Scrum - Roles

Must the Product Owner be present at the Sprint Retrospective?

• It is optional. Attendance is only required when the Product Owner gets invited by the Scrum Master.

• It is mandatory. The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to assess its performance and improve itself.

• It is not allowed. The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Development Team to inspect itself.

How important is it for a Product Owner to order Product Backlog items by value points?

• Using value points is the ultimate way for a Product Owner to predict the value that the product will provide.

• It is a good practice, keeping in mind that market reception is the best measure of value.

• Calculating value points is an upfront approach that conflicts with the empiricism of Scrum, and is therefore not acceptable.

The Product Owner manages the Product Backlog. Who is accountable for estimating the effort to complete the Product Backlog items?

• The Development Team. As a collective, they have a complete view of the work needed to transform Product Backlog items into Increments of product.

• The PMO. They have all the history on projects delivered, and this enables the IT department to make delivery commitments.

• The Product Owner. The Product Owner is required to commit on delivery to the users and the stakeholders.

What two phrases best describe the relationship of the Product Owner and the Development Team?

• They should work apart as much as possible in order to keep the concerns of business and technology separated.

• They collaborate often so the Product Owner can make informed decisions in balancing effort and value of Product Backlog items.

• The Product Owner should be with the Development Team full-time to grow a deep understanding of the technology being used.

• They collaborate often so the Development Team builds Increments keeping end-user and stakeholder concerns in mind.

• They should share no more than the Sprint Planning and the Sprint Review meeting.

What two things should be done if the Product Owner is unavailable?

• Within the Sprint, the Development Team makes the best decisions possible to assure progress toward the Sprint Goal, re-aligning with the Product Owner once he/she is available again.

• There should be a Product Owner team to allow a different person from that team to instantly take over the role of Product Owner.

• In a permanent state of unavailability, a new Product Owner needs to be appointed. Development efforts without a Product Owner are not employing Scrum.

• Development of functional requirements stops until the Product Owner is available again.

You have just been hired by a company new to Scrum. Your management has assigned you to be the Scrum Master of six new Scrum Teams. These teams will build one product. Select 2 conditions you should strive for in this scenario.

• There should be only one Product Owner

• The product has one Product Backlog

• There should be six Product Owners, reporting to a chief Product Owner

• There should be six Product Owners, one for each Scrum Team

• Each Scrum Team should have a separate Product Backlog

Who is accountable for releasing the most valuable product possible?

• The Scrum Master

• The Development Team

• The Product Owner

• The CEO

• The Scrum Team

What is the tactic a Scrum Master should use to divide a group of 100 people into multiple Development Teams?

• Ask the developers to divide themselves into teams

• Create teams based on their skills across multiple layers (such as database, UI etc.)

• Ask the Product Owner to assign the people to teams

Which 2 ways of creating Development Teams are consistent with Scrum’s values?

• Managers collaborate to assign individuals to specific teams

• Managers personally re-assign current subordinates to new teams

• Bring all the developers together and let them self-organize into Development Teams

• The Chief Product Owner determines the new team structures and assignments

• Existing teams propose how they would like to go about organizing into new structure

What is a Development Team responsible for? (2 Answers)

• Selecting the Product Owner

• Reporting productivity

• Resolving internal team conflicts

• Organizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal