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SCRUM
Additional literature post 2 day course
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who has the role to ensure proper collaboration among the Scrum Teams | Chief Scrum Master |
| Coordination across various Scrum Teams working on a project is typically done through... | Scrum of Scrums Meeting |
| Who coordinates the Scrum of Scrums meeting? | Chief Scrum Master |
| Who interfaces with the Program Scrum Master to ensure alignment of the large project with the goals and objectives of the program. | Chief Scrum Master |
| What are four approaches to managing conflict in an organization applying Scrum processes | 1. Win–Win 2. Lose–Win 3. Lose–Lose 4. Win–Lose |
| What type of leadership style are stewards who achieve results by focusing on the needs of the team? | Supporting Leadership |
| What type of leadership style is appropriate in situations where the leader is in tune with specific project details, and when time is limited? | Delegating |
| What type of leaders make decisions on their own, allowing team members little, if any involvement or discussion before a decision is made? | Autocratic |
| What type of leadership style is used when leaders instruct team members which tasks are required, when they should be performed and how they should be performed.? | Directing |
| What type of leadership style often this leads to a state of anarchy? | Laissez Faire |
| What type of leadership style should only be used on rare occassions? | Autocratic |
| What type of leadership style is involved in the majority of decision making; however, they delegate some planning and decision-making responsibilities to team members? | Delegating |
| What type of leadership style is the embodiment of the Scrum Master role? | Supporting Leadership |
| What type of leaders enforce task completion and adherence to deadlines? | Task-oriented |
| What type of leadership style is when the team is left largely unsupervised, so the leader does not interfere with their daily work activities? | Laissez Faire |
| What type of leaders confront issues and display confidence to establish authority with respect? | Assertive |
| What type of leadership style is the preferred style for Scrum projects? | Supporting |
| What type of leadership style is when leaders issue instructions and then monitor team members through listening, assisting, encouraging, and presenting a positive outlook during times of uncertainty? | Coaching |
| A project is a collaborative enterprise to either create new products or services or to deliver results as defined in what? | Project Vision Statement |
| Primary reason for any organization to move forward with a project? | Value |
| One of the key characteristics of any project is? | Uncertainty of results or outcomes |
| Three areas to help ensure you provide value-driven delivery | 1- Understand what adds values to customers 2- Decrease uncertainty and address risks 3- Create deliverables based on priorities |
| What demonstrates the reasons for undertaking a project? | Business justification |
| What drives ALL decision making related to a project? | Business justification |
| When should business justification be assessed? | During: the beginning, at pre-defined intervals, and any time a major issue threatens the project viability. |
| What is a collaborative enterprise to either create new products or services or to deliver results as defined in the Project Vision Statement | Project |
| Three things must be present in a project | Must be temporary, unique and have a result |
| What is the objective of the project team? | Create deliverables as defined in Prioritized Product Backlog |
| What is a characteristic of a deliverable? | Quality |
| Three types of constraints | Time, Cost and quality |
| The ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment | Agility |
| The ability to balance flexibility and stability | Agility |
| T/F- Adaptive project management focuses on less upfront planning than Waterfall methods | True |
| T/F- The Scrum Team determines the areas that well be most value added | False- The customer provides that data |
| Who has the authority to approve a change? | Product Owner- they are the voice of the customer |
| With Agile Manifesto: Individuals and interactions are over: | Processes and Tools |
| With Agile Manifesto: Working software is over | Comprehensive documentation |
| With Agile Manifesto: Customer collaboration is over | Contract Negotiation |
| With Agile Manifesto: Responding to change is over | Following a plan |
| What MUST there be be for a sprint to be a sprint? | Value added |
| Who were the 'Fathers of Scrum'? | Takeuchi and Nonaka |
| Scrum is described as an innovative approach to product development that is calla holistic or__________approach | Rugby |
| T/F- Scrum focuses on processes, waterfall focuses on people | False- Scrum focuses on people |
| Is upfront planning the approach in traditional PM or Scrum? | Traditional |
| Is documentation more intensive in traditional PM or scrum? | Traditional |
| Is customer involvement higher in traditional projects or scrum? | Scrum |
| __________process control and ___________ delivery make projects adaptable and open to incorporating and open to change. | Empirical / iterative |
| Three parts of an emperical process | Transparency, inspections and adaptation |
