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Scrum Framework Flashcards

Definitions and history, scrum pillars and values, the framework, the teams and key scrum events, and

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Define Scrum

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SCRUM is a framework within which people can address complex ADAPTIVE problems, which productively and CREATIVELY delivering products of the HIGHEST POSSIBLE VALUE.

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In 1986, these authors released scrum framework in “The New New Product Development Game”.

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Hirotaka TAKUCHI and Ikujiro NONAKA

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In “The New New Product Development Game”, what did the authors define as being important?

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For the best results, new products can be developed in a new way through small cross-functional teams, similar to a scrum in rugby where a team of specialized individuals supports each other.

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Scrum was more formally introduced by DeGrace and Stahl in which book?

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Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions.

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Who are the two people regarded as the creators of Scrum in the 1990s?

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Ken SCHWABER and Jeff SUTHERLAND

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What year did the Agile Manifesto get released?

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2001

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What are the three pillars of empiricism (i.e., philosophy) in the scrum framework?

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(TIA) Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.

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What are the three components of the Scrum Framework?

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(ARE) Artifacts, Roles and Events

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What are the five scrum values?

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(CORFC) Courage, Openess, Respect, Focus, and Commitment

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What are the three Scrum artifacts (e.g., objects)?

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Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment

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Define the Product Backlog

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A prioritized list of items (e.g., features, fixes, Enhancements and Non-functional Requirements) that together form the Product roadmaps, documenting how it will evolve, the outlined budget and that the product aligns with expectations.

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Define Sprint

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An iteration that contains all sprint activity in a container or timebox.

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Define Timebox

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A period of time that shouldn’t be exceeded.

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Define Sprint Backlog

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A set of items or tasks that will be worked on in a sprint that is derived from the product backlog items. All the items in the sprint backlog contains all the work that will help build a product increment.

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what is the sum of all completed product backlog items during the current sprint including the reviewed and realized value of all the increments in previous sprints?

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The product increment

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What are the three main scrum roles?

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Product Owner, Development team, and Scrum Master.

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Whose role is it to manage the product backlog and represent all stakeholders of the project?

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The Product Owner

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Who is responsible for managing the Sprint backlog in order to achieve the Sprint Goal and has the skills to build and deliver the product increments?

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The cross-functional, self-organizing Development team.

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Who is responsible for implementing the scrum framework and removing impediments to the team’s performance?

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The Scrum Master

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What are the four scrum events?

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Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective.

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What are the two parts of sprint planning?

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The Product Backlog (What will be built and why items are prioritized) (1 hour per week of sprint up to 4 hours)
The Sprint Backlog - the details and estimates and how things will be built. (1 hour per week of spring up to 4 hours)

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What happens in a daily scrum?

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Synchronizing of sprint work and progress and the identification of sprint impediments. (

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Define Sprint Review. How long should this take?

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A product-centric ceremony occurring at the end of each sprint that involves evaluating and improving the product as well as validating the status of the original sprint goal. This should take one hour per week of sprint up to a maximum of four hours.

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Define Sprint Retrospective. How long should this take?

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A process-centric ceremony occurring after the sprint review and before the next sprint planning event that allows the team to identify best practices and areas of improvement. (45 minutes for every week of sprint up to 3 hours).

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What is product backlog grooming?

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A collaborative process between the product owner and team to refine the product backlog to add details, estimates and order to items in the backlog. This is an unofficial event.

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Define Sprint

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An iteration that contains all scrum activity that is timeboxed from one to four weeks (max 30 calendar days) and has all four scrum events.

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Who is responsible for collecting requirements and forming the product backlog?

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Product Owner

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Who creates and updates the product backlog?

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Product Owner

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Who is responsible for prioritizing work?

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Product Owner

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Who communicates the product vision and product backlog to the team?

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Product Owner

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Who works with the team to declare the official sprint goal

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Product Owner

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Who is responsible for dealing with all stakeholders, customers and the steering committee

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Product Owner

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Who has the skills to deliver the product increment of a sprint?

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Product Team

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Who is accountable for achieving the sprint goal and sharing the workload?

