Agile foundations review
The time-box for a Daily Scrum is?
15 Minutes
The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is?
8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
Select three incorrect, untrue, or misleading statements about Scrum?
A B C A) Scrum is a methodology where you can pick and choose which parts of Scrum you think will work for your environment. B) Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-organization to replace Project Managers. C) Scrum is a framework that eliminates complexity. D) Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. Incorrect answerE) Scrum is based on empirical process control theory. F) Each component of Scrum serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum's success and your usage of Scrum to develop complex products.
Which statement best describes Scrum?
A framework within which complex products in complex environments are developed.
Development Team membership should change:
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
By facilitating Development Team decisions By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team
Which events are time-boxed according to the Scrum Guide?
Daily Scrum The Sprint Sprint Review
When does the next Sprint begin?
Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
The three pillars of empirical process control are:
Inspection, Transparency, and Adaptation
Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibility?
Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team does.
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team
The Product Backlog is ordered by:
Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.
When is a Sprint over?
When the time box expires
True or False: The Scrum Team should choose at least one high priority process improvement, identified during the Sprint Retrospective, and place it in the Product Backlog.
FALSE
True or False: It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
False
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.
Which three behaviors demonstrate that a team is NOT self-organizing and are NOT following the Scrum Guide?
Stakeholders attend the Daily Scrum to check progress and work with the Scrum Master to optimize the functional scope for the Sprint. The Development Team invites external people to the Sprint Planning to ask them how to turn a Product Backlog item into an Increment via a complete and detailed Sprint Backlog. The Development Team members are working within the boundaries of their functional description and nicely handing off work from analyst to developer to tester to integration.
Which of the following services are appropriate for a Scrum Master in regard to the Daily Scrum?
Teach the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minute time-box.
Who creates the definition of "Done"?
The development organization (or Development Team if none is available from the development organization)
