Scrum Basics
This Scrum event happens every day and is timeboxed to 15 minutes.
What is the Daily Scrum?
Agile values responding to change over following this.
What is a plan?
This event exists to inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog.
What is the Sprint Review?
This measures how long it takes for work to go from started to done.
What is cycle time?
The Scrum Master is accountable for coaching the team in this.
What is Scrum?
This member of a Scrum team is accountable for maximizing the value of the product.
Who is the Product Owner?
Agile values working software over this.
What is comprehensive documentation?
This event focuses on improving how the team works, not what they work on.
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
This metric tracks how often teams successfully release to production.
What is deployment frequency?
A Scrum Master’s primary stance is this, not command and control.
What is servant leadership?
The Sprint Goal is created during this event.
What is Sprint Planning?
In Scrum, estimates are meant to create this - not a promise or commitment.
What is a forecast?
Sprint Planning answers these three topics: why, what, and this.
What is how?
This percentage shows how much planned work was actually completed in a Sprint.
What is completion rate?
When the team is stuck, a great Scrum Master often responds by doing this instead of giving answers.
What is asking powerful questions?
This artifact provides transparency into the work completed during the Sprint and the work remaining.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
This team member is NOT a people manager in Scrum, despite common belief.
Who is the Scrum Master?
The maximum length of a Sprint, regardless of team size or product complexity.
What is one month?
This metric measures how long it takes to restore service after an incident.
What is mean time to restore (MTTR)?
This is the invisible condition a Scrum Master cultivates so teams can surface real problems.
What is psychological safety?
According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum has exactly this many accountabilities (previously called roles).
What is three?
The primary benefit of Agile is NOT speed, but improving this over time.
What is value delivery?
This is the only required event where stakeholders regularly attend.
What is the Sprint Review?
This metric should not be used to compare teams.
What is velocity?
The most effective Scrum Masters optimize for this long-term outcome, not short-term output.
What is sustainable improvement (or team effectiveness)?