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What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)? .
3 to 9
A Scrum Master is essentially the same thing as a traditional PM (Project Manager).
True
In accordance with Scrum theory, how should a group of 100 people be divided into multiple Development Teams? (Not yet) a
. Create a matrix of Skills, seniority, and level of experience to assign people to teams.
One of the Scrum events is the Daily Scrum. What are two outcomes of the Daily Scrum?
1. An update of the impediments for the Scrum Master to take care of. 2. A shared understanding of the most important work to be undertaken next to achieve the best possible progress toward the Sprint goal
Currently, your Development Teams are organized to address a single layer only (for example, front end, middle tier, back end, and interfaces). What are three things to consider when deciding to move away from such component teams toward feature teams? (Choose three.)
1. Productivity may suffer when making this kind of move. 2. Getting support from the business side first helps .3. Feature teams have less communication overhead.
What is a Development Team responsible for? (Choose two.)
1. Resolving internal team conflicts. 2. Organizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal.
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? .
All of the above
The length of a Sprint should be:
All of these answers are correct. (1. Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner. 2. Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events. 3. No more than one month
What is the maximum length of a Sprint?
All of these answers are correct.- -Not so long that the risk is unacceptable to the product owner. - Not so long that other business events can't be readily synchronized with the development work. - No more than one calendar month.
Sprint burndown charts are an efficient tracking tool because they allow:
An estimate of the total work remaining for the sprint
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".
Development Team membership should change:
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
How often should Development Team membership change?
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
During a Sprint, when is new work or further decomposition of work added to the Sprint Backlog?
As soon as possible after they are identified.
What is the tactic a Scrum Master should use to divide a group of 100 people into multiple Development Teams? .
Ask the developers to divide themselves into teams
For the purpose of transparency, when does Scrum say a new increment of working software must be available? .
At the end of every Sprint
What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
By facilitating Development Team decisions and removing impediments
During a Sprint Retrospective, the development team proposes moving the Daily Scrum to only occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Which two are the most appropriate responses for the Scrum Master?
Coach the team on why the Daily Scrum is important as an opportunity to update the plan.e. Learn why the Development Team wants this and work with them to improve the outcome of the Daily Scrum
Five new Scrum Teams have been created to build one product. A few of the developers on one of the Development Teams ask the Scrum Master how to coordinate their work with the order teams. What should the Scrum Master do? .
Collect the Sprint tasks from the teams at the end of their Sprint Planning and merge that into a consolidated plan for the entire Sprint
The development team realizes mid-sprint that the work they have planned will most likely not allow them to meet the Sprint Goal. They hold a discussion and come up with a new strategy to achieve the Sprint Goal by altering the Sprint's work plan. What Scrum Values are highlighted in this article?
Courage, commitment
What is the best suited structure for development team in order to produce integrated increments?
Each development team develops functionality from beginning to end throughout all technical layers.
Upon What kind of process control is SCRUM based?
Empirical
How much of the Sprint Backlog must be defined during the Sprint Planning event?
Enough so the Development Team can create its best forecast of what is can do, and to start the first several days of the Sprint.
How should a Development Team deal with non-functional requirements?
Ensure every Increment meets them.
What is the Nexus Integration Team's main concern during a scaled Scrum endeavor with Nexus?(choose the most appropriate response
Ensuring a working integrated increment is delivered
A Scrum Team is only allowed to meet with stakeholders during Sprint Review.
False
Scrum is a methodology that tells how to build software incrementally.
False
The Product Owner makes sure the team selects enough from the Product Backlog for a Sprint to satisfy the stakeholders. .
False
The Scrum Team should choose at least one high priority process improvement, identified during the Sprint Retrospective, and place it in the Product Backlog.
False
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
What does it mean for a Development Team to be cross-functional?
The Development Team includes cross-skilled individuals who are able to contribute to do what is necessary to deliver an increment of software
For which is the Scrum Master responsible?
