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The time-box for a Daily Scrum is?
15 minutes.
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.
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
Upon what type of process control is Scrum based?
Empirical
Scrum is a framework that eliminates complexity.
False
Scrum is a methodology where you can pick and choose which parts of Scrum you think will work for your environment.
False
Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-organization to replace Project Managers.
False
When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
False
Which statement best describes the Sprint Review?
It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a Sprint and figure out what to do next.
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 has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
Who is on the Scrum Team?
The Scrum Master, The Product Owner, The Development Team
Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."
True
Which events are time-boxed according to the Scrum Guide? Choose the three BEST answers: a) Sprint Testing b) Release Testing c) Daily Scrum d) Design Sprint e) Release Retrospective f) The Sprint g) Sprint Review
Daily Scrum, The Sprint, Sprint Review
Which two things does the Development Team do during the first Sprint?
Deliver an increment of potentially releasable software. Develop and deliver at least one piece of functionality.
When does the next Sprint begin?
Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
The three pillars of empirical process control are:
Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.
True
Product Backlog Items must
represent a requirement for a change to the product under development, and have all of the following attributes: description, order, value, estimate.
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.
When might a Sprint be abnormally cancelled?
When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team.
True or False: It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
False
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.
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
The Development Team
When is a Sprint over?
When the time-box expires.
An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change the terminology to fit with terminology already used. What will likely happen if this is done?
Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of the change, very little change may actually happen. The organization may not understand what has changed with Scrum and the benefits of Scrum may be lost. Management may feel less anxious.
Who creates the definition of "Done"?
The development organization (or Development Team if none is available from the development organization)
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.
Each component of Scrum serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum's success and your usage of Scrum to develop complex products.
True
Scrum is based on empirical process control theory.
True
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. It should go in the Sprint backlog.
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
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.
The length of a Sprint should be:
Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner. Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events. No more than one month.
What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)?
3 to 9
The Development Team should not be interrupted during the Sprint. The Sprint Goal should remain intact. These are conditions that foster creativity, quality and productivity. Which of the following is false? The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the Development Team. The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not change during the Sprint. As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog changes and may grow as the work emerges. The Development Team may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if it finds it has more or less capacity than it expected.
The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not change during the Sprint.
The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is:
4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
The consistency reduces complexity.
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.
True or False: 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.
The Product Backlog is ordered by:
Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.
The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is?
8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
How often should the development team change?
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.