Scrum Basics
What term does Chapter 6 use for the amount of work a Team completes in a particular period of time?
Velocity
Who has authority over product requirements and their sequencing?
Product Owner
What does PBI stand for?
Product Backlog Item
What daily Scrum meeting is always capped at 15 minutes?
Daily Stand-Up
Which chart primarily shows the amount of work remaining during a Sprint?
Burndown chart
What are the two levels of governance defined in Chapter 6?
Project and Program
Who is responsible for facilitating meetings, enforcing the process, monitoring progress, and removing obstacles?
Scrum Master
What are the three types of PBIs?
User stories
Technical stories
Defects
During what meeting are PBIs selected from the Product Backlog for implementation during the upcoming Sprint?
Sprint Planning
Which chart shows progress toward completing the planned scope of a Release?
Burn-up chart
If a Team completes Sprint Velocities of 20, 25, 30, and 25 during one Release, what is its Release Velocity?
100
Who has authority over estimates, Task definitions, and Task assignments?
The Team
What do you call a specification that's too large to implement directly and therefore must be decomposed into smaller PBIs?
Epic
What is one of the three questions each Team member addresses during the Daily Stand-Up?
What have I been doing since the last meeting?
What will I do before the next meeting?
What issues are slowing me down?
What meeting brings representatives from multiple Scrum Teams together to address cross-Team issues and dependencies?
Scrum-of-Scrums
How long are the software Sprints, and how many software Sprints occur during one hardware Sprint?
Two-week software Sprints; two software Sprints occur during one hardware Sprint.
Which Program-level role focuses on cross-Team collaboration, dependencies, risks, and overall Release progress?
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 technique has Team members concentrate on high-ranked PBIs and work together to complete them as quickly as possible?
Swarming
Who has the authority to make the final decision in Release Review?
Area Product Owner
Chapter 6 identifies five key elements used to define a process. Name three of them.
Roles
Ceremonies
Artifacts
Tracking and Metrics
Governance Points
What's the major difference between the Team Product Owner and Area Product Owner?
Team Product Owner - manages specific scrum team
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 is a Sprint Retrospective?
The meeting that examines current processes and identifies improvements for future sprints
During Release Planning, what three major factors determine how work should be sequenced and assigned?
Value, dependencies, and estimated Velocity.