Scrum Theory
What comprises Scrum (select four)?.
a)Burn-down charts
b)Roles
c)Events
d)Reports
e)Artifacts
f)Rules
b)Roles
c)Events
e)Artifacts
f)Rules
The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage. The rules of Scrum bind together the events, roles, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interaction between them.
Sort Scrum events in the right order.
1.Sprint Review
2.Daily Scrum
3.Sprint Retrospective
4.Sprint Planning
a) True
b) False
b) False
A sprint begins with Sprint Planning, then there are several Daily Scrum meetings following by Sprint Review and then Sprint Retrospective
Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?
a)Developers
b)The Scrum Master
c)The Scrum Team
d)The Product Owner
e)The Product owner and the Development Team
f)The Scrum Master and the Development Team
g)The Product owner and the Scrum Master
a) Developers
The Development Team is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog. The Product Owner may influence the Development Team by helping it understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate.
The Scrum Master does the following regarding the Daily Scrum (select all applicable variants):
a)Is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum
b)Teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box
c)Enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum
d)Ensures that the Development Team has the meeting
b)Teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box
c)Enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum
d)Ensures that the Development Team has the meeting
The Scrum Master
• Ensures that the Development Team has the meeting, but the Development Team is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum.
• Teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box.
• Enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum.
SCRUM EVENTS
Check all the formal opportunities to inspect and adapt.
a)The Sprint Retrospective
b)The Daily Scrum
c)The Sprint Planning
d)The Sprint Review
e)The Sprint
a)The Sprint Retrospective
b)The Daily Scrum
c)The Sprint Planning
d)The Sprint Review
Other than the Sprint itself, which is a container for all other events, each event in Scrum is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt something. These events are specifically designed to enable critical transparency and inspection.
What should be taken into account for the Definition of “Done”? Select the two most appropriate items.
a)Definition of "Done" of other Scrum Teams working on the same Product
b)Conventions, standards and guidelines of the Organization
c)Experience of the Product Owner
d)Definition of "Done" of other Scrum Teams working on other products
e)Advice of the Scrum Master
a)Definition of "Done" of other Scrum Teams working on the same Product
b)Conventions, standards and guidelines of the Organization
If the definition of “done” for an increment is part of the conventions, standards or guidelines of the development organization, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum. If “done” for an increment is not a convention of the development organization, the Development Team of the Scrum Team must define a definition of “done” appropriate for the product. If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the system or product release, the development teams on all of the Scrum Teams must mutually define the definition of “Done.”
Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?
a)The Scrum Master
b)The Product Owner
c)Developers
d)The Key Stakeholders
c) Developers
The Scrum Master enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum. Other people could attend the meeting, but cannot participate
What is the Increment?
a)All "Done" items in the Sprint Backlog
b)The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints
c)The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint
d)All items in the Sprint Backlog that could be released regardless of whether the Product Owner decides to actually do it
b)The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints
The Increment is the sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints.
It is a good practice to have at least two Product Owners on big projects.
a)True
b)False
b)False
SCRUM ARTIFACTS
All Development Teams working on the same Product should use the same Product Backlog.
a)True
b)False
a)True
Multiple Scrum Teams often work together on the same product. One Product Backlog is used to describe the upcoming work on the product.
What is the essence of Scrum? Select the most appropriate option.
a)A small team of people that is highly flexible and adaptive
b)The Development Team
c)The Scrum Guide
d)The Scrum Master and the Product Owner
a)A small team of people that is highly flexible and adaptive
The essence of Scrum is a small team of people. The individual team is highly flexible and adaptive. These strengths continue operating in single, several, many, and networks of teams that develop, release, operate and sustain the work and work products of thousands of people. They collaborate and interoperate through sophisticated development architectures and target release environments
What are the questions the Sprint Planning answers? Select two:
a)How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?
b)What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
c)What is the size of the Technical Debt and how it could be removed?
d)Who will be responsible for each item in the Sprint Backlog?
e)What new technologies could be used to speed up the Development Team velocity?
a)How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?
b)What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
Sprint Planning answers the following:
• What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
• How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?
