The Basics
What are the 5 events in Scrum?
The sprint
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Who is the SM and what does he/she do?
The Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide, and the scrum team's effectiveness. They do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization.
What are some drawbacks to using scrum?
-Teams need to be collaborative and committed to ensuring results.
-Tasks need to be well defined.
-It works better for smaller projects and is difficult to scale to larger, more complex projects.
What is Technical debt?
It is the cost incurred when a temporary fix is applied to get the work done and later on has to be fixed again thereby pulling back things.
Define the Scrum Roles?
Developers; the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint.
Product Owner; is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.
Scrum Master; is accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide.
What is Scrum-ban?
It is a methodology that combines Scrum and Kanban. Scrum-ban can be used to meet the needs of the team, and to minimize the batching of work.
How can conflict be dealt with within the scrum team?
Resolving conflict can be done by using a root-cause analysis approach.
What is the problem? Why did it happen? What will be done to prevent it from happening again?
What is Test driven development?
Test, then write code to pass test.
What are the Scrum Artifacts and their respective commitments?
For the Product Backlog it is the Product Goal.
For the Sprint Backlog it is the Sprint Goal.
For the Increment it is the Definition of Done.
What is a "Scrum of Scrums"?
It is a terminology used for scaled agile technologies, which is required to control and collaborate with multiple scrum teams. It is best used in situations where teams are collaborating on complex assignments.
What are the 4 agile values?
Responding to change over following a plan
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools
What are the 3 pillars of scrum?
Transparency
Inspection
Adaptation
Differentiate between agile and scrum.
Agile is a set of principles that is iterative and incremental in nature, while scrum is an implementation of the agile methodology.
What is user-story mapping?
User story mapping represents and arranges user stories that help with understanding system functionalities, system backlog, planning releases, and providing value to customers.
What is the Definition of Done?
A shared understanding within the scrum team on what it takes to make product backlog items to be complete. Acceptance tests must be approved.
What are bugs?
A malfunction in the system that causes an incorrect result. It can be;
High priority - effects core functions
Medium priority - can be worked around
Low priority - issue is cosmetic
How are the product and sprint backlog different from each other?
The product backlog is a list of items that need to be completed for developing the product, while the sprint backlog is a list of items to be completed during each sprint.
What is empiricism as it relates to scrum?
Empiricism refers to work that's based on facts, experiences, evidence, observations, and experimentation. It is established and followed in scrum to ensure project progress and interpretations based on facts of observations.
What is the timebox for Backlog refinement?
As much time as needed.
What does SAFe stand for?
Scale Agile Framework