PSM1 Study Guide Flashcards
What is the time-box for a Daily Scrum?
15 minutes.
What is Scrum
A framework within which complex products in complex environments are developed.
What are the three pillars of empirical process control?
Inspection, Transparency, Adaptation
What is the Product Owner’s responsibility?
Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team does.
Scrum does not have a role called “project manager”
True
When might a Sprint be abnormally terminated?
When the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete.
Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
What is the Sprint Review?
It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a Sprint and figure out what to do next.
When do Development Team members become the exclusive owner of a Sprint Backlog item?
Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are “owned” by the entire Development Team, even though each one may be done by an individual development team member.
How much work must a Development Team do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?
As much as it has told the Product Owner will be done for every Product Backlog item it selects in conformance with the definition of done.
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
He or she does not have to be there; he or she only has to ensure the Development Team has a Daily Scrum.
Who should know the most about the progress toward a business objective or a release, and be able to explain the alternatives most clearly?
The Product Owner
During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master’s role is to:
Teach the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15 minute time-box.
The Development Team should have all the skills needed to:
Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially releasable product functionality.
When does the next Sprint begin?
Immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
When is a Sprint over?
When the time-box expires.
It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
False
During a Sprint, a Development Team determines that it will not be able to finish the complete forecast. Who should be present to review and adjust the Sprint work selected?
The Product Owner and the Development Team.
What is the role of Management in Scrum?
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.
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?
Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.
Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
The consistency reduces complexity.
The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.
True
Who is on the Scrum Team?
The Scrum Master
The Product Owner
The Development Team
What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
By facilitating Development Team decisions
By removing impediments that hinder the Development Team
The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is?
8 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
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 TRUE?
A) The Product Owner can help clarify or optimize the Sprint when asked by the Development Team.
B) As a decomposition of the selected Product Backlog Items, the Sprint Backlog changes and may grow as the work emerges.
C) The Development Team may work with the Product Owner to remove or add work if it finds it has more or less capacity than it expected.
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team.
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
The Development Team.
An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change the terminology to fit with terminology already used. What will likely happen if this is done?
A) Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of the change, very little change may actually happen.
B) The organization may not understand what has changed with Scrum and the benefits of Scrum may be lost.
C) Management may feel less anxious.
What is the recommended size for a Development Team (within the Scrum Team)?
3 to 9
When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
False
The length of a Sprint should be:
A) Not so long that the risk is unacceptable to the Product Owner.
B) Not so long that other business events can’t be readily synchronized with the development work.
C) No more than one calendar month.
*D) All of these answers are correct.
When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the definition of “done?”
All Development Teams must have a definition of “done” that makes their combined work potentially releasable.
The Product Backlog is ordered by:
Whatever is deemed most appropriate by the Product Owner.
Which two (2) things does the Development Team do during the first Sprint?
Deliver an increment of releasable software.
Develop and deliver at least one piece of functionality.
When should Development Team membership change?
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
The Development Team
Upon what type of process control is Scrum based?
Empirical
The Development Team should have all the skills needed to?
Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially releasable product
The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is:
4 hours for a monthly Sprint. For shorter Sprints it is usually shorter.
Which are roles on a Scrum Team?
Development Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
How frequently scrum users should inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal?
Frequently, but it should not get in the way of the work
What are the formal Scrum events for inspection and adaptation?
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of “Done”?
The Development Team
What happens when a Sprint is cancelled?
If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it
Any completed and “Done” Product Backlog items are reviewed
All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog
What does Burn-Down Chart show?
How much work remains till the end of the Sprint
During each Sprint Retrospective the Scrum Team reviews the Definition of Done and changes it if necessary.
True
What are the two essential features a Scrum Team should possess?
It should choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team
It should have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team
What provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment?
The Sprint Goal
What happens during the Sprint?
No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal
Quality goals do not decrease
Scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned.
Could the Sprint Planning be finished if only work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed to units of one day or less?
Yes, if the remaining work is also estimated, maybe in bigger units
Could the Product Owner and the Scrum Master be a part of the Development Team?
True – if they are executing the work of the Sprint Backlog
What is the result of the Sprint Review?
