People and Team

Which of the following is a responsibility of the Product Owner?

• Determine the appropriate release dates.

• Determine the Developers composition necessary for success.

• Determine the appropriate solution or approach for the product.

• Determine the length of the Sprints.

Answer explanation

Product owner is the voice of customer. He determines the scope and also the release dates of the products.

The CEO asks one of the Developers to add an activity to the current Sprint. What should the Developers do?

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

• Respect the CEO's authority and add the activity to the current Sprint without any adjustments.

• Inform the Product Owner so he she can work with the CEO.

• Add the activity to the next Sprint.

Answer explanation

The product owner is the only person who takes decision on scope. Therefore he is the person who should work with the CEO.

Which of the following is true concerning impediments (Hinderances)?

• It is the Scrum Master's top priority to remove impediments.

• A slow running server is not considered an impediment.

• It is the Product Owner's job to remove impediments.

• The Developers should not use daily Scrum meetings to report impediments.

Answer explanation

Scrum masters primary responsibility is to remove impediments

Who should define the Definition of Done?

• Product Owner

• Scrum Master

• Product Owner and Scrum Master

• Product Owner and Developers

Answer explanation

Product Owner and Developers should agree upon a Definition of Done before the Sprint Starts

Who is primarily responsible for facilitation, when required, in Scrum events?

• Scrum Master

• Product Owner

• Developers

• No one

Answer explanation

Scrum Master is responsible for facilitation.

What is MOST likely to result if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?

• The Sprint is abnormally terminated.

• The Developers extends the length of the Sprint until the Product Owner returns.

• The product increment may not meet expectations.

• The Scrum Master assumes the responsibilities of the Product Owner.

Answer explanation

Since PO will not review the product increment, what gets produced, may not exactly be what the PO wants.

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

• The Developers. As a collective, they have a complete view of the work needed to transform PBIs 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.

• The Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is supposed to get the estimates done from the Developers.

Answer explanation

The Developers are responsible for all estimates. The people who will perform the work make the final estimate.

During an Sprint planning session, three Scrum Team members could not agree on the estimate for a story after several rounds. One of them is the Product Owner, who is most aware about the business impact. Another is the senior Developer, who has worked on several similar stories in the past. The third person is a junior Developer, who has to work on the story. Whose estimate should be used during Sprint planning?

• Junior Developer

• Senior Developer

• Product owner

• Average of their estimates should be used

Answer explanation

Correct Ans Is Junior Developer————A product owner should not estimate. He or She should clarify – the estimates have to come from the Developers. An senior Developer opinion is valuable and must be considered, but in the event of a disagreement, the estimate of the person who is going to do the actual work should be respected.

On a Scrum project, a important stakeholder is regularly coming into Developers space taking valuable time and causing distractions. How should this be handled?

• The stakeholder should be invited to the Daily Scrum so that he can ask his doubts during the Daily Scrum

• The empowered Developers should address the stakeholder by asking him not to come to their area

• This should be escalated to the product owner and ask the product owner to deal with the stakeholder immediately.

• The Scrum master should take the stakeholder aside and explain the scrum principles to the stakeholder

Answer explanation

The scrum master job is to remove impediments of the Developers. Here the stakeholder is a impediment. So, the stakeholder should be taken to side by the Scrum master or coach and he should be explained that distractions will cause the Developers to digress and Sprint will be affected.