Scrum Flashcards
These flashcards are created from the Scrum Guide(Nov 2020 Edition): https://www.scrumguides.org/download.html The Scrum Guide is the definitive description of the primary form of agile used today.
Who orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog?
The Product Owner
Who turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint?
The Scrum Team
Who inspects the results and adjust for the next Sprint.
The Scrum Team and its stakeholders
What is knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed?
Empirirical knowledge, knowledge based on measures
What reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.
Lean Thinking
How Does Scrum optimize predictability and to control risk
By employing an iterative, incremental approach.
What is Scrum’s containing Event?
The Sprint ‘contains’ four formal events for inspection and adaptation: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
What are the five Scrum Events
The Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
What are the 3 Empirical Scrum Pillars
transparency, inspection, and adaptation
When is Inspection Misleading and Wasteful
When there is no (or little) Transparency
Which Empirical Scrum Pillar requires that emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work.
Transparency
Which Scrum Empirical Pillar allows important decisions to be made based on the perceived state of Scrum’s three formal artifacts
Transparency makes the Product Backlog, the Sprint Backolo and the Increment’s Percived States Useful to decision making
Which Empirical Scrum Pillar allows us to progress toward agreed goals whilst frequently and diligently detecting potentially undesirable variances or problems
Inspection
Which of the Empirical Scrum Pillars is supported by the cadence of its five events. Scrum events are designed to provoke change. This Empirical Scrum Pillar enables adaptation, and truly without adaptation is considered pointless.
To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events. Inspection enables adaptation. Inspection without adaptation is considered pointless. Scrum events are designed to provoke change.
Which of the Scrum Empirical Pillars addresses the situation if any aspects of a process deviates outside acceptable limits or if the resulting product is unacceptable. This Scrum Empirical Pillar reinforces that the process being applied or the materials being produced must be adjusted. The adjustment must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.
Adaptation
What happens to the Emprical Scrum Pillar of Adaptation if teams are not empowered or self-managing
(1) Adaptation becomes more difficult when the people involved are not empowered or self-managing. A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection.
What are the 5 Scrum Values
- Commitment,
- Focus,
- Openness,
- Respect,
- and Courage
As part of Values what are two of the the Scrum Team’s Comitments?
The Scrum Team (1) commits to achieving its goals and (2) to supporting each other. Their primary focus is on the work of the Sprint to make the best possible progress toward these goals.
As part of Scrum Values what is the Primary Focus of the Scrum Team?
Their primary focus is on the work of the Sprint to make the best possible progress toward these goals.
Who embraces the Scrum Value of Openness
The (1) Scrum Team and its (2) stakeholders are open about the work and the challenges.
Teams embracing the Scrum Value of Respect acknowledge each others?
Scrum Team members respect each other to be (1) capable, (2) independent people, and are respected as such by the people with whom they work.
- Capability and
- Independance
Scrum Teams embracing the Scrum Value of Courage do these two things
The Scrum Team members have the courage to do the right thing, to work on tough problems.
- Do the right thing
- Focus on tough Problems
What three things are directed or informed by the Scrum Values
These values give direction to the Scrum Team with regard to their work, actions, and behavior.
- Work
- Actions
- Behavior
How do Scrum Teams learn and explore the Scrum Values ?
The Scrum Team members learn and explore the values as they work with the Scrum events and artifacts. When these values are embodied by the Scrum Team and the people they work with, the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life building trust.
- By working with the Scrum Events and Artifacts
When the Scrum Values are embodied by the Scrum Team and the people they work with which part of Scrum is improved and comes to life?
The Scrum Team members learn and explore the values as they work with the Scrum events and artifacts. When these values are embodied by the Scrum Team and the people they work with, the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life building trust.
- Empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation
What is the fundamental Unit (team) in Scrum
The fundamental unit of Scrum is a small team of people, a Scrum Team. The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. Within a Scrum Team, there are no sub-teams or hierarchies.
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Developers
What is the one objective of the Scrum Team?
It is a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal.
What does Cross-Functional mean?
Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value each Sprint
What are 4 things a self-managing Scrum team deciseds?
They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.
- Who
- What
- When
- How
How big is a Scrum Team?
The Scrum Team is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint, typically 10 or fewer people. In general, we have found that smaller teams communicate better and are more productive
A too large Scrum Team splits into cohesive Scrum Teams focused on the same product. Split out Scrum Teams should share these three things?
If Scrum Teams become too large, they should consider reorganizing into multiple cohesive Scrum Teams, each focused on the same product. Therefore, they should share the same Product Goal, Product Backlog, and Product Owner.
- Product Goal
- Product Backlog
- Product Owner
Who is is responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, verification, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required?
The Scrum Team
Who structures and empowered the Scrum Team to manage their own work.
The Orginization
Why is it important for Scrum Teams to work in Sprints at a sustainable pace?
To improve the Scrum Team’s focus and consistency.
- Focus
- Consistancy
What are the three Acountabilities defined by Scrum?
Scrum defines three specific accountabilities within the Scrum Team: the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master.
- Developer
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
Who is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.
The entire Scrum Team
What are the four Developer Accountabilities?
● Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog;
● Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done;
● Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal; and,
● Holding each other accountable as professionals.
- Plan Sprint
- Quality adherence Definition of Done
- Daily Adaptation
- Mutual Accountability
Who is committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint?
Developers
Who is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team? How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.
Who is accountable for effective Product Backlog management?
The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management.
What are the 4 accountabilities of the Product Owner regarding Product Backlog Management
The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:
- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;
- Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
- Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
- Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable.
Product Owner sucess depends on?
For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions.
What are two ways the Product Owner’s decisions are transparent and inspectable?
These decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, and through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review.
- Product Backlog
- Increment
Who decides the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. Those wanting to change the Product Backlog can do so by trying to convince the Product Owner.