The Scrum (framework) process being adopted and used properly.
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
The Sprint Review is mainly an inspect and adapt opportunity for which group?
The scrum Team and stakeholders
What is the role of management in Scrum?
To facilitate the Scrum Teams with insights and resources that help them improve.
What is the purpose of a Sprint Review?
To inspect the product increment with the stakeholders and collect feedback on next steps.
A properly functioning Scrum Team will have at least one Release Sprint and may well have several.
True
Multiple Scrum Teams working on the same product or system all select work from the same Product Backlog.
True
Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."
True
For Scrum teams, velocity is a popular statistic. Which of the following velocity assertions is correct?(choose the top three answers) Please select 3 correct answers
Velocity can be a useful metric for a team to self-inspect. Velocity is an output measurement. Velocity is often impacted by estimation, scoping of Backlog Items and team composition
The Product Backlog is ordered by: .
Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner
The Product Owner must release each Increment to production.
When it makes sense
If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend tine through a release burndown chart indicate?
When the work remaining will be likely completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or the Development Team
A team member has a pattern of being disrespectful and unethical. When confronted, he intimidates other team members and refuses to respect working arrangements set within the team. His teammates appear to be apprehensive about holding him accountable. Is a Scrum Master the best person to help with this problem?(Select the most appropriate response)
Yes, The Scrum Master is a servant-leader that removes impediments. This behaviour is becoming an impediment to the team. He should address this issue with care.
If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what do they track?
work remaining across time
The definitions of "Done" is used to:
1. Describe the work that must be done before the Sprint is hallowed to end 2. Increase transparency
A Scrum Master is introducing Scum to a new Development Team. The Development Team has decided that a retrospective is unnecessary. What action should the Scrum Master take?
Being facilitating productive and useful retrospectives
A 2000 person software company has been losing money and market share for 3 consecutive years. The CEO has worked hard on the last resort, a merger with a software giant. As part of this merger the CEO feels the company needs to "go agile," and wants all 200 teams to use Scrum as soon as possible. Which of the following strategies is the best course of action?
Bring the pros and cons of the merger to the departments and their teams to stress urgency. Bring in external people with relevant experience to work with the teams to understand and adopt Scrum. Work with the Scrum Masters to identify organizational problems that hinder the teams.
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.
The three pillars of empirical process control are:
Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
if two scrum team are added to the development of a product that previously had only one scrum team, what will be the immediate impact on the productivity of the original scrum team? B)
Its productivity is likely to decrease
How much time is required after a Sprint to prepare for the next Sprint?
None. A new Sprint starts immediately following the end of the previous Sprint.
A Scrum Master is working with a Development Team that has members in different physical locations. The Development Team meets in a variety of meeting rooms and has much to do logistically (for example, set up conference calls) before the Daily Scrum. What action should the Scrum Master take?
Set up the meeting and tell the development team that this is how it will be done
How is management external to the Scrum Team involved in the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team self-manages and is the only management required at the Daily Scrum.
What are three benefits of self-organization?
1. Increased self-accountability2. Increased commitment3. Increased creativity
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
The Product Owner is not collaborating with the Development Team during the Sprint. What are two valuable actions for a Scrum Master to take? (Choose two.) .
1. Bring up the problem in the Sprint Retrospective. 2. Coach the Product Owner in the values of Scrum and incremental delivery
Choose two responsibilities of self-organizing Development Team
1. Do the work planned in the Spring Backlog 2. Increase Velocity 3. Pull Product Backlog Items for the Sprint
A Development Team selects a set of Product Backlog items for a Sprint Backlog with the intent to get the selected items Done by the end of the Sprint. Which three phrases best describe the purpose of a definition of Done? (Choose three.)
1. It creates transparency over the work inspected at the Sprint Review. 2. It trucks the percent completeness of a Product Backlog item. 3. It defines what it takes for an Increment to be ready for release.
