Agile/ 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.

The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is?

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

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 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

The three pillars of empirical process control are:

Inspection, Transparency, Adaption

When does a Development Team member become the sole owner of a Sprint Backlog item?

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

Name the Scrum Artifacts

Product Backlog Sprint Backlog

Inspection

Scrum must frequently inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal to detect undesirable variances.

Transparency

Significant aspects of the process that are visible to those responsible for the outcome

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 required to attend the daily scrum?

The Development Team

Who has the authority to cancel a sprint?

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

Who is on the Scrum Team?

The Scrum Master, The Product Owner, The Development Team

Sprint Planning

Time boxed to a maximum of 8 hours for a one month sprint, for shorter sprints it is usually shorter

What does sprint planning answer?

What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming sprint? How will the work needed to deliver the increment be achieved?

When might a sprint be abnormally cancelled?

When the sprint goal becomes obsolete

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 and removing impediments that hinder the development team

Definition of "Done"

everyone must understand what done means and is used to assess when work is complete on the product increment

How do Scrum teams deliver products?

iteratively and incrementally

Product Owner Responsibilities

maximizing value of the product resulting from work of the development team, manage the product backlog

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

the event can have no more than a maximum amount of time

Sprint Backlog

the set of product backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the Sprint Goal.