What is the order of items in the Product Backlog?
a)Alphabetical
b)Less valuable and most unclear items at the bottom
c)The less clear items at the top
d)The recently added items at the top
b)Less valuable and most unclear items at the bottom
The Product Owner is responsible for placing the most valuable and clear items at the top of the Product Backlog.The Product Owner is responsible for placing the most valuable and clear items at the top of the Product Backlog.
How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner? Select the three most appropriate answers.
a)Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed
b)Introducing cutting edge development practices
c)Understanding product planning in an empirical environment
d)Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management
e)Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption
a)Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed
c)Understanding product planning in an empirical environment
d)Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management
The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:
• 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; and,
• Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
SCRUM THEORY
What does Burn-down Chart show?
a)How much work remains till the end of the Sprint
b)The evolution of the amount of uncertainty during a project
c)Dependencies, start times and stop times for project tasks
d)Hierarchy of tasks that comprise a project
a)How much work remains till the end of the Sprint
Burn-down chart shows the evolution of remaining effort against time
If an item in the Sprint Backlog cannot be finished by the end of the Sprint (it turned out there is a lot more work to do than was estimated), the Sprint is cancelled.
a)False
b) True
a) False
The Sprint is cancelled only in the case if the Sprint Goal became obsolete. If some work could not be done, the Sprint Backlog should be re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team.
Who is responsible for crafting the Sprint Goal at the Sprint Planning?
a)The Scrum Team
b)The Product Owner
c)The Scrum Master
d)The Development Team
e)The Key Stakeholders
a)The Scrum Team
After the Development Team forecasts the Product Backlog items it will deliver in the Sprint, the Scrum Team crafts a Sprint Goal.
What could be a source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product?
a)The CEO of the Organization
b)The Key Stakeholders
c)The Product Backlog
c)The Product Backlog
The Product Backlog is an ordered list of everything that might be needed in the product and is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product.
Who is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum? Select the best choice.
a)The Scrum Master
b)The Product Owner
c)The Scrum Master and the Product Owner
d)The Development Team
e)The Scrum Team
a)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.
SCRUM ARTIFACTS
What belongs solely to the Development Team
a)The Sprint Backlog
b)The Increment
c)The Definition of Done
d)The Product Backlog
a)The Sprint Backlog
Only the Development Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work that the Development Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Development Team
How frequently should scrum users inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal?
a)After the Daily Scrum
b)At the Sprint Review
c)Frequently, but it should not get in the way of the work
d)As frequently as possible
c)Frequently, but it should not get in the way of the work
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 happens when a Sprint is cancelled? Select three.
a)All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog
b)Any completed and “Done” Product Backlog items are reviewed
c)Several top Product Backlog Items are taken into the Sprint Backlog to replace the obsolete items
d)At the Sprint Retrospective the Scrum Master determines who from the Development Team is responsible for cancelling the Sprint
e)If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it
a)All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog
b)Any completed and “Done” Product Backlog items are reviewed
e)If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it
When a Sprint is cancelled, any completed and “Done” Product Backlog items are reviewed. If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it. All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog
Who is responsible for coping with incomplete artifact transparency?
a)The Product Owner
b)The Scrum Team
c)The Scrum Master
d)The Development Team
c) The Scrum Master
The Scrum Master’s job is to work with the Scrum Team and the organization to increase the transparency of the artifacts. This work usually involves learning, convincing, and change
The Scrum Master is focused primarily on the Scrum Team and usually does not care about those outside the Scrum Team.
a)True
b)False
b)False
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.
SCRUM EVENTS
Define the time-box for each Scrum event.
Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
•Daily Scrum 15 minutes
•Sprint Planning 8 hours or less
•Sprint Review 4 hours or less
•Sprint Retrospective 3 hours or less
• Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
• The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
• Sprint Review is a four-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
• Sprint Retrospective is a three-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.