Scrum Roles Events and Artifacts Flashcards
What are the three Scrum events?
Reviews
Planning
Retrospective
What three roles are recognized in Scrum?
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Development Team
What is the job of a Scrum Master?
Servant Leader
Facilitator of Development Team
Process Coach
Impediment remover
What is the job of a Product Owner?
Provides vision and direction to the team
Prioritizes the requirements for team
What is the job of a Development Team?
Comprises of 10 developers
Makes efforts to meet goals set by PO
Scrum Master Do’s
is a servant leader who helps the team achieve success
facilitator of scrum events (sprint planning, daily stand-up)
an impediment remover (like always having to seek approvals)
is the process coach for the team
Scrum Master Don’ts
not to be a figure of authority under any circumstances
should not be the task master of the team (micro manage, assign tasks, as for daily status, chase people down)
will not be a technical or design authority for the team
What are some important skills and attributes of a good Scrum Master?
Collaborative, knowledgeable, humble, influential, committed, patient.
What are the two roles of a Product Owner?
Vision and Boundaries
Product owner creates a product vision with several inputs such as:
customers
technical team
executive
SME’s
Product owner creates a product vision with several inputs such as:
Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery milestones and roadmap
Establishes acceptance criteria
To be successful, a product owner must be:
available, business savvy, excellent communicator, decisive, empowered.
True or False
The PO rarely makes decisions?
False
True or False
The scrum master ought to be decisive in decision making
False
True or False
Neither the PO or Scrum Master should have reporting authority over the Development Team
True
True or False
The PO represents the interests of stakeholders in the product
True
True or False
A scrum master may have to push back against unrealistic goals set by a “pushy” PO
True
True or False
Over time, the scrum master becomes less busy whereas the PO becomes busier?
True
Agile teams have three distinguishing characteristics which are:
Small
Cross-functional
Self-organizing
True or False
Small teams are favorable, as it is more productive
True
True or False
Scrum teams adjust better to component teams.
False
True or False
Component teams are NOT favored in scrum teams
True
What are some advantages of feature teams over component teams?
Evaluate design decision impact Reduces waste by hand-offs Ensures right people are talking No risk to schedule Focuses on feature delivery
In a Scrum team, the project manager’s duties are taken care by different roles. What responsibilities does a PO ingest from a PM?
Road maps
Release plans
Stakeholder engagement
In a Scrum team, the project manager’s duties are taken care by different roles. What responsibilities does a Scrum Team ingest from a PM?
Estimation
Planning
Day-to-day task management
True or False
The Scrum Master takes over the role of establishing the process and advising the team
True
True or False
Scrum makes no distinction for the different specialist positions in the Development Team.
True
Architects, UX designers, Testers are all viewed as part of the team.
Product Owners are responsible for the W** in the delivery of each increment
What
The Development Team is responsible for the H** in the delivery of each increment
How
A sprint is synonymous with __________.
iteraction
A sprint is a _______ event between one to _____ weeks.
timebox, 4
The goal for a sprint should be a complete and releasable product. Which encompasses ________ and _______.
Development
Testing
True or False
Sprint duration and deliverables should not change once it has been planned.
True
What should occur in the first day of a Sprint
Iteration Preparation
What should occur in the second day of a Sprint
Iteration Planning
What should occur in next to the last day of a Sprint
Demo Preparation
What Team event occurs at the last day of a sprint?
Retrospective
The backlog refinement (grooming) process includes:
Discovering and describing items
Prioritizing the backlog
Sizing the backlog items
Getting ready for planning the next sprint
The steps followed in a Scrum methodology are:
Sprint Planning
Daily stand-up
Sprint review
Sprint retrospective
Who ought to attend a Sprint Planning meeting?
Developer
Product Owner
Scrum Master
During Sprint Planning, whose responsible for:
Underline the goals of the sprint
Clarify open questions
Take priority decisions
Product Owner
During Sprint Planning, whose responsible for:
Facilitating the meeting
Scrum Master
During Sprint Planning, whose responsible for:
Plan the sprint in as much detail as possible
Team
During Sprint Planning, what two approaches are there to determine the workload?
Velocity-Driven
Commitment-Driven
If a team doesn’t have enough past data (sprints) to determine work load, what could they begin with?
Start with the commitment-driven approach: decisions based on discussions and willingness to commit.
True or False
Team buy-in is important regardless of what Sprint Planning work load is decided upon.
True
_________ is a measure of the amount of work that the team can do in a given sprint or iteration.
Velocity
Steps involved in a velocity-driven approach to sprint planning are:
Adjust priority Determine the target velocity Identify an iteration goal Select the user stories Split the user stories Estimate tasks
In a commitment-driven sprint planning event, the team adds stories to the backlog _____________ aligned with a sprint goal.
one at a time
Various failure modes of sprint planning are:
Too aggressive or too conservative Inability to reach consensus Not considering known events Not enough preparation Search for elusive certainty
True or False
Scrum Master must let the team justify their commitment without any influence.
True
a meeting described as:
OF THE TEAM, FOR THE TEAM, and BY THE TEAM is what meeting?
Daily Scrum
Daily Scrum Meeting agenda asks?
What happened yesterday
What is planned for today
What issues are blocking progress
Who ought to attend the Sprint Review event?
Developers
PO
Scrum Master
interested stakeholders
What is the only event (meeting) that individuals NOT in the Scrum team can attend?
The Sprint Review
Who should attend a Sprint Retrospective event? (1hr)
Development team
Scrum Master
The purpose of the sprint retrospective is to:
Make issue visible
Come up with improvement opportunities
Take ownership of the actions
True or False
A Scrum master should facilitate the Spring Retrospective and make people want to attend.
True
Failure modes of Sprint Review:
Inadequate preparation Too many or too few external invitees Team members getting too defensive Too much discussion Discussing retrospective or next sprint planning
Various failure modes of sprint retrospective are:
Temptation to skip Fatigue of the team Tendency to point fingers Presence of external stakeholders Too much attention to negatives
The definition of Done answers the question ___________.
What does success look like!
The definition of Ready answers the question _________________.
Are we ready to start working on a product backlog item?
An item is ready to be worked on only if:
______ is any work item that the team can do to add value to the customer.
Backlog
New requirements relevant to product keeps the ___________ evolving.
product backlog.
Release backlogs is a subset of the?
product backlog
Sprint backlog is a subset of a _______________ containing all the work to be completed in a sprint.
release backlog
Backlog content comprises of:
Backlog content comprises of:
Desirable characteristics of a product backlog can be described as:
DEEP
Detailed appropriately
Estimated
Emergent
Prioritized
The ‘D’ in DEEP describes
items with higher priority are provided with more details
The first ‘E’ in DEEP describes
Estimates are expressed as story points of ideal days.
The second ‘E’ in DEEP describes
Emergent - backlog items can be added, moved, modified, or removed as required by the customer.
The ‘P’ in DEEP describes
All product backlog items must be prioritized
