WorksheetsTest Your "Scrum" Knowledge
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 13mins
The length of a Sprint should be?
Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner.
Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events.
No more than one calendar month.
All of these answers are correct.
The definition of "Done" describes the work that must be completed for every Product Backlog item before it can be deemed releasable. What should the Development Team do when, during the Sprint, it finds out that a problem outside of their control blocks them from doing all this work?
Immediately raise the issue to the Scrum Master as an impediment.
Complete the work that can be done on as much scope as possible and use the Sprint Review to plan the rest with the stakeholders.
Complete the work that can be done on as much scope as possible and complete the rest during the "hardening" sprints at the end of the release.
Cancel the Sprint.
Stop using Scrum.
What happens during Sprint 0?
Overall planning, base system architecture, base design, version control and continuous integration setup.
Establish base system architecture and design, install version control and continuous integration setup.
Base system architecture and design.
There is no such thing as Sprint 0.
Requirements gathering, version control setup, and continuous integration setup.
The three pillars of empirical process control are?
Respect For People, Kaizen, Eliminating Waste
Planning, Demonstration, Retrospective
Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
Planning, Inspection, Adaptation
Transparency, Eliminating Waste, Kaizen
To deliver a single product, three Development teams are formed. How many Product Owners are needed?
As many as recommended by the Scrum Master
Three
One
The Development Team should not be interrupted during the Sprint. The Sprint Goal should remain intact. These are conditions that foster creativity, quality and productivity. Based on this, which of the following is FALSE?
The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the Development Team.
The Sprint Backlog is fully formulated in the Sprint Planning meeting and does not change during the Sprint.
As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog changes and may grow as the work emerges.
The Development Team may work with the Product Owner to remove oradd work if it finds it has more or less capacity than it expected.
The time-box for a Daily Scrum is?
The same time of day every day.
Two minutes per person.
4 hours.
15 minutes.
15 minutes for a 4 week sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the definition of "done"?
Each Development Team defines and uses its own. The differences are discussed and reconciled during a hardening Sprint.
Each Development Team uses its own but must make their definition clear to all other Teams so the differences are known.
All Development Teams must have a definition of "done" that makes their combined work potentially releasable.
It depends.
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team.
The Scrum team.
The Development Team and Scrum Master.
The Development Team and Product Owner.
The Scrum Master and Product Owner.
What is the role of Management in Scrum?
Continually monitor staffing levels of the Development Team.
Monitor the Development Team's productivity.
Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence, and intelligent release of software.
Identify and remove people that aren't working hard enough.
The CEO asks the Development Team to add a "very important" item to a Sprint that is in progress. What should the Development Team do?
Add the item to the current Sprint without any adjustments.
Add the item to the current Sprint and drop an item of equal size.
Add the item to the next Sprint.
Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
To make sure every team member answers the three questions.
He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.
To write down any changes to the Sprint Backlog, including adding newitems, and tracking progress on the burn-down.
To gather status and progress information to report to management.
The Product Owner's authority to change and update the Product Backlog is unlimited, except for:
Decisions by the CFO, the CEO or the board of directors.
Nothing. The entire organization must respect a Product Owner's decisions.
Decisions by the chief program manager.
Technical and architectural work that needs to be done first, as indicated by the chief enterprise architect.
High impact changes that have not been approved by the change request board.
What is a Product Backlog?
It is a living artifact of product requirements that exists and evolves as long as a product exists.
It is a formally approved list of requirements to be implemented over a set period.
It is a detailed list of functionality from which the Development Team draws items, to be complemented by a separate Technology Backlog managed by the Development Team.
It is a list of references to Use Case documents that are stored in a central repository. The references should be viewable and clickable by anybody to enhance transparency.
What variables should a Product Owner consider when ordering the Product Backlog?
Effort first, then value
Development cohesion as indicated by the Development Team
Lowest development cost in order to maximize ROI
The availability of resources and skills for implementation
Whatever is most appropriate for the Product Owner to achieve the product's goals and to optimize the value received
