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Agile methodologies: DSDM
(1) Adjusts the projects deliverables on Musts, Shoulds, Coulds and Won't Haves. (2) MoSCoW.
Agile methodologies: Crystal Methods
(1) Executive sponsor, lean designer, developer, experienced users. (2) charting, delivering cycle, wrap-up.
Agile methodologies: Extreme Programming
(1) Keeps the cost of changing software from raising radically with time. (2) Incremental developments. (3) Flexibility scheduling. (4) Customer, Developer, Tracker and Coach.
Scrum Principles
(1) Must be followed. (2) Non-negotiable.
Who participates in the Sprint Review? Select all applicable variants.
* The Key Stakeholders * The Development Team * The Product Owner * The Scrum Master
What happens during the Sprint? Select three answers.
*No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal *Quality goals do not decrease *Scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned
Scrum Principles
1. Empirical process control. 2. Self-organization. 3. Collaboration. 4. Value based prioritization. 5. Time-boxing. 6. Iterative development.
Scrum Aspects
1. Organization. 2. Business justification. 3. Quality. 4. Change. 5. Risk.
What is the result of the Sprint Review?
A revised Product Backlog that defines the probable Product Backlog items for the next Sprint
What are the three pillars that uphold Scrum?
Adaptation Inspection Transparency
Product Owner
Articulates customer requirements
What comprises Scrum (select four)?
Artifacts Rules Roles Events
Scrum aspects and processes
Can be modified to meet the needs of the project and organization.
Scrum project
Collaborative effort to create a new product or service as defined by the project vision statement.
Scrum is founded on
Empiricism
The Scrum Master does the following regarding the Daily Scrum (select all applicable variants):
Ensures that the Development Team has the meeting Enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum Teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box
Scrum Master
Ensures the scrum team has an appropriate environment
How does the Scum Master help to the Product Owner? Select the three most appropriate answers.
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management Understanding product planning in an empirical environment
All the Scrum Teams working on the same product should have the same Sprint length.
False
Definition of "Done" is created during the first Sprint and remains unchanged until the Product release.
False
It is a good practice to have at least two Product Owners on big projects.
False
It is normal to have a "hardening" Sprint to remove all technical debt and prepare the Product for upcoming release.
False
Only the Product Owner and the Development Team participate in the Sprint Planning. There is nothing to do for the Scrum Master.
False
Scrum does not allow additional meetings that are not defined in Scrum.
False
Scrum recommends using only those Scrum components and rules which suit most for a particular project.
False
The Daily Scrum time-box depends on the size of the Development team.
False
The Scrum Master is focused primarily on the Scrum Team and usually does not care about those outside the Scrum Team.
False
The Sprint Backlog is created at the Sprint Planning. It is prohibited to add new work into the Sprint Backlog later by the Development Team.
False
Scrum Master
Guides, facilitates and teaches scrum practices
How does the Scrum Master serve the Development Team? Select the three most appropriate answers.
Helping the Development Team to create high-value products Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality Removing impediments to the Development Team's progress
What does Cone of Uncertainty show?
How much is known about the Product over time
What does Burn-down Chart show?
How much work remains till the end of the Sprint
Core roles
Involved in producing the project's product or service.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
It is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint
What are Product Backlog features? Select three.
It is never complete As long as a product exists, its Product Backlog also exists It is dynamic
What is the order of items in the Product Backlog?
Less valuable and most unclear items at the bottom
Product Owner
Maintains business justification
Is it allowed to skip the Daily Scrum if there is nothing interesting to tell about?
No
What part of the capacity of the Development Team does Product Backlog refinement usually consume?
Not more than 10%
How much time does the Sprint Planning take?
Not more than 8 hours
Core roles
Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team.
What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner?
Product Value Maximizer Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder Involvement Product Marketplace Expert
What are the three main qualities the team model in Scrum is designed to optimize?
Productivity
Product Owner
Responsible for achieving maximum business value.
What are the characteristics of a Development Team? Select three most appropriate choices.
Scrum recognizes no sub-teams in the Development Team Accountability belongs to the Development Team as a whole Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members other than Developer
Sort Scrum events in the right order.
Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective
Please, select a time-box for each Scrum event.
Sprint Planning - 8 hours or less Daily Scrum - 15 minutes Sprint Review - 4 hours or less Sprint Retrospective - 3 hours or less
Please, check all opportunities to inspect and adapt.
The Daily Scrum The Sprint Retrospective The Sprint Planning The Sprint Review
Who creates the increment?
The Development Team
Who is allowed to change the Sprint Backlog during the Sprint?
The Development Team
Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team
Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?
The Development Team
Who is responsible for tracking the total work remaining in the Sprint Backlog to project the likelihood of achieving the Sprint Goal?
