprint planning meeting is a meeting where they should take lead

The organization because they should facilitate ways to help the team stay within the timebox

The Product Owner, because the Product Owner must prepare the team for the sprint planning

The Scrum Master because the Scrum Master is accountable for ensuring an efficient meeting

43. The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration.

Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrum meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

The team can choose anyone

The whole team

44. In Scrum, it is advised to keep Scrum teams relatively small. The reason is that smaller teams are more productive.

Why are smaller teams generally more productive?

Because small teams are less likely to form sub-groups everyone's contribution is more visible and coordinating is easier

Because small teams can switch between different projects each sprint more easily, which helps add the most business value

Because small teams usually have Developers with similar backgrounds and technical capabilities which speeds up communication

45. A Scrum Team is estimating the prioritized User Stories. Each team member has been assigned a deck of numbered cards, in which each card is numbered in a sequence. The team members use these cards to assess a particular User Story by picking and showing a card from the deck that represents their estimate for the User Story.

Which estimation tool is the Scrum Team using?

Fist of Five.

Wideband Delphi.

Affinity Estimation.

Planning Poker.

46. Your team uses Story Points to estimate User stories.

Halfway through a Sprint, you are not seeing the progress you expected. The Team feels some Stories are not estimated correctly, when compared to other Stories.

How should you address this?

Complete incomplete Stories

Increase or re-estimate Velocity

Re-estimate all small Stories

Switch to using Ideal days

47. Suppose you are a Scrum Master or a Scrum Team that is progressing through Tuckman's model of Group Dynamics.

In which of the following stages will you be most actively involved?

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

48. Which of the following statements on Risk Management in a Scrum project is INCORRECT?

The iterative nature of Scrum with its rapid turnaround time and feedback cycles allows for early detection of failures.

Risks can be managed only at the project level, even if they are related to or originate in portfolios or programs.

Risk Burndown Charts aye an important tool for communicating information related to risks to the Stakeholders.

Risk is largely minimized in Scrum due to the flexibility in adding or modifying requirements at any time in the project lifecycle.

49. Beth is a Scrum Master over a newly formed team.

What can Beth expect as the team matures in the project?

The team will, over time, improve upon their definition of done.

The team will create a feasible plan for all product backlog requirements in the Product Backlog.

The team will become projectized.

Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing will occur.

50. Which one of the following INCORRECTLY matches a type of Scrum Team and a corresponding communication facilitator?

Colocated Team: War Rooms

Colocated Team: Wall displays

Distributed Team: Video Conferencing

Distributed Team: Manual Scrumboard

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51. A Scrum team is in a sprint retrospective at the end of a sprint. The Scrum Master facilitates this meeting and has made a simple board with headings of Keep Start and Stop Team members can post their thoughts for removing impediments.

Most ideas can be grouped together and involve the team's own process. There are some more general suggestions to lift impediments which do not fit into the general groupings. These ideas have to do with the organization's enterprise architecture and data compliance policy

What should the Scrum Master do with these ideas?

Add them to the organizations continuous improvement backlog

Ask the team members themselves what they want to do with them

Decide to add them to the team's continuous improvement backlog

Ignore them because they are not relevant to this sprint or the next

52. A Scrum team is halfway through a sprint when an important customer requests a new feature So far the customer is really happy with the work of the team. The customer would really like the team lo include the feature in this sprint

What should the Scrum Master do?

Ask the Product Owner to put the feature on the product backlog with an appropriate priority to protect the team from interruptions of the sprint

Discuss the product goal with the customer and assure them the team will meet the product goals to keep the customer engaged and happy

Ensure the customer understands the value of the current work ask them to reorder the features, and notify them of the new timeline

Reorganize the team's current work and inform the Product Owner of an extension of the sprint to include the new feature in the current sprint

53. The Scrum Master coordinates with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to ensure benefits from the project are realized.

Which of the following is true about Benefits Realization?

Benefits from Scrum projects are realized during Demonstrate and Validate Sprint, Conduct Release Planning, Create Deliverables and Retrospect Sprint processes.

Benefits from Scrum projects are realized during Demonstrate and Validate Sprint, Retrospect Sprint, Ship Deliverables and Retrospect Project processes.

Benefits from Scrum projects are realized during Demonstrate and Validate Project, Retrospect Sprint, Grooming Product Backlog and Retrospect Project processes.

Benefits from Scrum projects are realized during Demonstrate and Validate Project, Conduct Release Planning, Verify Deliverables and Retrospect Sprint processes.

54. A new Sprint has just started in your project. Some of the Development Team members need help determining when team members will actually take ownership of a Sprint Backlog item.

What should you tell the Development Team?

