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CSM Flashcards

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Three Pillars of Scrum Theory

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Transparency, inspection, and adaption

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Four types of Scrum events

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Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective

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5 scrum values

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commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect

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Scrum teams are _____ and _____

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self-organizing and cross functional

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Scrum teams deliver products _____ and _____. Why?

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iteratively and incrementally. Maximizes opportunities for feedback. Incremental deliveries of “Done” product ensure a useful version of a working product is always available.

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Sole person responsible for managing Product backlog

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Product Owner

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Who is responsible for optimizing the value of the work the Dev Team performs

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Product Owner

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Who delivers a potentially releasable increment of “Done” product at the end of each Sprint?

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Development team

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Who tells the DEV team how to turn product backlog into increments of potentially releasable functionality?

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NO ONE. They are self organizing.

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What are the titles / teams and sub-teams for the Development Team

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NONE . accountability belongs to team as a whole

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Optimal development team size

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3-9

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Scrum master main responsibilities

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promoting and supporting SCRUM theory, practices, rules, and values

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Who removes impediments to Dev team progress

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Scrum master

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How long is a sprint? When Does a new Sprint start?

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Max of 1 month where a DONE usable and potentially releasable product increment is created. Starts immediately after the previous sprint. Consistent duration throughout development efforts.

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What does the Sprint consist of?

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Sprint planning, Daily Scrums, Development work, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

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What is the only thing that be changed during a sprint

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Scope can be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Dev team as more info is learned.

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Can a Sprint be cancelled?

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Uncommon:
Only the Product owner can cancel a sprint (possibly under influence of stakeholders/dev team/ Scrum master).
Why? Sprint goal is obsolete
Then What? PO usually accepts partial work. Incomplete backlog items are re-estimated and put back on the product backlog

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Sprint planning. What is it and length.

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Planning the work to be performed in the sprint involving the entire Scrum Team.
1-2 hours per week of the sprint schedule. No more than 8 hours for a month sprint.

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Sprint planning answers:

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What can be delivered in the increment resulting from the upcoming sprint
How will the work needed to deliver the increment be achieved.

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The number of items selected from the product backlog for the sprint is up to

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the Development team only. They are the only ones that can assess what they can accomplish over the upcoming sprint.

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What is a Sprint Goal

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an objective that will be met within the Sprint through the implementation of the product backlog. Provides guidance to the Dev team on WHY it is building the increment.

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Product backlog items selected fro sprint plus plans for delivering them is called

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The Sprint Backlog

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How far out does the Development team plan in the first days of a sprint

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units of one day or less.

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Who structures the Daily Scrum.

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Dev Team but the Scrum master teaches them to keep it to 15 minutes

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How long is a Sprint Review. What does it cover

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at most 4 hours long for one-month sprints
What is done or not done
What went well/problems
Result is a revised product backlog that defines the probable product backlog items for next sprint

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Sprint retrospective. What and how long

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opportunity for Scrum Team to inspect itself and plan for improvements to next sprint. After Sprint review and prior to next Sprint Planning. At most 3 hours for 1 month sprint.

27
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Scrum Artifacts

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represent work or value to provide opportunities for inspection and adaptation. Artifacts are Designed by SCRUM to maximize transparency of information so everyone has same understanding of artifact.

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Attributes of a Product bakklog

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description, order, estimate, and value

29
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because requirements never stop changing, a product backlog is known as

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a living artifact

30
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product backlog refinement

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adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the backlog

31
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product backlog items that can be done by the dev team within the sprint are deemed

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ready for selection in a sprint planning

32
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who is responsible for estimates in the product backlog

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dev team but the product owner may influence dev team by helping it understand tradeoffs

33
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Ordered list of everything known to be needed in the product

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product backlog

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attributes of product backlog

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description, order, estimate, and value

35
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the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the
Product Backlog.

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Product Backlog refinement

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When can backlog items be updated

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at any time by the product owner

37
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set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for
delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal

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The Sprint Backlog

38
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Who changes the sprint backlog during a sprint and who does it belong to

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Dev team

39
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The Increment

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sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint and the
value of the increments of all previous Sprints.must be in
useable condition regardless of whether the Product Owner decides to release it.

40
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The most powerful capability of Scrum Teams is that they ar

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self organizing and empowered

41
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An organization adopts Agile practices and implements incremental delivery strategy, if implemented correctly the company should see improved

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– Project ROI by increasing individual features to market

42
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Which of the following is the best description of velocity

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Velocity is measured rate at which team turns product backlog items into running tested features

43
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Who is responsible for determining the value of each feature?

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Product Owner

44
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In Scrum each sprint produces

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An increment of potentially shippable functionality

45
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  1. What is the primary purpose of the sprint review –
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To show the incremental delivery of features

46
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  1. Which of the following is most likely to assist when a customer has difficulty prioritizing stories
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Split the stories so the customer can choose the pieces they want

47
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  1. Who is responsible for the definition of done?
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Team

48
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  1. Which of the following best describes story points
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Relative size of a user story

49
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  1. According to the Pareto rule, when prioritizing the backlog
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A small % of work will provide a large amount of value

50
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  1. What is used to provide basic information on stories, high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance tests
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User story card, on a storyboard or wallboard

51
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  1. A development team has completed their tasks that they are responsible for the next sprint, which of the following tools shows the highest transparency of progress during a sprint
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Burndown chart

52
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  1. During the daily standup the team goes into problem-solving discussion. How should ScrumMaster respond
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Table discussion until daily standup is over

53
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  1. What is a driving force behind Agile methodology
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time to market

54
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  1. What type of story is used when a story has lacking of technological knowledge
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spike

55
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  1. The best description of the daily
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Raise the visibility of peoples work and ensure work is integrated and aligned

56
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  1. Which of the following drivers is the most important factor in developing the order in which features should be developed?
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customer value

57
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  1. Which of the following techniques provide osmotic communication
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Team members working together co-located

58
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  1. Refactoring is
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changing code without changing external behavior

59
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  1. Which of the following best represents Agile philosophy
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Continuous delivery

60
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  1. Burndown chart, wallboards, and storyboards are communicated using
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Information radiators

61
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  1. Common estimation unit for Agile is
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Story points

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