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This flashcard set covers advanced concepts in Scrum, a framework for managing complex projects, particularly in software development. It delves into the roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team, emphasizing the importance of sprints, backlogs, and incremental work. The set also explores key Scrum principles like empirical process control, transparency, and adaptation. Ideal for professionals aiming to master Scrum methodologies, this flashcard set provides insights into effective team collaboration, product development, and project management.

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Who is responsible for clearly expressing Product Backlog Items? (1 Answer)

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Master, or the Scrum Master may have the Dev. Team do it.

The business analyst who represent the Product Owner in the Dev. Team.

The Scrum Master.

A Scrum Master is introducing Scrum to a new Dev. Team. The Dev. Team has decided that a retrospective is unnecessary. What action should the Scrum Master take? (1 Answer)

Comply with the decision of the self-organizing team.

Begin facilitating productive and useful retrospectives.

Consult with the Product Owner to see how he/she feels about the situation.

Call ameeting between the Dev. Team and senior management.

What is the role of management in Scrum? (1 Answer)

Management supports the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product and system capabilities. Management supports the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence...

To identify and remove people that aren't working hard enough.

To continually monitor staffing levels of the Dev. Team.

To monitor the Dev. Team productivity.

The definition of "Done" is used to: (3 Answer)

Increase transparency.

Create a shared understandig of when work is complete.

Describe the purpose, objective and timebox of each Scrum event.

Describe the work that must be done before the Sprint can end.

Guide the Dev. Team on how many Product Backlog items to do in a Sprint.

How often should Dev. Team mebership change? (1 Answer)

Every Sprint to promote shared learning.

Never, because it reduces productivity.

Just as it would on any Dev. Team, with no special allowance fo rchanges in productivity.

As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.

The Product Owner makes sure the team selects enough from the Product Backlog for a Sprint to satisfy the stakeholders.

True

False

An abnormal termination of a Sprint is called when? (1 Answer)

When the Product Owner determines that it makes no sense to finish it.

When it is clear at the end of a Sprint that everything won't be finished.

When the Team feels that the work is too hard.

When Sales has an important opportunity.

The Scrum Master observes the Product Owner struggling with ordering the Product Backlog. What would you consider an appropriate action for the Scrum Master to take? (1 Answer)

Suggest that the Dev. Team does the ordering to be sure that it is a feasible ordering work.

Suggest the Product Owner extend the Sprint, so he can have more time to order the Product Backlog.

Present the Product Owner with an ordered Product Backlog to use.

Encourage the Product Owner to work with the Dev. Team to see which items technically are fastest to implement.

Ofer the Product Owner help in ordering the Product Backlog from an understanding that the goal is to maximize value.

What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps a Dev. Team working at its highest level of productivity? (1 Answer)

By facilitating Dev. Team decisions and removing impediments.

By keeping high value features high in the Product Backlog.

By preventing changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

By ensuring the meetings start and end at the proper time.

What activities would a Product Owner typically undertake in the phase between the current Sprint Review meeting and the next Sprint's Sprint Planning? (1 Answer)

Refining the Product Backlog.

Updating the project plan with stakeholders.

There are no such activities. The next Sprint starts immediately after the current Sprint.

Working with the QA department on the Increment of the current Sprint.

Which tree of the following are true about Scrum? (3 Answers)

Scrum is a framework for developing and maintaining complex products.

Scrum is based on empirical process control theory.

Scrum is a methodology, where you can pick and choose which part of Scrum you think will work for your enviroment.

Each componet of Scrum serves a specific purpose, and is essential to Scrum's success and your usage of Scrum to develop complex products.

Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-organization to replace Projekt Manager.

Which of these may a Dev. Team deliver at the end of a Sprint? (1 Answer)

An increment of software with minor known bugs in it.

A single document, if that is what the Scrum Master asked for.

Failing unit tests, to identify acceptance tests for the next Sprint.

An increment of working software that is "done."

Scrum is a methodology that tells in detail how to build software incrementally.

True

False

During a Sprint, when is new work or further decomposition of work added to the Sprint Backlog? (1 Answer)

As soon as possible after they are identified.

During the Daily Scrum after the Dev. Team approves them.

When the Product Owner identifies new work.

When the Scrum Master has time to enter them.

