What is a key characteristic of a psychologically safe environment?

Team members only share positive feedback

Team members avoid disagreeing to keep the peace

Team members feel comfortable expressing dissenting opinions

Team members defer to the most senior person

Which behavior best supports a culture of challenging the status quo?

Relying on management to dictate all process changes

Accepting current processes without question

Encouraging team members to propose and test new ideas

Discouraging dissent to maintain harmony

Which facilitator behavior best supports an open exchange of ideas without adversarial confrontation?

Encouraging team members to argue their points forcefully

Taking sides with the majority opinion

Reframing statements as questions to explore understanding

Limiting discussion to avoid conflict

What is the primary purpose of a no-blame culture in an agile team?

To encourage objectivity by focusing on processes and systems rather than individuals

To assign blame to external stakeholders instead of team members

To avoid accountability by not identifying who caused a problem

To ensure that failures are never discussed openly to protect team morale

A distributed team has members in different time zones. Some team members are very vocal in video meetings, while others rarely speak. You want to solicit feedback from the quieter members, but you also need to ensure that the feedback is actionable and leads to improvements. Which approach best balances these needs?

Send a survey to all team members and share the results with the team, without a follow-up discussion.

Ask the quieter members directly in the next video meeting to share their thoughts, to ensure they are heard.

Assign each quiet member a specific topic to present in the next retrospective, so they are prepared to speak.

Use an asynchronous collaboration tool (e.g., a shared document or board) for retrospective input, then synthesize the themes and discuss them in a follow-up meeting.

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Domain 1Objective 5

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