Scrum Test 1 Questions

Length of a sprint

1 month or less, short enough to synchronize development work w/ business events, Short enough to keep business risk acceptable to Product Owner,

What's the typical size of a scrum team?

10 or less (Rule: small enough to be nimble, large enough to complete significant work completed. Smaller team better comm.

Daily scrum

15 min event for Developers. Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team by ensuring all scrum events take place and are positive, productive, w/in timebox

The time box for daily scrum is?

15 mins

The timebox for the sprint review is :

4 hours or less for a monthly sprint, shorter for shorter sprints.

Scrum

A lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

When should developers on a Scrum Team be replaced?

As need, while taking account a short reduction in productivity

Developers

group of professionals who do the work of delivering an incremental/ functional progress or done product at the end of each spirit.

T or F: The Scrum Team must chose at least 1 high priority process improvement item, Identified during sprint retrospective, & placed in the Spirit Backlog

False

2 things the Scrum Team does during first/ all sprints?

Deliver an increment of useful & valuable product, Deliver at least 1 piece of functionality

Who is on scrum team?

Developers, 1 Scrum Master, 1 Product Owner

Upon what process is scrum based

Empirical (knowledge comes from experience & making decisions based on what is observed)

Who is accountable for creating valuable, useful increment every sprint.

Entire Scrum Team

T or F: It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each sprint?

False, product should be usable/ releasable at the end of every sprint, but does not have to be released.

True or false when multiple Scrum Team's work together on the same product each team maintains its own Product Back log

False, the maintain the same Product Backlog

What statement best describes Scrum?

Framework for creating complex products in complex environments.

Can a sprint end early, before being complete?

If sprint goal becomes obsolete. Only Product Owner can end.

CEO asks the developers to add "very important" item to in sprint in progress. What should the developers do?

Inform the members of the scrum team so they can decide what to do

3 pillars of empiricism

Inspection, transparency, adaptation

Why can't a single developer be sole owner of the product back log?

It will block communication & collaboration. The sprint backlog is updated throughout the sprint as more is learned.

Product Owner

Items selected for sprint are selected by PO. Items serve the sprint goal. No changes can be made that endanger sprint goal. No one outside scrum team can force changes on developers

When many teams are working on a project what is the definition of done?

Must be valuable and useful. all teams are expected to adhere to the same single definition of done

When does a developer become sole owner of an item on the Sprint Backlog

Never, All sprint back logs are owned by the developers on the scrum team

Product Owners Responsibility?

Optimize value of the product & work of scrum team

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

Product Owner

Who has the final say on the order of the product backlog?

Product Owner is the sole person

Role of outside management

Setting the vision & strategy to guide overall direction of the organization

The sprint is a container for the following timeboxed events:

Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, & Sprint Retrospective. Fixed length 1 month or less, new sprints start immediately after previous sprint is completed

What's he function/ purpose of Management?

Support Product Owner w/ insights & information into high value product & system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to encourage organizational change to foster empiricism, self-management , bottom up intelligence, and intelligent product delivery.

What is main reason Scrum Master to be at Daily Scrum?

They do not, only need to insure developers have a daily scrum

T or F: The purpose of a sprint is to produce a valuable & useful increment of working product?

True

The Developer should have all the skills needed to

Turn the product backlog items they select into an increment of useful and valuable product functionality

How is the product backlog is ordered

Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the product owner

When does a sprint conclude?

When the sprint retrospective is complete

whos is responsible for managing progress of work during sprint?

developers

Empiricism

knowledge comes from experience & making decisions are based on what's known

Product Owner

sole person responsible for ordering product backlog. Responsibilities include: Making Product Back Log visible & transparent to all

Sprint Review

time-boxed of 4 hours, or less, When Scrum Team & Scrum Master inspect the outcome of sprint and what to do next

How does the developer use daily scrum

to Inspect progress toward sprint goal, see how progress is trending toward completion in backlog