The purpose of a Sprint is to have a working increment of product done before the Sprint Review
True
What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
1. By facilitating Development Team decisions 2. By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team
What are three ways Scrum promotes self-organization? (Choose three.)
1. By the Development Team deciding what work to do in a Sprint. 2. By removing titles for Development Team members. 3. By being a lightweight framework.
Choose three responsibilities of a self-organizing Development Team. Choose three answers
1. Do the work planned in the Sprint Backlog 2. Increase Velocity 3. Pull product backlog items for the spring
What are two responsibilities of testers in a Development Team? (Choose two.)
1. Everyone in the Development Team is responsible for quality. 2. Scrum has no tester role.
Select two ways in which technical debt impacts transparency. (Choose two.)
1. It leads to false assumptions about the current state of the system, specifically of an Increment being releasable at the end of a Sprint .2. As development progresses and code is added, the system becomes more difficult to stabilize, which results in future work being slowed down in unpredictable ways
A Development Team is required to deliver a done increment by the end of a Sprint. Select two statements that explain what Done means. (Choose two.)
1. No work left from the definition of Done. 2. All work to create software that is ready to be released to end users.
Multiple Scrum Teams working on the same project must have the same Sprint start date.
False
Scrum has a role called a Project Manager.
False
What is the accountability of the product owner during sprint 0?
Gathering, eliciting, and analyzing the requirements that will be inserted into the product backlog
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.
Technical systems can be decomposed to composite elements, from the large to the small. Basic components may be represented as activities, workflows, functions, features, capabilities, and other similar nomenclature. How does this system decomposition affect Scrum Teams on scaled projects?
How the organization discusses and plans the work of creating software will be reflected in the implementation of that software.
The Scrum Master observes the Product Owner struggling with ordering the Product Backlog. What would you consider an appropriate action for Scrum Master to take?
Offer the Product Owner helps in ordering the Product Backlog from an understanding that the goal is to maximize value
During a Sprint Retrospective, for what is the Product Owner responsible?
Participating as a Scrum Team member.
The Scrum Team is irritated with their Product Owner because he constantly interrupts them and asks how things are going. The Product Owner claims that he is just eager, and that the Scrum Guide supports regular inspection. What exactly do you do?(Choose the two best responses)
Plan a moment for the Scrum Team to discuss how to inspect and uphold transparency between all members without negatively impacting the work being done. Teach the Product Owner that his behavior should not obstruct the work being done.
During the Sprint Review, it became clear that some of the work isn't "Done" due to integration issues. The team cites a lack of integration tools as an example. What do you do as a Scrum Master?(Choose the two best responses)
Suggest the Product Owner to make room in the upcoming Sprint for non-functional Backlog Items about integration tooling. Note this down as something to address during the Sprint Retrospective.
The IT manager asks a Development Team for a status report describing the progress throughout the sprint. The Development Teams asks the Scrum Master for advice. The Scrum Master should:
Talk to the IT manager and explain that progress in Scrum comes from inspecting an Increment at the Sprint Review.
How should Product Backlog items be chosen when multiple Scrum Teams work from the same Product Backlog?
The Development Teams pull in work in agreement with the Product Owner.
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
Self-organization works best when there are goals and boundaries. Select two requirements from the Scrum framework that are key for a Scrum Master to teach teams to help them self-organize:
1. Time-boxing events to manage risks . 2 Creating a releasable Increment by the end of each Sprint
The time-box for a Daily Scrum?
15 minutes
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 Daily Scrum is an event that happens every day. What would be three key concerns if the frequency were to be lowered to every two or three days? (Choose three.)
1. Opportunities to insect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are lost. 2. Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly. 3. The Product Owner cannot accurately report progress to the stakeholders.
As the Sprint Planning meeting progresses, the Development Team sees that the workload is greater than they can handle. Which two are valid actions? (Choose two.)
