What would be the best approach for understanding the current status of the products?

Nick is the director of product success in a company. Nick needs to know how each product is doing periodically.

What would be the best approach for understanding the current status of the products?
A . The Product Owners should send him a status report periodically.
B. Nick should work with every team and share his goals and concerns. He can go through the Product Backlogs and Sprint Backlogs.
C. The Scrum Masters can send him a weekly product report.
D. Nick must join the Sprint Retrospectives.
E. Nick must join all the Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

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Answer: B

Explanation:

Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value each Sprint. They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how. A Director or manager may join the Sprint Review as a stakeholder but the Sprint Retrospective should be only for the Scrum Team. Scrum’s artifacts represent work or value. They are designed to maximize transparency of key information. Thus, everyone inspecting them has the same basis for adaptation. Scrum uses three artifacts to help manage work.

What work was done so far is represented in the Product increment. The work that is currently in progress is on Sprint Backlog. The remaining work is in the Product Backlog.