PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) — Question 127

An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity.
What should the team do?

Answer options

• A. Re-estimate the sprint's completed stories to increase and adjust the sprint's velocity
• B. Increase the duration of the next sprint to accommodate the incomplete user stories and maintain velocity
• C. Work with the product owner to create a spike with another agile team
• D. Re-estimate the incomplete stories for the next sprint because its relative size has changed

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because re-estimating incomplete stories is essential to accurately reflect their size in the next sprint planning. Options A and B do not address the underlying issue of story completion, while C does not directly assist in managing the existing backlog and velocity.