| Daily stand up meetings last how long? | 15 minutes |
| Three things team members bring up at daily standups | What have I done, what am I planning on doing, what are my roadblocks. |
| Who acts on the roadblocks the team members bring up during daily stand up meetings? | Scrum master |
| Who is the voice of the customer? | Product owner |
| Deliverables are improved progressively sprint by sprint through what? | Refine Prioritized Product Backlog process |
| Ways that transparency is radiated within scrum | Scrumboard, Sprint Burndown chart and Sprint Burnup chart |
| How often is the product backlog refined and prioritized? | On a daily basis |
| Continuous feedback is provided in what ways within scrum process? | Daily standup, Demonstrate and Validate Sprint processes. |
| Continuous improvement is done in what ways within scrum? | Deliverables are improved progressively sprint by sprint, through the refine prioritized backlog process |
| Iterative processes enable the continuous delivery of value through what process? | Ship Deliverables process as frequently as the customer requires. |
| T/F- Scrum processes are designed such a way that teams involved work at a pace that has a definite end date. | False - They are designed so that they can, in theory, continue indefinitely. |
| Two areas of efficient development process that leads to higher efficiency levels | Time-boxing and minimizing non-essential work |
| What member of scrum team is responsible for ensuring time-boxing takes place? | Scrum master |
| What two areas helps with motivations on a scrum project? | Daily stand up meetings and Retrospect Sprint processes |
| What two areas helps with faster problem resolution on a scrum project? | Collaboration and colocation of cross-functional teams. |
| What helps to ensure the highest value requirements of the customer are satisfied first? | Prioritized Product Backlog |
| What two events can help build a high trust environment within the scrum process? | Conduct daily Standups and also the Retrospect Sprint process |
| Of the three parts, Scrum master, product owner, scrum team, who is responsible for ensuring a high trust environment? | Product owner and scrum master |
| What process allows team members to take ownership of the project and their work leading to better quality? | Commit User Stories process |
| What metric measures the amount of work a team can complete during a sprint? | Velocity |
| What processes create an environment of introspection, learning, and adaptability leading to an innovative and creative work environment? | Retrospective Sprint and Retrospective Release processes |
| T/F - Scrum teams are multi-functional teams | False - Scrum teams are self-organized teams which are empowered to take ownership of the project deliverables. The teams should have cross-functional skill sets necessary to deliver the outputs of a Sprint. Scrum does not recommend multi-tasking |
| There are how many scrum principles? | 6 |
| The many scrum aspects are there? | 5 |
| How many scrum processes are there? | 19, divided into 5 phases |
| List the scrum principles | Empirical Process Control Self-Organization Collaboration Value-based Prioritization Time-boxing Iterative Development |
| T/F- Scrum Principles are negotiable | False- Principles are CORE guideline for applying scrum work- there are non-negotiable and MUST be used on all scrum projects |
| List the scrum Aspects | Organization Business Justification Quality Change Risk |
| The scrum cycle begins with what? | Stakeholder meeting |
| When is the Project vision created? | During the stakeholder meeting |
| Who develops the Prioritize Product Backlog? | Product Owner |
| What contains a prioritized list of business and project requirements written in the form of User Stories | Prioritized Product Backlog |
| Each sprint starts with a | Sprint Planning Meeting during which high priority User Stories are considered for inclusion in the Sprint. |
| Each sprint last how long? | 1-4 weeks |
| What does a sprint cycle end with? | a Retrospect Sprint Meeting where the team members discuss ways they can improve the way they work and their performance as they move forward into the subsequent Sprint |
| In regards to Principles, Aspects and Processes within Scrum, what two can be modified? | Aspects and Processes |
| Empirical Process control has three areas (not main ideas) | Input/Process/Output |
| Empirical Process Control relies on three main ideas | Transparency, Inspections, Adaptation |
| Aspects of the scrum process are responsibility of | The Product Owner |
| Quality deliverables must meet the __________________and also must satisfy the _____________________. | acceptance criteria/customer expectations |
| Which emperical control process allows all facets of any Scrum process to be observed by anyone | Transparency |
| What happens as the Scrum Core Team and business stakeholders learn through transparency and inspection | Adaptation |
| What phase of the scrum process does the project vision get created??? | Initiate |
| What phase of the scrum processes are User Stories get created? | Plan and Estimate |
| What phase of the scrum processes are Deliverables created? | Implement |
| What phase of the scrum processes is the Sprint Demonstrated and validated? | Review and Retrospect |
| What phase of the scrum processes includes Ship Deliverables | Release |