Sprint Backlog items are owned by the entire Development Team, not individuals.

Ownership happens once the Scrum Master assigns a task to a Development Team member.

The team should slice the Sprint Backlog into assignments as soon as the Sprint begins.

The Development Team should elect a team leader that will assign tasks to the other Development Team members.

55. Select all that apply. Before starting the first Sprint, what needs to be in place?

Just enough Product Backlog Items with business ideas for the first Sprint

Completed System architecture

Availability of the Project Manager

A complete Product Backlog capturing detailed product needs

Staffed Scrum Team

56. You are the Scrum Master for your organization and Sally is the Product Owner. The Development Team approaches you with many questions regarding a user story.

What should you do next in this scenario?

The Development Team should work with you as this is roadblock.

The Development Team should meet with Sally to determine clarity on the user story, to determine what is possible, and what is acceptable.

The Development Team and Sally should determine which Development Team member(s) should speak with the customer owning the requirement.

The Development Team should determine which Development Team member(s) should speak with the customer owning the requirement.

57. Which of the following is NOT a Scrum Master's responsibility?

Groom the Prioritized Product Backlog.

Coordinate creation of Release Planning Schedule.

Facilitate Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meetings.

Represent the Scrum Core Team to provide lessons from the project.

58. Scrum can easily be scaled for effective use in large projects with multiple small teams working on the project.

Which of the following facilitates coordination among scrum teams?

Scrum of Scrums Meeting

Daily Standup Meeting

Sprint Review Meeting

Sprint Planning Meeting

59. Sprint planning should result in a commitment on what will be delivered at the end of the Sprint.

Who makes this commitment?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

The team

60. Is Scrum immutable

Yes

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61. The table given below presents some Scrum roles that play an important part in business justification and their responsibilities. Choose the option that correctly matches each role in the left hand column to its action in the right hand column.

I-b, II-c, III-a, IV-d

I-a, II-c, III-b, IV-d

I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a

I-d, II-b, III-c, IV-a

62. A Product Owner is refining the product backlog She has provided more details to stones that nave a higher priority after speaking with several customers She has also grouped several user stories with a lower priority into epics

Is this the right way to refine the product backlog?

Yes because customer requirements that are very clear lead to detailed stories

Yes because stories with high priority should be pulled into a sprint backlog soon

No. because any story in the product backlog can be either detailed or coarse-grained

No. because grouping the user stories into epics leads to losing important details

63. You are the Scrum Master of the JKM Project and your Development Team has asked to change some rules about the duration of the Sprints.

Which one of the following statements is a rule of Scrum that the team should follow when it comes to Sprint duration?

Multiple Scrum teams can have sprints of different duration in one project.

When possible, Sprints should start on a Tuesday rather than a Monday.

The Sprint duration should not change once the project begins.

Multiple Scrum teams, in one project, can start their Sprints as soon as the Development Team is assembled.

64. You are working in a $50 million project to remove weeds from National monument areas. You are responsible for achieving maximum business value for the project, and represent the Voice of the Customer.

What role do you play in this project?

Scrum Master.

Product Owner.

Sponsor.

Scrum Guidance Board.

65. You are a Scrum Master on a project creating an optical fiber cable network across the country. The project has reached the Create User Stories process.

Which of the following is NOT an input to this process?

The Prioritized Product Backlog.

Identified Risks.

Personas.

Done Criteri

66. Which of the following is a responsibility of the Scrum Master in the context of change in Scrum?

Eliminating all changes that may affect the quality of deliverables and processes

Facilitating identification of Change Requests by the Scrum Team and their assessment and prioritization by the Product Owner.

Providing requests for changes in a project.

Approving changes that are amended, removed, or added according to project requirements, and communicating the same to the Scrum Team.

67. Voltex is a traditional electrical hardware distributor that has been using a command-and-control way of managing As a result, the level of trust between employees and managers is low Senior management wants to become more Agile to survive in their competitive market.

The Voltex electrical team is new to Scrum and adopting Agile is a significant cultural change Therefore management has asked Jennifer, an experienced Scrum Master to lead the new team

The Developers and the Product Owner struggle to follow the advice given during their Scrum training. They wish to adapt the Scrum practices to fit with their previous work and do not understand the changes. For example the Product Owner and Developers question why the Developers should choose what to work on instead of the managers assigning tasks.

What should the Scrum Master do?

Ask for Scrum training for the team members and suggest that the Product Owner just divides all the tasks

Explain how self-management brings commitment and how this benefits the team members and the flow

ignore the team's objections and just rigidly implement the Scrum practices and artifacts to let the team adjust

Let the Scrum team adapt the Scrum practices to their own needs, because that is what being Agile means

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