Scrum Aspects Flashcards

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What are the 5 Aspects of Scrum

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  • Organization
  • Business Justification
  • Quality
  • Change
  • Risk
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What are the 2 Categories of Scrum Roles?

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  • Core Roles
  • Non-Core Roles
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What are Core Roles?

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  • Roles involved in producing projects, products or services
  • People assigned Core Roles are fully committed to the Aspect
  • They’re Responsible for the success of each project iteration & project as a whole
  • They’re assigned to Product Owners, Scrum Masters & Scrum Teams
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What is a Product Owner Responsible for?

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  • Acheiving max business value for projects
  • Articulate customer requirements
  • Maintaining business justification for a project
  • Represents customer’s voice
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What is Business Justification?

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A Scrum Aspect vital for an organization to perform business assessments before the start of a project.

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What are the Factors of Business Justification?

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  • Helps the key decision makers understand business needs for a change, product or service
  • Value-Driven Delivery
  • Uncertainty of results or outcomes
  • Impossible to gurantee project’s success & completion
  • Scrum attempts to start delivering results as early in the project as possible
  • Provides opportunity for reinvestment
  • Allows project’s objectives to process to change in case of business justification changes
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What is Quality?

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A Scrum Aspect that is the ability of the completed product or deliverables to meet the Acceptance Criteria & achieve the business value expected by the customer.

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What are Factors for Continuous Improvement in Scrum?

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  • The team learns from experience & Stakeholder engagement to constantly keep the prioritized Product Backlog
  • Prioritized Product Backlog is never complete until closure or termination of projects
  • Changes to requirements reflect changes in the internal & external business environment allows the team to work & adapt to acheive those requirements
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What are the Factors of Quality?

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  • Repetive testing requires work to be done in an incremental fashion through Sprints
  • Errors are fixed right away
  • Quality-related tasks are completed in the same Sprint
  • Ensures quality is in any deliverable created as part of a Sprint
  • Continuous Improvement with repetitive testing optimizes the probability of achieving expected quality levels
  • Constant discussions between Scrum Core Team & Stakeholders including customers and users
  • Ensures gaps between customers expectations from the project & actual deliverables produced is constantly reduced
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What is Change?

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A Scrum Aspect that every project, regardless of its method or framework that is used, is exposed to change.

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What are Factors of Change?

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Organizations should try to maximize benefits that arise from change & minimize Negative Impacts in accordance to Scrum Principles.

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What does Scrum Acknowledge?

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  • Stakeholders may change their mind about what they want during the course of the project - Requirements Churn.
  • Not always feasible for Stakeholders to define requirements during project initiation
  • Scrum welcomes change by using short iterative Sprints
  • It enables customers to interact with Scrum Team Members & view Deliverables as they are ready & even to change requirements if needed
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What is Risk?

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A Scrum Aspect that an uncertain event or set of events that can affect the objectives of a project & may contribute to its success or failure.

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What is Positive Impact Risk?

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Opportunity Risks

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What is Negative Impact Risk?

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Threats

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Examples of Risk management

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  • A key investor backs off a project at a prime moment. The risk is affecting the project negatively
  • Unless the project finds better investors willing to invest in a bigger & better way, it is an opportunity risk.
  • Managing risk must be done proactively
  • It is an iterative process that should begin at project initiation & continue throughout the project’s life cycle.
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Standardized Risks should be what?

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  • Identified
  • Evaluated
  • Proper course of action is determined upon & acted upon
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What are the 2 Standardized Risk Factors?

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  • Probability of each risk’s occurence
  • Possible impact in the event of such occurences
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What are the Possible Impact Factors?

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  • Risks with a High Probability & Impact Value are determined by multiplying both factors.
  • Once a risk is identified, it is important to understand the risk in regard to the probable causes & potential effects if the risk occurs.