| What phase of the scrum processes does the daily standup occur? | Implement |
| What phase of the scrum processes does the Prioritized Product Backlog get created? | Initiate |
| What phase of the scrum processes does the Sprint Backlog get updated? | Plan and Estimate |
| What phase of the scrum processes are tasks identified? | Plan and Estimate |
| What phase of the scrum processes does Release planning occur? | Initiate |
| What phase of the scrum processes do we develop Epic(s) | Initiate |
| The preferred leadership style in Scrum is _________________ which emphasizes achieving results by focusing on the needs of the Scrum Team. | Supporting leadership |
| Daily standup ONLY occurs in what phase? | Implement |
| Create Project Vision occurs in what phase? | Initiate |
| Three parts of the Scrum CORE team? | Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team |
| Who is the voice of the customer? | Product Owner |
| What is the smallest piece of functionality that can be completed during one Sprint? | User Story |
| Who determines at the end of a sprint when the user story is delivered, if it meets acceptance criteria? | Product Owner |
| Who defines and confirms acceptance criteria? | Product Owner |
| Who removes roadblocks and protects the scrum team from distractions and noise? | Scrum Master |
| If manager comes in and wants the team members to make changes during a sprint, who do they refer the manager to? | Scrum master, who needs to convince the manager to move that issue to next sprint. |
| Who creates deliverables? | Scrum Team |
| Who determines if the deliverable meets criteria? | Product Owner |
| Are team members multi functional or cross functional/ | Cross functional |
| T/F- The Epic is worked during a Sprint | False - individual user stories (smaller parts of Epic) are worked during a Sprint |
| What is the foundation of Scrum framework based upon? | Scrum Principles |
| Are scrum principles negotiable? | No, non-negotiable |
| Three main ideas of the Empirical Process Control within Scrum Principles | Transparency, Inspections, Adaptation |
| T/F- Cooperation and collaboration are the same | False |
| One of the most effective tools for delivering the greatest value in the shortest amount of time is | Prioritization |
| Determination of the order and separation of what must be done now, from what needs to be done later is definition of | Prioritization |
| Prioritization is done by the __________________when he or she prioritizes User Stories in the Prioritized Product Backlog | Product Owner |
| Occurs when the work product consists of the sum of the work efforts of various people on a team | Cooperation |
| Occurs when a team works together to play off each other's inputs to produce something greate | Collaboration |
| Three core dimensions of collaborative work: | Awareness, Articulation, Appropriation |
| When there is no silos and everyone is aware of everyone else's work | Awareness |
| Details the teams ability to break down the work into smaller more manageable portions which could be used as stories or tasks | Articulation |
| Within dimensions of collaborative work, this dimension is about the environment you are in- one tool in one environment may not be the right tool in another environment | Appropriation |
| T/F- It is preferred that team members be colocated. | True |
| With the scrum principle of Value Bases Prioritization, what three factors are considered? | Value, Risks, Dependecies |
| Each sprint must be time-boxed, and is how long? | 1-4 weeks |
| What helps ensure Scrum team members do not take up too much or too little work for a particular period? | Time Boxing |
| Daily standup meetings are time-boxed at | 15 minutes |
| Sprint planning Meeting are time-boxed at | 2 hrs per week, or 8 hrs per 4 week period |
| Retrospective Sprint Meetings are time-boxed at | 1 hr per week, or 4 hrs for a 4 week period |
| Sprint Review Meetings are time-boxed at | 1 hr per week, or 4 hrs for a 4 week period |
| A scrum team should consist of a maximum of ______ people | 12 (1 PO, 1 SM, 10 team members) |
| When the entire team gets together and gets rid of stories not needed anymore, create new ones, etc | Event back log grooming, or backlog refinement |
| Within management theories X and Y, which believes that people need to be monitored at all times? | Theory X |
| Within management theories X and Y, which believes that people are generally good and are self motivated? | Theory Y |
| The management theory that most companies are now adopting, that focuses on work/life balances is | Theory Z |
| A scrum development team consists of how many members | 6-10 |
| Should the business stake holders be identified late or early in the project? | Early |
| Three examples of non-core scrum roles are: | Business stakeholders, Supporting Services, and Scrum Guidance body |
| Within the scrum aspect of business justification, what is the primary reason an organization would move fwd with a project? | Value |
| T/F- Business justification is continuously justified throughout the lifecycle of a project | True |
| What three steps capture how a business justification is determined? | Assess and present a business case, continuous value justification, confirm benefits realization |
| Two main points in regards to quality and how it relates to the project | Must meet acceptance criteria, must meet customers satisfaction |
