The Scrum Artifacts

Question 1

What is an “artifact’ in scrum?

Answer 1

Important information needed during the development of a product

Question 2

How many artifacts are there in scrum?

Answer 2

3

Question 3

What are the scrum artifacts?

Answer 3

1. Product Backlog
2. Sprint Backlog
3. Increment

Question 4

Each artifact has a “commitment” which describes the goal for the artifact. What is the commitment for the “Product Backlog”?

Answer 4

Product Goal

Question 5

Each artifact has a “commitment” which describes the goal for the artifact. What is the commitment for the “Sprint Backlog”?

Answer 5

Sprint Goal

Question 6

Each artifact has a “commitment” which describes the goal for the artifact. What is the commitment for the “Increment”?

Answer 6

Definition of Done

Question 7

What is the purpose of the product backlog?

Answer 7

It represents all of the work the scrum team knows it needs to do in order to deliver the product.

Question 8

What does the product backlog consists of?

Answer 8

• Product Backlog items (PBIs) - something that needs to be done
• A Product Goal - that describes the team’s current long-term objective for the product

Question 9

Who is accountable for creating PBIs?

Answer 9

The Product Owner. However, they can delegate this responsibility so that anyone on the team may add PBIs to the backlog.

Question 10

Size estimation of PBIs is done by who?

Answer 10

Developers, as they are the only ones in a position to estimate how much work each PBI involves.

Question 11

There are many ways to estimate the size of PBI’s. What are common ones?

Answer 11

• Absolute (time-based; it will take 9 hours)
• Relative (using a scale; story points or t-shirt sizing)
• Flow metrics (based on the team’s historical data such as throughput)
• Right sizing (identifies items that are small enough to be completed within one single Sprint; otherwise break down the PBI).

Question 12

What is the Product Goal?

Answer 12

It describes the future state of the product. It’s a “commitment” for the Product Backlog.

Question 13

What is “refinement”?

Answer 13

The activity of continually improving PBIs until they are ready to be worked on.

Question 14

Is there one single time refinement should take place during a sprint?

Answer 14

No. Refinement of the Product Backlog may happen many times during the Sprint. Therefore the refinement is not prescribed as a scrum “event”.