Scrum

Question 1

What is the most important aspect of Scrum?

Answer 1

Time (schedule-oriented)

-Fixed schedule with adjustable scope

Question 2

What is success at Scrum?

Answer 2

Customer satisfaction = Success = Quality = Features delivered

Question 3

Why is Scrum a Lightweight Process Framework?

Answer 3

A process framework is a standard that must be followed consistently and lightweight means that the process is kept as small as possible to maximize the amount of productive time available.

Question 4

What is the planning logic of Scrum?

Answer 4

Planning and estimative the period of time that is closer to us is easier and simpler that the farther.

Question 5

Type of projects Scrum is optimized for

Answer 5

Needs change quickly (fluid scope)
Plenty of implementation can be done quickly
Success measured by customer satisfaction with
-responsiveness (burn-down priorities)
-turnaround time (feature delivery)

Question 6

Benefits for Project Managers of Scrum

Answer 6

Planning and tracking are easier and more concrete

• Distribute the responsibility of planning
• Awareness about the state of the project to address issues quickly

Less experience is needed

Question 7

What are the meetings of Scrum?

Answer 7

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Question 8

What are the roles of Scrum?

Answer 8

Scrum Master

Product Owner

Development Team

Question 9

Scrum concepts

Answer 9

Story

• Identify the functions needed
• Products requirements

Sprints
-Time period to identify the activities, without thinking too much on the effort needed

Self-organization

• Few people, easily organize
• No task delegation
• Rely on people, not process

Shipped!
-Deliver only stories that are completed

Question 10

What are Scrum Stories?

Answer 10

Product requirements in a short narrative description

-Common format

Question 11

What are the Scrum Stories types?

Answer 11

User Story

• User-facing functional requirement
• Product Owner responsibility
• Small business cases, specific, very small detail

Technical Story

• Functionalities supporting the user-facing features in User Stories
• Development team responsibility

Defect

• Bug report
• Product Owner monitor

Question 12

What is a Sprint in Scrum?

Answer 12

Fixed period of time, cycle
2-4 weeks
Small teams (3-7)
-If needed, break into more teams with 1 SM and 1 PO

Scope of the sprint is fixed, once started, no change requests allowed!

Question 13

What is the Scrum Master role?

Answer 13

Ensure the process run smoothly

Remove obstacles that impact productivity

Teach and give info for the PO

Question 14

What is the Product Owner role?

Answer 14

Represents the customer

Link between team and client

Responsible for Stories and priorities

Question 15

Planning on Scrum

Answer 15

Plan based on the value to the project per sprint

Question 16

Scrum Stages

Answer 16

Vision
Product Roadmap
Release Planning
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective

Question 17

What is the Vision Stage in Scrum and its steps?

Answer 17

Most important phase
Understand the why/reason behind a project and link with organization’s strategy

Develop product objective
Create and validade vision statement
-From understanding customer and client needs
-Align everyone, even small teams can have different interpretations in mind

Question 18

What is a Vision Statement? Templates?

Answer 18

Communicate exact information related to the project
-It can be done to every MVP inside the project

Elevator Statement
Product Envision Box

Question 19

How to create a Product Roadmap?

Answer 19

Identify product requirements

• Themes
• Features
• Epic User Stories
• User Stories
• Tasks

Organize in logical groups

Estimate effort and priority level

• Effort is difficulty, not hours
• Priority, how beneficial for the product
• Many methods, matter of preference

Envision high-level time frames

Question 20

How to estimate effort and priority level?

Answer 20

Use Fibonacci sequence for effort and value
-Priority = Value / Effort

Use any scale, e.g., shirt size

Use a scale for effort and another for priority

Use MS.CoW for priority
-Must, Should, Could, Won’t

Question 21

What characterizes a release?

Answer 21

Minimal marketable features for your customer

Question 22

Sprint Planning Meeting goal

Answer 22

Select the user stories to be developed in this sprint
Breakdown into tasks
Self-organize tasks

First sprint is an experiment to be able to understand if what was planned makes sense or not and what to do about it

Question 23

Daily Scrum questions

Answer 23

Yesterday I completed
Today I’m going to take on
My impediments are

Active listening to others

30s for each question

Question 24

Goal of Sprint Review

Answer 24

Check if and show WHAT was planned was done

1h / sprint week

Question 25

Goal of Sprint Retrospective

Answer 25

Check the HOW

What went well?
What would we like to change?
How can we implement that change?