| When is the Prioritized Product Backlog complete? | With the closure or termination of the project. |
| Scrum development projects are designed to ___________change | Embrace |
| Approved changes get added to | The prioritized product backlog |
| What two areas are considered with you prioritize risks? | Probability and Impact |
| Are risks defined as certainties or uncertainties? | Uncertainties |
| Difference between risks and issues? | Risks are uncertainties and issues are identified as clear, factual. |
| Positive impacts of risks are also called | Opportunities |
| Negative impacts of risks are also called | Threats |
| EPICs are broken into smaller pieces called | User Stories |
| User stories may be broken into smaller pieces called | Tasks |
| User stories must be developed into what format? | Who/What/Why |
| What are are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other business stakeholders who may not directly use the end product | Personas |
| MoSCoW scheme stands for: | Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't have |
| When creating a prioritized product backlog, the critical tool of a user story prioritization method when you decide the importance of one item over the other is | Paired Comparision |
| When creating a prioritized product backlog, the critical tool of a user story prioritization method when each stake holder assigns points to each user story | 100 point method |
| When creating a prioritized product backlog, the critical tool of a user story prioritization method when it deals with emotions? | Kano Analysis |
| Any prioritization discussion that involves emotions would be what type of analysis? | Kano Analysis |
| An agreed upon set of items that must be completed before a project or user story can be considered complete is called | Done Criteria |
| T/F- Done criteria is a set of rules that is applicable to ALL user stories | True |
| A clear definition of _________ is critical, because it removes ambiguity from requirements and helps the team adhere to mandatory quality norms | Done criteria |
| User stories are small enough to be completed in how many sprints? | One |
| The definition of ________ defines the criteria that a User Story must satisfy before being considered for estimation and inclusion into a Sprint | Ready |
| What is used for providing product increments to the business stakeholders? | Release Planning Schedule |
| The_______________ states which deliverables are to be released to the customers, along with planned intervals, and dates for release | Release Planning Schedule |
| The length of a sprint is determined during: | Creating the Release Planning Schedule |
| User stories are created during what phase | Plan and estimate |
| Although everyone on team should be involved in writing user stories, who has primary responsibility? | Product Owner |
| Sprints do not have Epics, they have | User Stories |
| Recommended method for estimating time for user stories is | Fibonacci sequence |
| Fibonacci sequence is sum of ____________ | two preceding numbers (1+1=2) (2+1=3) (3+2=5) (5+3=8) etc |
| a measurement of how much a team can produce during one normal sprint cycle | Sprint velocity |
| Most common method of estimating points for user stories is | Planning Poker |
| Each team member is assigned how many points for 1 week of sprint | 4 |
| The most important factor in determining the amount of work the team can commit to in a subsequent Sprint | The previous sprint velocity |
| SPrint planning meetings should be time-boxed at | 2 hrs per week of sprint duration |
| What is the difference between the Burn down chart and Burn up chart? | Burn down shows what work REMAINS, while Burn up shows what work has been COMPLETED |
| What three things does a scrum board show? | To Do, In Progress, and Done |
| Committed user stories should be selected per the priorities set by the | Product Owner |
| Daily stand up meetings occur during what phase | Implement |
| We perform backlog refinement during | Daily standup |
| Business stakeholders provide requirements, but who actually creates the deliverables? | The development team |
| One possible exception to never having changes to a sprint: | SCRUM team asks PO to bring more stories into current sprint. if easier task than expected, get additional user stories. SM needs to ensure points of user story align with remaining number of days so they don’t have work left at end of sprint. |
| Who needs to ensure they stay aware of impediment log and address them? | Scrum master |
| Who owns the burndown chart? | product Owner |
| Scrum Phase Review and Retrospect is time boxed at | 1 hr for every week of sprint |
| Whose input is NOT required at the retrospect sprint? | Product owner |
| Three areas that must be identified during the retrospect sprint: | Things the team need to KEEP doing, BEGIN doing, STOP doing |
| The last phase, Release, is time boxed at what time? | It is NOT time boxed...only meeting that is NOT |
| Can you deploy a project without releasing? | Yes, for example, a software is deployed, but not released to user yet |
| The last process, Retrospect Release, purpose or aim is to | to identify best practices, actionable improvements and recommendations for the Scrum Guidance Body |
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