While under development, the environment in which a product will be used changes and emerges. What is the effect on the Product Backlog? (1 Answer)

It evolves to reflect what the product needs to be most valuable.

It is archieved and a new Product Backlog is created to take its place.

There is no effect, because it has to stay the same until the end of the project.

The requirements specification document, describing the Product Backlog items, must be updated to ensure stabillity.

Items on the Product Backlog tend to be: (1 Answer)

Larger than the items in the Sprint Backlog.

Smaller than the items in the Sprint Backlog.

It depends.

The same size as the items in the Sprint Backlog.

If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend line through a release burndown chart indicate? (1 Answer)

When the projekct will be over if the Product Owner removes work that is equal in effort to any new work that is added.

The evolution of the cost spend on the project.

When all work will be completed so the Scrum Team can be released for the other work.

When the work remaining will likely be completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or the Dev. Team.

When can a Dev. Team cancel a Sprint? (1 Answer)

The Product Owner is absent too often.

A technical dependency cannot be resolved.

Functional expectations are not well understood.

It can't. Only Product Owner can cancel Sprints.

The forecast for the Sprint becomes un-achievable.

The timebox a Daily Scrum is? (1 Answer)

4 hours.

15 min for a 4 week sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

15 minutes.

The same time of a day every day.

Two minutes per person.

The purpouse of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.

True

False

Which of the following might the Scrum Team discuss during a Sprint Retrospective? (1 Answer)

The way the Scrum Team does Sprint Planning.

Skills needed to improve the Dev. Team abillity to deliver.

Methods of communication.

Its Definition of "Done."

All of the above.

When is the Sprint Backlog created? (1 Answer)

During the Sprint

Prior to the Sprin Planning meeting

At the beginning of the projet

During the Sprint Planing meting

Scrum Master is a "management" position?

True

False

The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is? (1 Answer)

8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

Monthly.

Whenever it is done.

4 hours.

Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place? (1 Answer)

The consistency reduces complexity.

The place can be named.

Rooms are hard to book and this lets it be booked in advance.

The Product Owner demands it.

What does it mean to say that an event has a time-box? (1 Answer)

The event can take no more than a maximum amount of time.

The event must take at least a minimum amount of time.

The event must happen by a given time.

The event must happen at a set time.

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.

All of these answers are correct.

Which statement best describes Scrum? (1 Answer)

A complete methodology that defines how to develop software.

A cookbook that defines best practices for software development.

A framework within which complex products in complex environments are developed.

A defined and predictive process that conforms to the principles of Scientific Management.

Upon what type of process control is Scrum based? (1 Answer)

Complex

Empirical

Hybrid

Defined

What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)? (1 Answer)

Minimal 7

7 plus or minus 2

3 to 9

During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master's role is to: (1 Answer)

Lead the discussions of the Development Team.

All answers apply.

Manage the meeting in a way that each team member has a chance to speak.

Teach the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minute time-box.

Make sure that all 3 questions have been answered.

Which of the below are roles on a Scrum Team?

Development Team

Product Owner

Customers

Scrum Master

Users

What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum? (1 Answer)

To gather status and progress information to report to management.

He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.

To write down any changes to the Sprint Backlog, including adding new items, and tracking progress on the burn-down.

To make sure every team member answers the three questions.

The Development Team should have all the skills needed to: (1 Answer)

Complete the project as estimated when the date and cost are committed to the Product Owner.

Do all of the development work, except for specialized testing that requires additional tools and environments.

Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially releasable product functionality.

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. Based on this, which of the following is FALSE? (1 Answer)

As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog changes and may grow as the work emerges.

The Development Team may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if it finds it has more or less capacity than it expected.

The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the Development Team.

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

When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the definition of "done?" (1 Answer)

Each Development Team defines and uses its own. The differences are discussed and reconciled during a hardening Sprint.

Each Development Team uses its own but must make their definition clear to all other Teams so the differences are known.

It depends.

All Development Teams must have a definition of "done" that makes their combined work potentially releasable.

Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."

True

False

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? (1 Answer)

The Product Owner and the Development Team.

The Development Team.

The Product Owner and all stakeholders.

The Scrum Master, the project manager and the Development Team.

The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is: (1 Answer)

2 hours.

1 day.

As long as needed.

4 hours and longer as needed.

4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.

When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.

True

False

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