07 — Exam strategy + traps

How to think during PAL I questions

• Prefer servant-leadership behaviors that enable self-management.
• Choose options that improve empiricism: transparency, inspection, adaptation.
• Protect Scrum purpose (events are for inspection/adaptation, not status control).
• When forced to choose, prefer value delivery + learning over “busy output”.

Common traps

• Treating Scrum Master as project manager
• Treating Product Owner as requirements clerk
• Treating Sprint Review as a demo-only meeting
• “Fixing” problems by adding control/reporting rather than changing the system
• Using metrics to punish → people hide reality → empiricism collapses

How to study efficiently

• Read Scrum Guide once end-to-end, then drill questions.
• For each wrong answer, write a 1–2 sentence “why the right answer aligns with empiricism + values.”