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Product Team

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Who are the self-organizing and self-managing members of the team?

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Product Team

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What is the optimal size of a product team?

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7 +/- 2 team members (between 5 - 9 members)

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Who create and maintains the sprint backlog?

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The product team

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Who tracks the sprint effort?

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Product Team

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Who are the main participants in the daily scrum?

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Product Team

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Who prepares for the Sprint Review?

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The product team

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What is a sprint review?

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A demonstration of the results of the work that contributes to the product increment.

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Who ensures that the team is applying scrum rules, techniques and practices in the best possible way.

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Scrum Master

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Who helps to resolve conflicts, remove impediments and cheer the team on?

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Scrum Master

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Who keeps the team focused on the sprint goal?

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Scrum Master

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Who facilitates scrum activities?

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Scrum Master

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Who protects the team from external “noise” and distractions?

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Scrum Master

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Who is the “servant leader”?

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Scrum Master

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Who clarifies product backlog items?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the PO)

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Who helps to improve communication with the development teams?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the PO)

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Who promotes learning?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the PO).

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Who helps the product owner effectively prioritize work?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the PO)

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Who helps to facilitate meetings like sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the PO).

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Who coaches the team in a self-organizing and cross functional manner?

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Scrum master (as servant leader to the team)

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Who helps the team to create high value products by removing impediments?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the team)

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Who helps to facilitate scrum events, such as sprint planning, scrum or retros?

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Scrum Master (as servant leader to the team).

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who supports the team in organizational environments where scrum is not the norm?

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The scrum master (as the servant leader to the team).

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Who protects the team to allow them to focus on their sprint goal and their work?

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The Scrum Master

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In Sprint planning part 1, are observers allowed?

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No

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What is the objective of sprint planning part one?

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Determining for the next increment “what” requirements and “why” they are needed.

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What are the mandatory key inputs for sprint planning part one?

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A prioritized backlog and the projected sprint capacity of the team.

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What are the optional Key inputs for sprint planning part one?

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Results of the previous sprint, team’s performance and any thing learned about impediments /improvements from the previous sprints.

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A main activity in sprint planning part one is organizing the meeting and ensuring the timebox is respected. Who does this?

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The Scrum Master

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Who presents the up-to-date Product backlog items and priorities at the Sprint planning part one meeting?

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The product owner

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In sprint planning part one, who questions, clarifies and refines the product backlog content, priorities and purpose?

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Everyone.

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During sprint planning part one, who reviews the last sprint team performance, impediments/improvements lists?

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Everyone.

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During sprint planning part one, who provides a high-level estimate of the product backlog items to form the sprint increment?

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The Product team

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During sprint planning part one, who checks/confirms sprint duration, team availability, capacity and capabilities?

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Everyone

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What is the key output at the end of sprint planning part one?

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A tentative sprint goal with the highest priority product backlog items.

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What is the optional Key output of sprint planning part one?

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A reprioritized/refined product backlog.

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What artifact summarizes the desired and expected outcome of a sprint?

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The Sprint Goal

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Who creates the sprint goal?

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Written collaboratively between the Product Owner and team

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What are the two key benefits of a sprint goal?

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It facilitates the prioritization of work and promotes effective team work.

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What are the secondary benefits of a sprint goal?

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Allow the team to maintain alignment between the work and the sprint goal, assists with stakeholder communication and sets clear expectations.

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Who participates in sprint planning part 2?

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The team and scrum master.

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Who is has optional participation in sprint planning part 2?

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The PO and any other SMEs

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What is the focus of sprint planning part 2?

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Determining how the team will deliver the sprint increment as per the sprint goal and how long each item will take.

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What is the mandatory key input for Sprint planning part 2?

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The tentative sprint goal.

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What is the optional key input for sprint planning part 2?

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The product backlog.

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In sprint planning part 2, who ensures the meeting is organized and respects the timebox?

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The scrum master.

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In sprint planning part 2, who converts the Product Backlog items into the sprint backlog with a detailed-task list with estimate?

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The team

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In sprint planning part 2, who confirms (or renegotiates) the forecast, sprint goals and sprint duration?

