SCRUM Simulation test 1

1. When does a Developer become accountable for the value of a Product Backlog item selected for the Sprint?

(Choose the best answer)

• Whenever a team member can accommodate more work

• At the Sprint Planning Event

• Never. The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating value every Sprint

• During the Daily Scrum

Who is on the Scrum Team

• A. The Product Owner

• A. The Scrum Master

• A. Developers

• A. Project Manager

The CEO asks the Developers to add a “very important” item to a Sprint that is in progress. What should the Developers do?

(Choose the best answer)

• A. Inform the other members of the Scrum Team so the team can decide what to do

• A. Add the item to the next Sprint

• A. Add the item to the current Sprint and drop an item of equal size

• A. Add the item to the current Sprint without any adjustments

The three pillars of empiricism are:

(Choose the best answer)

• A. Respect for people, Kaizen, Eliminating Waste

• A. Planning, Inspection, Adaptation

• A. Planning, Demonstration, Retrospective

• A. Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation

• A. Transparency, Eliminating Waste, Kaizen

Which Scrum events are timeboxed?

(Choose the best three answers)

• A. Release Testing

• A. Sprint Retrospective

• A. Refinement

• A. Sprint Planning

• A. Sprint Review

When does a Developer become the sole owner of a Sprint Backlog item?

(Choose the best answer)

• A. At the Sprint Planning event

• A. During the Daily Scrum

• A. Never. All Sprint Backlog items are “owned” by the developers on the Scrum Team even though each item may be implemented by an individual Developer

• A. Whenever a team member can accommodate more work

The length of a Sprint should be:

(Choose the best answer)

• A. Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner

• A. Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events

• A. One month or less

• A. All of the above

The timebox for a Daily Scrum is?

(Choose the best answer)

• A. 15 minutes for a 4-week sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter

• A. 4 hours

• A. The same time of a day every day

• A. 15 minutes

• A. Two minutes per person

The timebox for the Sprint Planning event is

(Choose the best answer)

• A. Monthly

• A. Whenever it is done

• A. 8 hours for monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter

• A. 4 hours

Select three incorrect, untrue, or misleading statements about Scrum

(Choose the best three answers)

• A. Scrum is a framework that eliminate complexity

• A. Scrum is a framework that for developing and sustaining complex products

• A. Scrum is a methodology where you can pick and choose which parts of Scrum you think will work for your environment

• A. Scrum is like traditional processes but with self-organization to replace Project Managers

• A. Scrum is based on empirical process control theory