Project Management Professional (PMP) — Question 64

A project manager is struggling to figure out the performance of the project teams in an agile environment. For the same scope of work, team A has calculated 100 story points and team B has calculated 125 story points.
Which team is performing better?

Answer options

• A. Team A as they have calculated fewer story points than team B
• B. Team B as they have calculated more story points than team A
• C. The team that completes the most stones selected from the sprint backlog
• D. The team with the least amount of defects in their deliverables

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because in an agile environment, the most important metric for performance is the number of completed items from the sprint backlog, rather than the number of story points estimated. Teams may estimate differently, so comparing story points alone (as in options A and B) does not accurately reflect performance. Option D focuses on defects, which, while important, is not the primary measure of agile team performance.