Accountabilities
This person is solely responsible for maximizing the value of the product and managing the Product Backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
This is an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product.
What is the Product Backlog?
This 15-minute daily event is strictly for the Developers to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal.
What is the Daily Scrum?
Scrum is founded on this philosophical theory, which asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed.
What is Empiricism?
This common anti-pattern occurs when a Scrum Master or Product Owner demands status updates from each developer during the Daily Scrum, turning it into a reporting meeting.
What is a Status Update / Micromanagement?
This role acts as a accountable leader who serves the Scrum Team and the larger organization by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice.
Who is the Scrum Master?
This artifact is highly visible, real-time reflection of the work that the Developers plan to accomplish during the Sprint to achieve the Sprint Goal.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
This event concludes the Sprint and is used to inspect the realization of the Sprint Goal and plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
These are the three pillars of empirical process control.
These are the three pillars of empirical process control.
The anti-pattern of adding extra, unrequested features to a product backlog item just because "we had extra time."
What is Gold-Plating?
The Scrum Guide states that this specific group holds the ultimate accountability for creating a usable Increment each Sprint.
Who are the Developers?
This formal description serves as the commitment for the Product Backlog, ensuring everyone knows what the future state of the product looks like.
What is the Product Goal?
This is the maximum time-box for a Sprint Planning session for a one-month Sprint.
What is 8 hours?
This Scrum Value means the team supports each other to do the right thing and work on tough problems.
What is Courage?
This occurs when a team carries over unfinished work from Sprint to Sprint without adjusting their capacity or investigating the root cause.
What is Spillover (or Carrying Over Work)?
This is the specific, maximum number of people recommended for a Scrum Team to ensure optimal communication and productivity.
What is 10 or fewer?
This is a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product.
What is the Definition of Done?
This event is the second-to-last event in the Sprint, where the Scrum Team and stakeholders review what was accomplished and adapt the Product Backlog.
What is the Sprint Review?
This Scrum Value emphasizes that the team's primary attention is on the work of the Sprint and the goals of the Scrum Team.
What is Focus?
The dangerous practice of changing the Sprint Goal mid-Sprint because stakeholders suddenly remembered a "critical" feature.
What is Scope Creep / Moving Target?
True or False: The Scrum Master acts as a people manager for the Developers, responsible for their performance reviews.
What is False? (Scrum Masters are leaders, not HR managers).
Once a Product Backlog item meets the Definition of Done, it instantly becomes one of these.
What is an Increment?
This is the only person who has the authority to cancel a Sprint before the Sprint time-box is over.
Who is the Product Owner? (And only if the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete).
Name all 5 Scrum Values.
What are Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage?
This anti-pattern involves creating a separate "Testing Sprint" or "Hardening Sprint" before a release, which violates the core Scrum concept of a potentially releasable increment every Sprint.
What is Water-Scrum-Fall (or Phased Sprints)?