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Everyone.

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In sprint planning part 2, who explains the spring backlog work and self-organizes to achieve the sprint goal?

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The team.

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In sprint planning part 2, who commits to the final sprint goal?

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Everyone.

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What are the mandatory key outputs of sprint planning part 2?

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The sprint backlog (with tasks and estimates) and the final sprint goal.

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What are the optional key outputs for sprint planning part 2?

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A reprioritized/refined product backlog, and an updated sprint duration (rarely)

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Define Swarming

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When team members with capacity and appropriate skills collectively work (AKA Swarm) on an item that has been started by another team member but not finished.

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Who are the mandatory people in the daily scrum?

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Team, Scrum master

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Who are the optional participants in the daily scrum?

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The PO and any additional SMEs. They only observe.

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What is the objective of the daily scrum?

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Sync sprint activities, create a plan for the next 24 hours and track progress.

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What are the mandatory key inputs to the daily scrum?

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Spring backlog (tasks and estimates) and the sprint burndown chart.

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What is the optional input to the daily scrum?

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The sprint goal.

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What happens at a daily scrum?

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Identifying blockers, updating the sprint backlog, identifying what work was done and what work will be completed for the next daily scrum.

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What are the mandatory key outputs of the daily scrum?

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Updated backlog, and updated sprint burndown chart.

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What are the two optional key outputs of the daily scrum?

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Updated sprint goal (rarely) and an impediments list.

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What is a sprint burndown chart?

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A chart with the remaining ours on the Y axis and sprint duration on the X axis that depicts the trend of the work effort remaining in the sprint.

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Who are mandatory at the sprint review?

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PO, team, Scrum Master, Stakeholders such as end users.

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What is the objective of the sprint review?

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Demo, inspect and capture feedback on a completed product increment.

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What are the key inputs for the sprint review

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Mandatory: completed sprint results, committed sprint goals (and Product Backlog items).
Optional: Sprint backlog and product backlog.

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What are the main activities in a sprint review

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Preparing (team)
Organizing and respecting the time box (Scrum Master)
Presenting the sprint goal and committed and actual PBI (Team)
Providing feedback on demos (PO and Stakeholders)
Inviting stakeholders to provide feedback (PO)
Answering questions and noting improvements (team)
Discussing potential backlog updates (PO)
Announce acceptance or rejection (partial or full) of increment (PO)
announcing place and date for next sprint review (Scrum Master)

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Who participates in a Sprint Retrospective?

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Mandatory: Entire Scrum team, Dev Team, PO
Optional: external facilitator in place of the Scrum Master.

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What is the main objective of sprint the sprint retro?

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Evaluate sprint performance and identifying what worked well and improvement areas.

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What are the key inputs in a retro?

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Mandatory: Completed sprint results and committed sprint goal
Optional Key Inputs: Sprint Backlog and product backlog

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What are the main activities of a sprint retro?

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Organizing the retro (Scrum Master)
Identifying improvements/what went well (All)
Prioritizing improvements (All)
Identifying actionable improvements for the next sprint (All)
Capture and distribute retrospective results (Scrum master or external facilitator)

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What are the two main outputs of a sprint retro?

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Improvements list (mandatory)
Product Backlog (optional)

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What are the four benefits of a sprint retro?

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Enhanced quality
Enriched capability (knowledge sharing/transfer)
Increased productivity
Improved capacity

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What is the Scrum of Scrums (SoS)?

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Allow multiple teams to connect to discuss work, particularly those that overlap. Not a replacement for each teams scrum. One team member from each product team will attend the Scrum of Scrums

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What is the primary benefit of Scrum of Scrums?

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Ensures and facilitates coordination, communication and synchronization.

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In the unlikely event that a sprint is cancelled, what is the first step?

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Conduct a new sprint planning meeting to review the reason for the sprint cancellation.

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Who can cancel a sprint?

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The PO

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Why might a sprint be cancelled?

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If circumstances negate the sprint goal or make it obsolete (e.g., change in strategic direction, or market or tech changes. The team may cancel a sprint if they feel unable to meet the sprint goal.

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