A revised Product Backlog that defines the probable Product Backlog items for the next Sprint
What is the increment?
The sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints
If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits when an adjustment must be made?
As soon as possible to minimize further deviation
Who is responsible for the monitoring of the remaining work towards the Project Goal?
Product Owner
What does Cone of Uncertainty show?
How much is known about the Product over time
What are the questions the Sprint Planning answers?
What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?
How does the Scum Master serve the Organization? Select the three most appropriate answers.
Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption
Planning Scrum implementations within the organization.
What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner?
Product Marketplace Expert
Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder Involvement
Product Value Maximizer
How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner? Select the three most appropriate answers
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
Understanding product planning in an empirical environment.
All the Scrum Teams working on the same product should have the same Sprint length.
False
Who is responsible for coping with incomplete artifact transparency?
The Scrum Master
What part of the capacity of the Development Team does the Product Backlog refinement usually consume?
Not more than 10%
What are the Scrum Artifacts?
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Increment
What comprises Scrum?
Scrum Teams Events Roles Rules Artifacts
What is the Sprint Backlog?
What is the Sprint Backlog?
What should be taken into account for the Definition of “Done”? Select the two most appropriate items.
Definition of “Done” of other Scrum Teams working on the same Product
Conventions, standards and guidelines of the Organization
Imagine you are a Scrum Master. There are 10 professionals (developers and QAs) and the Product Owner. How to distribute people between development teams? Choose all applicable variants:
3 teams of 4, 3 and 3 people (each team is cross-functional)
2 teams of 6 and 4 people (the professionals after a short meeting decided this is the best variant)
Who is allowed to make changes in the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner.
The Development Team, but with permission of the Product Owner.
How does Definition of “Done” help to the Scrum Team? Select the three most applicable items.
Guides the Development Team in knowing how many Product Backlog items it can select during a Sprint Planning .
DoD ensures artifact transparency
DoD is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment
What are the three main qualities the team model in Scrum is designed to optimize?
Flexibility
Productivity
Creativity
What is Sprint 0?
there is no Sprint 0
Self organizing team
promotes flexibility, creativity, and productivity
Trend Line
The Ideal Trend line indicates an ideal situation in which the team burns down all of the effort that remains at a constant rate by the end of the sprint.
What is Technical Debt?
Technical debt is a concept in programming that reflects the extra development work that arises when code that is easy to implement in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution. Technical debt is commonly associated with extreme programming, especially in the context of refactoring.
Burndown Charts
Represent work remaining
Burnup Charts
Represent work completed
Scrum Master is a “management” position?
True
The Scrum Master manages the Scrum process. If the Scrum Master is not a management position, he
or she may not have the influence to remove impediments. The Scrum Master does not manage the
team.
An optimal Development Team has at least 5 members:
This is not required in Scrum.
There is no specification in Scrum that an optimal Development Team is made up of at least 5
members.
Upon what type of process control is Scrum based?
Empirical
When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the
definition of “done?”
All Development Teams must have a definition of “done” that makes their combined
work potentially releasable.
Which two (2) things does the Development Team not do during the first Sprint?
Nail down the complete architecture and infrastructure.
Develop a plan for the rest of the project.
What does it mean to say that an event has a timebox?
The event can take no more than a maximum amount of time.
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?
The Development Team.
Who is responsible for registering the work estimates during a Sprint?
The Development Team.
When multiple teams are working together, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
False
What is the maximum length of a Sprint?
Not so long that the risk is unacceptable to the Product Owner.
Not so long that other business events can’t be readily synchronized with the development work.
No more than one calendar month.
Development Team members volunteer to own a Sprint Backlog item:
Never. All Sprint Backlog Items are “owned” by the entire Development Team, even though each
one may be done by an individual development team member.
Development Team membership should change:
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity
An abnormal termination of a Sprint is called when?
A) When it is clear at the end of a Sprint that everything won’t be finished.
B) When the Team feels that the work is too hard.
C) When Sales has an important opportunity.
*D) When the Product Owner determines that it makes no sense to finish it
Scrum is:
Lightweight
Simple to understand
Difficult to master
Scrum Values
Commitment Courage Focus Openness Respect