The Development Team
The Scrum Team consists of
The Development Team The Scrum Master The Product Owner
What could be a source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product?
The Product Backlog
Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?
The Product Owner
Who is responsible for managing the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
Who is responsible for the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
Who is responsible for the monitoring of the remaining work towards the Project Goal?
The Product Owner
Who is responsible for coping with incomplete artifact transparency?
The Scrum Master
Who is responsible for crafting the Sprint Goal at the Sprint Planning?
The Scrum Team
What belongs solely to the Development Team?
The Sprint Backlog
In which meetings the Key Stakeholders are allowed to participate?
The Sprint Review
All Development Teams working on the same Product should use the same Product Backlog.
True
Scrum does not describe agile processes and techniques.
True
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.
True
Product Owner
Voice of the customer
What are the questions the Sprint Planning answers? Select two.
What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint? How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?
What are the three main questions each member of the Development Team should answer at the Daily Scrum?
What will I do today to help the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal? What did I do yesterday that helped the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal? Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the Development Team from meeting the Sprint Goal?
Could the Product Owner and the Scrum Master be a part of the Development Team?
Yes
Agile Principles
(1) Customer satisfaction. (2) Welcome change. (3) Deliver working software frequently. (4) Business and developer must work together trough the project. (5) Build project around motivated individuals. (6) Favor face-to-face communication. (7) Working software is the primary measure of success. (8) Promotes sustainable development. (9) Continuous attention to technical excellence. (10) Simplicity (the art of maximizing the work not done) is essential (11) The best architectures, requirements and design emerge from self-organizing teams. (12) At regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
Agile methodologies: Lean Kanban
(1) Optimizes an organization system to produce optimal results and reduce waste. (2) Spouses the use of visual aids.
What is Scrum?
A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while delivering valuable products.
If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits when an adjustment must be made?
As soon as possible to minimize further deviation
What should be taken into account for the Definition of "Done"? Select the two most appropriate items.
Definition of "Done" of other Scrum Teams working on the same Product Conventions, standards and guidelines of the Organization
If an item in the Sprint Backlog cannot be finished by the end of the Sprint (it turned out there is a lot more work to do than was estimated), the Sprint is cancelled.
False
It is a good practice to have from time to time a special technical Sprint that consists only of tasks removing the technical debt without implementing any new functionality.
False
How frequently should scrum users inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal?
Frequently, but it should not get in the way of the work
The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to (select three):
Identify and order the major items that went well and potential improvements Inspect how the last Sprint went with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools Create a plan for implementing improvements to the way the Scrum Team does its work
What does Product Backlog management include? Select three most applicable items.
Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs
How does the Scrum Master serve the Organization? Select the three most appropriate answers.
Planning Scrum implementations within the organization Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
What are the Scrum Artifacts? Select all applicable items.
Product Backlog Increment Sprint Backlog
Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of "Done"?
The Development Team
What is the input to the Sprint Planning? Select four.
The Product Backlog Projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint The latest product Increment Past performance of the Development Team
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The Product Backlog items selected for this Sprint plus the plan for delivering them
Who participates in the Sprint Planning? Select three.
The Product Owner The Development Team The Scrum Master
Who is allowed to make changes in the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner The Development Team, but with permission of the Product Owner
What provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment?
The Sprint Goal
What are the formal Scrum events for inspection and adaptation?
The Sprint Planning The Daily Scrum The Sprint Retrospective The Sprint Review
Agility
The balance between agility and flexibility.
Other people than the Scrum Team can attend the Sprint Planning in order to provide technical or domain advice.
True
The need for Agile
(1) Rapidly changing market & technology. (2) Shrinking time to market (3) Customer value is delivered at the point of sale, not at the point of plan.
Imagine you are a Scrum Master. There are 10 professionals (developers and QAs) and the Product Owner. How to distribute people between development teams? Choose all applicable variants:
* 3 teams of 4, 3 and 3 people (each team is cross-functional) * 2 teams of 6 and 4 people (the professionals after a short meeting decided this is the best variant)
How does Definition of "Done" help to the Scrum Team? Select the three most applicable items.
* DoD is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment * DoD ensures artifact transparency * DoD guides the Development Team in knowing how many Product Backlog items it can select during a Sprint Planning
What are the two essential features a Scrum Team should possess?
* It should have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team * It should choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team
What happens when a Sprint is cancelled? Select three.
If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it Any completed and "Done" Product Backlog items are reviewed All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog
Select the two meetings in which people outside the Scrum Team are allowed to participate.
The Sprint Review The Sprint Planning
What is the Increment?
The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints
During each Sprint Retrospective the Scrum Team reviews the Definition of Done and changes it if necessary.
True
Could the Sprint Planning be finished if only work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed to units of one day or less?
Yes, if the remaining work is also estimated, maybe in bigger units
