The Scrum Guide
Definition of Scrum?
A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.
What does the Product Backlog Management include?
Clearly expressing Product Backlog items, ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions, optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs, ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, that it is clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next, and ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
What service does Scrum Master provide to the Development Team?
Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality, Helping the Development Team to create high-value products, Removing impediments to the Development Team's progress, Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed, & Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
What services does the Scrum Master provide to the Product Owner?
Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible, Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management, Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items,Understanding product planning in an empirical environment, Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value, Understanding and practicing agility, & Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
What is Adaptation in SCRUM?
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. An adjustment must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation
What service does the Scrum Master provide to the Organization?
Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption, Planning Scrum implementations within the organization, Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development, Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team, & Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
What is scum is used for?
Research and identify viable markets, technologies, and product capabilities, develop products and enhancements, release products and enhancements, as frequently as many times per day, develop and sustain Cloud (online, secure, on-demand) and other operational environments for product use, and sustain and renew products.
What is Scrum Theory?
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.
What is Inspection in SCRUM?
Scrum users must frequently inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal to detect undesirable variances. Their inspection should not be so frequent that inspection gets in the way of the work. Inspections are most beneficial when diligently performed by skilled inspectors at the point of work.
What is transparency in SCRUM?
Significant aspects of the process must be visible to those responsible for the outcome. Transparency requires those aspects be defined by a common standard so observers share a common understanding of what is being seen.
What are the four formal events of SCRUM for adaptation and inspection?
Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
What is the Development Team in SCRUM?
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
Who is the Product Owner in SCRUM?
The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.
What role does the Product Owner take?
The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog.
Who is the Scrum Master in the SCRUM team model?
The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team 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.
The purpose of the Scrum Master?
The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. Scrum Masters do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
What does a SCRUM team consist of?
The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master.
What is the SCRUM team model designed to do?
The team model is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity. The Scrum Team has proven itself to be increasingly effective for all the earlier stated uses, and any complex work. Scrum Teams deliver products iteratively and incrementally, maximizing opportunities for feedback. Incremental deliveries of "Done" product ensure a potentially useful version of working product is always available.
What does the Development Team do?
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, Development Teams are cross-functional, with all the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment, scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members, regardless of the work being performed by the person, 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 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 SCRUM values?
When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone
What three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control?
transparency, inspection, and adaptation.