Scrum Basics
What is the fixed-length development cycle in which a Scrum Team completes and tests a planned set of work?
Sprint
Which Scrum role owns and defines the specific product requirements for the Team?
Team Product Owner
What does PBI stand for?
Product Backlog Item
What recurring Scrum meeting happens every day and should be kept very short?
Daily Stand-Up
Which chart primarily shows the amount of work remaining during a Sprint?
Burndown chart
What term describes the amount of work completed during a particular period?
Velocity
Which role owns the development process, facilitates meetings, and monitors progress?
Scrum Master
What are the three types of PBIs?
User stories
Technical stories
Defects
Which ceremony prepares the Team for future Sprints by making sure PBIs are clear, complete, properly ranked, and understood?
Backlog Grooming
What is the difference between a Sprint and a Release?
A Sprint is a short work cycle; a Release is a larger cycle containing multiple Sprints.
What are the two levels of governance presented in Scrum?
Project Governance and Program Governance
In the context of chapter 6, how many members normally make up the Team?
3-9
What do you call a specification that's too large to implement directly and therefore must be decomposed into smaller PBIs?
Epic
Which ceremony takes place at the beginning of a Sprint and determines the work that will be completed?
Sprint Planning Meeting
What meeting brings representatives from multiple Scrum Teams together to address cross-Team issues and dependencies?
Scrum-of-Scrums
If a Team completes Sprint Velocities of 20, 25, 30, and 25 during one Release, what is its Release Velocity?
100
Which role coordinates dependencies, risks, progress, and collaboration across multiple Scrum Teams?
Program Manager
What Scrum artifact establishes the policies and requirements that must be satisfied before a Team considers a deliverable completed?
Definition of Done
What is a Sprint Retrospective?
The meeting that examines current processes and identifies improvements for future sprints
What two questions are Teams supposed to answer during a Scrum-of-Scrums?
1. What is our Team doing that affects other Teams?
2. What are other Teams doing that's blocking us?
How many software sprints can occur in 2 hardware sprints
4
What's the major difference between the Team Product Owner and Area Product Owner?
Team Product Owner - manages specific scrum team requirements
Area Product Owner - handles overall product requirements
What is the primary difference between a User Story and a Technical Story?
User story - describes user-facing functionality
Technical story - describes a non-user-facing deliverable
What are the two main parts of Sprint Planning?
Part 1 develops the preliminary Sprint Plan and Sprint Backlog; Part 2 decomposes the PBIs into individual Tasks.
What is the difference between a Release Review and a Release Retrospective?
Release Review: asks whether the completed product should be released
Release Retrospective: asks how the Release process can be improved