1. The Development Team ensures that the Product Owner is aware, starts the Sprint, and monitors progress .2. Remove or change selected Product Backlog items
Currently, your Development Teams are organized to address a single layer only (for example, front end, middle tier, back end, and interfaces). What are three things to consider when deciding to move away from such component teams toward feature teams?
1. You cannot do Scrum without feature teams. 2. Getting support from the business side first helps. 3. Productivity may suffer when making this kind of move.
The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is? .
8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter
A scrum master is keeping a list of open impediments, but it is growing and he/she has been able to resolve only a small portion of the impediments. Which three techniques would be most helpful in this situation?
1. Prioritize the list and work on them in order 2. Alert management to the impediments and their impact 3. Consult with the development team
Select three incorrect, untrue, or misleading statements about Scrum?
1. Scrum is a methodology where you can pick and choose which parts of Scrum you think will work for your environment. 2. Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-organization to replace Project Managers. 3. Scrum is a framework that eliminates complexity.
A Development Team asks their Product Owner to re-order the Product Backlog. The team is waiting for an external supplier to deliver a specific software component. Without that component there won't be enough work in the next Sprint to occupy the full team. The Product Owner asks the Scrum Master for help.What would be good advice to give the Product Owner?
Tell the Product Owner that his primary concern is the flow of value reflected in the ordering of the Product Backlog.
In the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner and the Development Team were unable to reach a clear understanding about the highest order Product Backlog items. Because of this, the Development Team couldn't figure out how many Product Backlog items it could forecast for the upcoming Sprint. They were able to agree on a Sprint Goal, however.Which of the following two actions should the Scrum Master support? (Choose two.
1. Forecast the most likely Product Backlog items to meet the goal and create a Sprint Backlog based on a likely initial design and plan. Once the time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is over, start the Sprint and continue to analyze, decompose, and create additional functionality during the Sprint. 2. Discuss in the upcoming Sprint Retrospective why this happened and what changes will make it less likely to recur.
A Product Owner wants advice from the Scrum Master about estimating work in Scrum. Which of these is the guideline that a Scrum Master should give?
Estimates are made by the Development Team.
A product Increment must be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
False
It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
False
Marian is the Product Owner envisioning a project for a new release of her product. She made a projection of a release date based upon a sustained velocity of 17 completed units of work per Sprint. Over the first 3 Sprints, the average velocity was 13 for work that the Development Team estimated as 90% done. The Development Teams, feeling the need to meet the plan, figured that a velocity of 17 was within their reach.A good way to continue is:
The Development Team makes sure that all of the selected scope per Sprint is as Done as possible. The undone work is estimated and added to the Sprint Backlog of the next Sprint, so it doesn't mess up the Product Backlog.
A new developer is having continuing conflicts with existing Development Team members and creating a hostile environment. If necessary, responsible for removing the team member?
The Scrum Master is responsible, because he/she removes impediments The Development team is responsible, and may need help from the Scrum Master
What happens if the Development team cannot complete its work by the end of the Spring?
The Spring length holds and the development team continuously learns what is actually possible to do within a Spring of this length
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.
What happens if the Development Team cannot complete its work by the end of the Spring?
The Sprint length holds and the development team continuously learns what is actually possible to do within a spring of this length
What are two things a group of 100 people should take into account when they are forming into multiple Scrum Teams?
The mixture of senior and junior people on each team The mixture of skills in each team to avoid dependencies on external experts
To get started in terms of what to build, Scrum requires no more than a Product Owner with enough ideas for a first Sprint, a Development Team to implement those ideas and a Scrum Master to help guide the process.
True
Can Scrum be used at a company where the time, scope, and money for a product are all predetermined?(choose the top three answers)
Yes, but it may be less effective Yes, Scrum acknowledges that time and money are finite, and aims to build the highest value product within those constraints. Yes, though the Scrum Master should teach the organization about the drawbacks of this approach when building complex products.