Scrum

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1. A common language referring to the process must be shared by all participants. 2. Those performing the work and those inspecting the resulting increment must share a common definition of "Done".

What are two transparency examples in the guide?

The Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone.

What does it happen when the Scrum Values are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team?

Only members of the Development Team

Who can create the Increment?

The Development Team may also invite other people to attend to provide technical or domain advice.

Can other people attend the Sprint Planning meeting?

The Daily Scrum is an internal meeting for the Development Team. If others are present, the Scrum Master ensures that they do not disrupt the meeting.

Can others participate in the Daily Scrum?

No one can force the Development Team to work from a different set of requirements.

Can somebody force the Development Team to work from a different set of requirements?

The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the desires of a committee in the Product Backlog, but those wanting to change a Product Backlog item's priority must address the Product Owner.

Can the product owner represent desires of a committee?

1. Research and identify viable markets, technologies, and product capabilities; 2. Develop products and enhancements; 3. Release products and enhancements, as frequently as many times per day; 4. Develop and sustain Cloud (online, secure, on-demand) and other operational environments for product use; 5. Sustain and renew products.

For which purposes Scrum has been extensively used worldwide?

If the work turns out to be different than the Development Team expected, they collaborate with the Product Owner to negotiate the scope of the Sprint Backlog within the Sprint.

How does the Development Team resolve problems with the work scope while working in toward the Sprint Goal?

As the Development Team works, it keeps the Sprint Goal in mind. In order to satisfy the Sprint Goal, it implements functionality and technology.

How does the Development Team satisfy the Sprint Goal?

The Development Team self-organizes to undertake the work in the Sprint Backlog, both during Sprint Planning and as needed throughout the Sprint.

How does the Development Team splits the work?

The Development Team uses the Daily Scrum to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and to inspect how progress is trending toward completing the work in the Sprint Backlog.

How does the Development Team uses the Daily Scrum?

The Product Owner can help to clarify the selected Product Backlog items and make trade-offs. If the Development Team determines it has too much or too little work, it may renegotiate the selected Product Backlog items with the Product Owner.

How does the Product Owner work with the Development Team in the Sprint Planning?

The Scrum Master teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minutes time-box.

How does the Scrum Master contributes to the Daily Scrum?

He helps those outside the Scrum Team to understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren't. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.

How does the Scrum Master help those outside the Scrum Team?

Scrum Master do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules and values.

How does the Scrum Master promote and support Scrum?

1. Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality; 2. Helping the Development Team to create high-value products; 3. Removing impediments to the Development Team's progress; 4. Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and 5. Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

How does the Scrum Master serve the Development Team?

1. Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption; 2. Planning Scrum implementations within the organization; 3. Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development; 4. Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team; and, 5. Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

How does the Scrum Master serve the Organization?

1. Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible; 2. Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management; 3. Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items; 4. Understanding product planning in an empirical environment; 5. Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value; 6. Understanding the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value; 7. Understanding and practicing agility; and, 8. Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.

How does the Scrum Master serve the Product Owner?

The rules of Scrum bind together roles, events and artifacts, governing the relationship and interaction between them.

How does the Scrum's rules work?

Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work. The resulting synergy optimizes the Development Team's overall efficiency and effectiveness.

How does the organization help the Development Team?

Inspection from Scrum users should not be so frequent that inspection gets in the way of the work.

How frequently the inspection in Scrum should be performed?

The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some flexibility regarding the functionality implemented within the Sprint. The selected Product Backlog items deliver one coherent function, which can be the Sprint Goal.

In terms of functionality, what does the Sprint Goal provide to the Development Team?

The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning

In which event the work for the Sprint is planned?

1. Commitment 2. Courage 3. Focus 4. Openness 5. Respect

What are the Scrum Values?

1. They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality; 2. Development Teams are cross-functional, with all the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment; 3. Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members, regardless of the work being performed by the person; 4. Scrum recognizes no sub-teams in the Development Team, regardless of domains that need to be addressed like testing, architecture, operations, or business analysis; and, 5. Individual Development Team members may have specialized skills and areas of focus, but accountability belongs to the Development Team as a whole.

What are the characteristics of the Development team?

