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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.

Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibility?

Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team does. Feedback The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team.

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. Feedback Management has no active role in the actual product development through Scrum. However, management external to the Scrum team is incredibly important in setting the vision and strategy to guide the overall direction of the organization

Who is on the Scrum Team?

The Scrum Master The Product Owner The Development Team

What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)?

3 to 9

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.

Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?

The Development Team. Feedback Only the people doing the work described on the Sprint Backlog need to inspect and adapt at the Daily Scrum. If the Scrum Master or Product Owner is also on the Development Team, they will need to be at the Daily Scrum. Otherwise, the Scrum Master simply has to make sure the Development Team knows how to conduct a Daily Scrum and does so

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 Feedback The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog, which includes that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next.

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.

The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not change during the Sprint. Feedback The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not change during the Sprint.

Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?

The consistency reduces complexity.

True or False: The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.

True Feedback 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.

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.

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. Feedback Scrum requires an Increment to be releasable. This is an Increment of product. Many teams working on a single product are expected to deliver such an Increment.

Development Team membership should change:

As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity. Feedback Teams typically go through some steps before achieving a state of increased performance. Changing membership typically reduces cohesion, affecting performance and productivity in the short term.

Which events are time-boxed according to the Scrum Guide?

Daily Scrum The Sprint Sprint Review Feedback The Scrum Guide states that all Scrum Events are time-boxed. The Sprint - 1 month or less, Sprint Planning - maximum 8 hours for a one-month sprint, Daily Scrum - 15-minutes, Sprint Review - maximum 4 hours for a one-month sprint, and the Sprint Retrospective - maximum 3 hours for a one-month sprint.

Which of the below are roles on a Scrum Team?

Development Team Product Owner Scrum Master

True or False: It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint

False Feedback The product increment should be usable and releasable at the end of every Sprint, but it does not have to be released.

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. Feedback The items selected for a Sprint have been selected as most valuable with the Product Owner. The items serve the Sprint's goal. No changes should be made that endanger the Sprint Goal. No one external to the Scrum Team can force changes on the Development Team (Sprint Backlog) and the Product Owner (Product Backlog).

The three pillars of empirical process control are:

Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation

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. Feedback Every event in Scrum, besides the Sprint which is a container for the other events, is an opportunity to Inspect AND Adapt.

Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?

The Product Owner

During a Sprint, a Development Team determines that it will not be able to finish the complete forecast. Who should be present to review and adjust the Sprint work selected?

The Product Owner and the Development Team. Feedback During the Sprint, scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned.

The Product Backlog is ordered by:

Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner. Feedback The Product Owner decides what makes the most sense to optimize the value of the work being done by the Development Team.

When might a Sprint be abnormally cancelled?

When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete. Feedback A Sprint can be cancelled before the Sprint time-box is over. A Sprint would be cancelled if the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete. This might occur if the company changes direction or if market or technology conditions change.

How much work must a Development Team do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?

As much as it has told the Product Owner will be done for every Product Backlog item it selects in conformance with the definition of "Done". Feedback The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver Increments of potentially releasable functionality that adhere to the Scrum Team's current definition of "Done".

Which three behaviors demonstrate that a team is NOT self-organizing and are NOT following the Scrum Guide?

1. Stakeholders attend the Daily Scrum to check progress and work with the Scrum Master to optimize the functional scope for the Sprint. 2. 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. 3.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. Feedback 1. The Daily Scrum is for the Development Team and attended by the Development Team. It should not be used by external stakeholders to check progress. 2. During Sprint Planning the Scrum Team should be crafting the Sprint Goal based on the set of Product Backlog items selected for the sprint. The Development Team identifies the necessary work to meet the Sprint Goal. 3. Scrum Development Team members don't have titles, and no sub-teams; such as, testing, architecture, or operations are recognized. Accountability belongs with the Development Team as a whole, regardless of whether team members have specialized skills.

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. Feedback Time-boxed events are events that have a maximum duration.

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. Feedback The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint. Development Teams are cross-functional, with all of the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment.

True or False: Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."

True