QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
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How long should sprint planning be - ANSWER: 8 hours or less
How long should daily scrum be - ANSWER: 15 minutes or less
How long should sprint review be - ANSWER: 4 hours or less
How long should sprint retrospective be - ANSWER: 3 hours or less
Scrum - ANSWER: A framework within which people can address complex adaptive
problems, while
productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value
Scrum employs an - ANSWER: iterative, incremental approach to optimize
predictability and control risk.
Scrum is founded on - ANSWER: empirical process control theory, or empiricism
Empiricism asserts that - ANSWER: knowledge comes from experience and making
decisions based on what is known.
Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: - ANSWER:
Transparency, inspection, adaptation
Transparency - ANSWER: Significant aspects of the process must be visible to those
responsible for the outcome.
In transparency - ANSWER: A common language referring to the process must be
shared by all participants; and,
Those performing the work and those inspecting the resulting increment must
share a
common definition of "Done".
inspection - ANSWER: Scrum users must frequently inspect Scrum artifacts and
progress toward a Sprint Goal to detect
undesirable variances
Adaptation - ANSWER: If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a
process deviate outside acceptable
limits, and that the resulting product will be unacceptable, the process or the
material being
, processed must be adjusted. An adjustment must be made as soon as possible to
minimize
further deviation.
Scrum prescribes four formal events for inspection and adaptation - ANSWER: Sprint
planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective
Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these
five values. - ANSWER: commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect
The Scrum Team consists of - ANSWER: a Product Owner, the Development Team,
and a Scrum Master.
Scrum teams deliver products - ANSWER: iteratively and incrementally, maximizing
opportunities for
feedback.
Incremental deliveries of a done product ensure - ANSWER: a potentially useful
version of
working product is always available.
Product backlog management includes - ANSWER: Clearly expressing Product
Backlog items;
• Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
• Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;
• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and
shows what
the Scrum Team will work on next; and,
• Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the
level
needed.
The Product Owner may manage the product backlog or have the Development
Team do it. However, the
Product Owner remains accountable - ANSWER: True
The product owner is - ANSWER: A person, not a committee
The development team consists of - ANSWER: professionals who do the work of
delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each
Sprint.
A done increment is required at the end of each sprint - ANSWER: true
Who can create the increment - ANSWER: Only members of the development team