1. Sprint planning 2. Daily Scrum 3. Sprint Review 4. Sprint Retrospective

What are the four formal events for inspection and adaptation?

Transparency, inspection and adaptation.

What are the three pillars that uphold the empirical process?

1. What did I do yesterday that helped the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal? 2. What will I do today to help the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal? 3. Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the Development Team from meeting the Sprint Goal?

What are the three questions asked in the Daily Scrum?

Sprints have a consistent duration throughout a development effort. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

What are the time-box characteristics for a Sprint?

1. Self-organized 2. Cross-functional

What are the two characteristics of a Scrum Team?

They refer to complex work.

What do "develop" and "development" refer in the Scrum guide?

Each event in Scrum is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt something. These events are specifically designed to enable critical transparency and inspection.

What do each Scrum event allow?

1) Clearly expressing Product Backlog items; Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions; 2) Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs; 3) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and, 4) Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

What does Product Backlog management include?

Consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules.

What does Scrum framework consist?

Asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.

What does empiricism assert?

1. No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal. 2. Quality goals do not decrease; and, 3. Scope maybe clarified and re-negotiated between the product owner and Development Team as more is learned.

What does it happen during a Sprint?

Time-boxed events mean that every event has a maximum duration.

What does it mean the events are time-boxed?

Cross-functional team have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team.

What does it mean to be a cross-functional team?

Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team.

What does it mean to be a self-organizing team?

The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of "Done" at the end of each Sprint.

What does the Development Team consist of?

Roles, events, artifacts and the rules that bind them together

What does the Scrum definition contains?

The Sprint contain and consists of the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, the development work, the Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective.

What does the Sprint consist of?

Sprint enables predictability by ensuring inspection and adaptation of progress toward a Sprint Goal at least every calendar month.

What does the Sprint enable with its time-box?

Is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism.

What is Scrum founded on?

Framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products.

What is Scrum?

The entire organization must respect his or her decisions. The Product Owner's decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog.

What is it required for the Product Owner to succeed?

Enough work is planned for the Development Team to forecast what it believes it can do in the upcoming Sprint.

What is planned during the Sprint Planning?

Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the development team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Team, and individuals.

What is the Product Owner responsible for related to the Development Team?

The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum guide.

What is the Scrum Master responsibility?

The Product Backlog items selected for this Sprint plus the plan for delivering them is called the Sprint Backlog.

What is the Sprint Backlog?

The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the Sprint through the implementation of the Product Backlog, and it provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the increment.

What is the Sprint Goal?

Ensures a potentially useful version of working product is always available

What is the benefit of incremental deliveries of "done" product?

The remaining events may end whenever the purpose of the event is achieved, ensuring an appropriate amount of time is spent without allowing waste in the process.

What is the characteristic of duration for the Scrum events?

once a Sprint begins, its duration is fixed and cannot be shortened or lengthened.

What is the characteristic of the Sprint duration?

Failure to include any of these events results in reduced transparency and is a lost opportunity to inspect and adapt.

What is the consequence of not including any of the Scrum events?

The Sprint itself is a container for all other Scrum events.

What is the container for the Scrum events?

If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits, and that the resulting product will be unacceptable, the process or the material being processed must be adjusted.

What is the definition of Adaptation in Scrum?

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

What is the definition of Inspection in Scrum?

Significant aspects of the process must be visible to those responsible for the outcomes. Transparency requires those aspects be defined by a common standard so observers share a common understanding of what is being seen.

What is the definition of Transparency in Scrum?

The Daily Scrum optimizes the probability that the Development Team will meet the Sprint Goal.

What is the effect of the Daily Scrum over the Sprint Goal?

The essence is a small team of people. The individual team is highly flexible and adaptive. These strengths continue operating in single, several, many, and networks of teams that develop, release, operate and sustain the work and work products of thousands of people. They collaborate and interoperate through sophisticated development architectures and target release environments.

What is the essence of Scrum?

The Development Team should be able to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how it intends to work as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment.

What is the expectation on the Development Team at the end of the Sprint Planning session?

The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which a "Done", usable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created.

What is the heart of Scrum?

The input to this meeting is the Product Backlog, the latest product increment, projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint, and past performance of the Development Team.

