PSM 2 SCRUM EXAM SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Agile software development is driven by
Answer: business and business opportunities.All work is reorganized to
respond to and enable that business opportunities can be capitalized on.
●● 'Value' is the answer to business opportunities and the overall
measure of progress and success.
Answer: Value is an internal assumption within the organization until the
software is actually released to the marketplace. Releasing software on
the marketplace is the only way to validate this assumption.Releasing
software on the marketplace regularly is the only way to adapt to the
feedback and appreciation of the marketplace.
●● Value is continuously increased across iterations and risk is
controlled by
Answer: consecutively producing working increments based upon
defined engineering standards
●● Technical perspective on risk (Will the system perform? Is it
scalable?) often ignores the fact that the ultimate goal of software
development is
,Answer: to provide greater satisfaction to end-users and customers, to
endure that software product is useful.
●● The Agile software development process should address the risk
Answer: of not being able to capitalize on unforeseen and previously
unknown market opportunities, of not releasing the software product fast
enough,being subject to customer dissatisfaction e.g. by releasing
untested software, the risk of releasing features that are not what users
expect or appreciate etc.
●● High-value needs are answered first.
Answer: Software products, versions and releases are released quickly
and frequently.They get users to pay for the software and optimize the
stakeholders' return. They are of high quality in order to minimize
maintenance and support.
●● Agile understands the core purpose of the 'normal' IT activities:
Answer: Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing/Integration), but breaks
the sequential organization of these. The goal of such an integrated,
cross-functional approach is to build in quality and to prevent defects,
rather than attempt to establish quality by a bug hunting approach in a
post-development phase.
●● Agility is the state of
Answer: High responsiveness, speed and adaptiveness, while controlling
risks.It serves to better deal with the unpredictability so common to the
, work of software development and to the markets that organizations
operate within.
●● ■ Agility can't be planned; ■ Agility can't be dictated; ■ Agility has
no end-state.
Answer: Agility in itself is much more than following a new process. It
is about behavior, it is about cultural change.In a transformation towards
an Agile way of working, there is no way of predicting what change
needs will be encountered at what point in time, how these will be dealt
with and what the exact outcome will be in order to control next steps.
●● A time-planned way for an Agile transformation ignores the essence
of Agile,
Answer: that of dealing with complexity via well-considered steps of
experimentation and learning.
●● Agility has no end-state.
Answer: Time-plans create the illusion of deadlines and a final end-state.
●● A practice to identify structural waste is Value Stream Mapping.
Answer: All steps and phases in the process of going from 'idea' to 'cash'
are set out on a timeline. Activities may be labeled as 'valuable' or as
'non-value adding', but possibly also as necessary although not directly
value-adding.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Agile software development is driven by
Answer: business and business opportunities.All work is reorganized to
respond to and enable that business opportunities can be capitalized on.
●● 'Value' is the answer to business opportunities and the overall
measure of progress and success.
Answer: Value is an internal assumption within the organization until the
software is actually released to the marketplace. Releasing software on
the marketplace is the only way to validate this assumption.Releasing
software on the marketplace regularly is the only way to adapt to the
feedback and appreciation of the marketplace.
●● Value is continuously increased across iterations and risk is
controlled by
Answer: consecutively producing working increments based upon
defined engineering standards
●● Technical perspective on risk (Will the system perform? Is it
scalable?) often ignores the fact that the ultimate goal of software
development is
,Answer: to provide greater satisfaction to end-users and customers, to
endure that software product is useful.
●● The Agile software development process should address the risk
Answer: of not being able to capitalize on unforeseen and previously
unknown market opportunities, of not releasing the software product fast
enough,being subject to customer dissatisfaction e.g. by releasing
untested software, the risk of releasing features that are not what users
expect or appreciate etc.
●● High-value needs are answered first.
Answer: Software products, versions and releases are released quickly
and frequently.They get users to pay for the software and optimize the
stakeholders' return. They are of high quality in order to minimize
maintenance and support.
●● Agile understands the core purpose of the 'normal' IT activities:
Answer: Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing/Integration), but breaks
the sequential organization of these. The goal of such an integrated,
cross-functional approach is to build in quality and to prevent defects,
rather than attempt to establish quality by a bug hunting approach in a
post-development phase.
●● Agility is the state of
Answer: High responsiveness, speed and adaptiveness, while controlling
risks.It serves to better deal with the unpredictability so common to the
, work of software development and to the markets that organizations
operate within.
●● ■ Agility can't be planned; ■ Agility can't be dictated; ■ Agility has
no end-state.
Answer: Agility in itself is much more than following a new process. It
is about behavior, it is about cultural change.In a transformation towards
an Agile way of working, there is no way of predicting what change
needs will be encountered at what point in time, how these will be dealt
with and what the exact outcome will be in order to control next steps.
●● A time-planned way for an Agile transformation ignores the essence
of Agile,
Answer: that of dealing with complexity via well-considered steps of
experimentation and learning.
●● Agility has no end-state.
Answer: Time-plans create the illusion of deadlines and a final end-state.
●● A practice to identify structural waste is Value Stream Mapping.
Answer: All steps and phases in the process of going from 'idea' to 'cash'
are set out on a timeline. Activities may be labeled as 'valuable' or as
'non-value adding', but possibly also as necessary although not directly
value-adding.
