SCRUM

The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is:

4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the definition of "done?"

All Development Teams must have a definition of "done" that makes their combined work potentially releasable.

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.

Roles on a Scrum Team

Development Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master

Upon what type of process control is Scrum based

Empirical

It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.

False

When does the next Sprint begin?

Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

The CEO asks the Development Team to add a "very important" item to a Sprint that is in progress. What should the Development Team do?

Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.

Three pillars of empirical process control are

Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation

Describe a Sprint Review?

It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a Sprint and figure out what to do next.

When do Development Team members become the exclusive owner of a Sprint Backlog item?

Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are "owned" by the entire Development Team, even though each one may be done by an individual development team member.

What is the role of Management in Scrum?

Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence, and intelligent release of software.

During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master's role is to:

Teach the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minute time-box.

Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?

The Development Team

Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?

The Product Owner

Who should know the most about the progress toward a business objective or a release, and be able to explain the alternatives most clearly?

The Product Owner

Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?

The consistency reduces complexity.

What does it mean to say that an event has a time-box?

The event can take no more than a maximum amount of time.

Scrum does not have a role called project manager.

True

The Product Backlog is ordered by:

Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.

When might a Sprint be abnormally terminated?

When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.

The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is

8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

Which two (2) things does the Development Team do during the first Sprint?

Deliver an increment of releasable software. Develop and deliver at least one piece of functionality.

The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.

True

The Development Team should have all the skills needed to:

Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially releasable product functionality.

When is a Sprint over?

When the time-box expires.

When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.

False