What is the input for the Sprint Planning?

To optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity

What is the main design consideration for the team model?

To be a servant-leader.

What is the main role of the Scrum Master for the Scrum Team?

The optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team members decrease interaction and results in smaller productivity gains. Large Development Team generate too much complexity for and empirical process to be useful.

What is the optimal Development Team size?

A "Done" increment is required at the end of each Sprint Review.

What is the outcome expected at the end of each Sprint Review?

Work planned for the first days of the Sprint by the Development Team is decomposed by the end of this meeting, often to units of one day or less.

What is the outcome of the Sprint Planning meeting?

Any completed and "Done" Product Backlog items are reviewed. If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it. All incomplete Product Backlog items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog.

What is the process when a Sprint is canceled?

Each Sprint has a goal of what is to be built, a design and flexible plan that will guide building it, the work, and the resultant product increment.

What is the purpose of the Sprint Goal?

A Sprint would be canceled if the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete. A Sprint should be canceled if it no longer makes sense given the circumstances.

What is the reason to cancel a Sprint?

The Development Team works to forecast the functionality that will be developed during the Sprint.

What is the responsibility of the Development Team in the Sprint Planning?

The Product Owner discusses the objective that the Sprint should achieve and the Product Backlog items that, if completed in the Sprint, would achieve the Sprint Goal.

What is the responsibility of the Product Owner in the Sprint Planning?

The Scrum Master ensures that the event takes place and that attendants understand its purpose. The Scrum Master teaches the Scrum Team to keep it within the time-box.

What is the responsibility of the Scrum Master for the Sprint Planning?

Each Sprint may be considered a project with no more than a one-month horizon.

What is the time-box for a Sprint?

The Daily Scrum is a 15 minute time-boxed event for the Development Team.

What is the time-box for the Daily Scrum?

The Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.

What is the time-box for the Sprint Planning?

Prescribed events are used in Scrum to create regularity and to minimize the need for meetings not defined in Scrum.

What is the use of the prescribed events?

The Development Team or team members often meet immediately after the Daily Scrum for detailed discussions, or to adapt, or replan, the rest of the Sprint's work.

What may happen at the end of the Daily Scrum?

1. What can be delivered in the increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint? 2. How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?

What questions does the Sprint Planning answers?

Each component serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum's success and usage

What's the purpose of each component of Scrum's framework?

When diligently performed by skilled inspectors at the point of work.

When are the inspections most beneficial?

As they work with the Scrum roles, events and artifacts.

When do the Scrum Team members explore those values?

An adjustment must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.

When does an adjustment need to be performed?

The Sprint Goal is created during the Sprint Planning meeting.

When is the Sprint Goal created?

In iterative and incremental knowledge transfer.

Where has been Scrum proved especially effective?

1. Product Owner 2. Development Team 3. Scrum Master

Who are the members of a Scrum Team?

During the Sprint Planning the Development Team also crafts a Sprint Goal.

Who can also craft the Sprint Goal?

The Development Team can perform Product Backlog management activities, however the Product Owner remains accountable.

Who can perform Product Backlog Management activities?

The plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.

Who creates the plan in the Sprint Planning?

The structure of the meeting is set by the Development Team and can be conducted in different ways if it focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal.

Who defines the structure of the Daily Scrum?

The Scrum Master ensures that the Development Team has the meeting, but the Development Team is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum.

Who is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum?

The number of items selected from the Product Backlog for the Sprint is solely up to the Development Team. Only the Development Team can assess what it can accomplish over the upcoming Sprint.

Who is responsible of the number of items selected from the Product Backlog for the Sprint Planning?

Only the Product Owner has the authority to cancel the Sprint, although he or she may do so under the influence from the stakeholders, the Development Team, or the Scrum Master.

Who is the only person with the authority to cancel a Sprint?

The product owner is the only person responsible for managing the Product Backlog

Who is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog?

To maximize opportunities for feedback.

Why Scrum Team delivers products iteratively and incrementally?

To optimize predictability and control risk.

Why Scrum employs an iterative and incremental approach?

Sprint cancellation consumes resources since everyone regroups in another Sprint Planning to start another Sprint.

Why does the Sprint cancelation consumes resources?


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