You are the Scrum Master for your organization and you are working to create a Development Team. Which one of the following is the best solution to…

The best solution aligns with the core Scrum principle of Self-organization. Scrum teams are empowered to manage their own work and processes to achieve the project's objectives. As a Scrum Master, your role is to be a facilitator and servant-leader who fosters an environment where the Development Team can form and organize itself. Allowing developers to self-organize promotes greater buy-in, motivation, and collective ownership of the work. This approach leverages the team's collective intelligence to create the most effective structure for delivering value, which is a fundamental tenet of the Scrum framework.

A. Recruit people from departments within the organization that can best support the project.

This describes a traditional, top-down management approach, which is contrary to the Scrum principle of empowering a self-organizing team.

B. Hire a Scrum Coach to help the developers become self-managing.

This is an action taken to improve an existing team's maturity and practices, not the primary method for the initial creation of the team.

D. Have the Development Team work directly with the customers of the project.

This is a valuable practice for a team that has already been formed (i.e., stakeholder collaboration), not a method for its initial formation.

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1. A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK® Guide)

3rd Edition. VMEdu

Inc. (2017).

Section 2.5

Self-organization

p. 22: "The Scrum framework promotes a self-organized working style where the team has a high degree of autonomy and flexibility in accomplishing the project objectives... The team itself decides how to best accomplish the work

rather than being directed by others outside the team." This reference directly supports the principle behind allowing the team to self-organize.

2. A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK® Guide)

3rd Edition. VMEdu

Inc. (2017).

Section 6.2

Scrum Master

p. 96: "The Scrum Master is a facilitator who ensures that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive to completing the project successfully. The Scrum Master guides

facilitates

and teaches Scrum practices to everyone involved in the project..." This defines the Scrum Master's role as a facilitator who would enable the team's self-organization rather than directing its formation.