Kelly is the Scrum Master for her organization and she's meeting with her manager to discuss the skillsets required for the Development Team. Kelly tells her manager what fact about what the Development Team needs in every Scrum project?
You are hosting a Sprint Retrospective for the Scrum Team and you want to set some ground rules for the meeting. All of following are appropriate topics for the Sprint Retrospective meeting except for which one?
The table given below presents some Scrum roles that play an important part in business justification and their
responsibilities. Choose the option that correctly matches each role in the left hand column to its action in the
right hand column.
Impediments are a part of any project. Which of the following is NOT true about impediments in Scrum?
The Product Owner on a project, on which you are the Scrum Master, has identified disaster situations, such
as earthquakes and tsunamis, as potential risks to the underwater transnational communication sea link. The
Stakeholders have suggested that steps to safeguard the foundations of the ocean infrastructure be taken at
the earliest, and also have recommended that a contingency reserve be created, which could be used in case
of disaster situations. This is an example of:
Which of the following statements about Release Planning Session is/are Correct?
A) Release Planning Sessions are conducted to develop a plan that defines when various sets of usable
functionality or products will be delivered to the customer.
B) Release Planning Sessions enable the Scrum Team to have an overview of the releases and delivery
schedule for the product they are developing.
C) Whether the releases will follow a phased deployment pattern or a continuous deployment pattern depends
on the stakeholder requirements.
D) Release Planning Sessions should produce a detailed Release Plan for the entire project.
A Scrum team is using a bum-down chart to track their progress. During the sprint, the graph looks like this.
What is certain about this sprint?
Which of the following statements on Risk Management in a Scrum project is INCORRECT?
As a Scrum Master, it is important that you assess skill gaps and training requirements for the team members,
and map the skills, capabilities, and interest level of team members in using those skills and capabilities on a
project. Which one of the following tools can help you do this?
A team is faced with interruptions to their sprints by unplanned work. The team decides that the best course of action is to channel the unplanned work and make sure there is room for unplanned work in the next sprint.
Who is accountable for making sure this happens?
Voltex is a traditional electrical hardware distributor that has been using a command-and-control way of managing As a result, the level of trust between employees and managers is low Senior management wants to become more Agile to survive in their competitive market.
The Voltex electrical team is new to Scrum and adopting Agile is a significant cultural change Therefore management has asked Jennifer, an experienced Scrum Master to lead the new team
The Developers and the Product Owner struggle to follow the advice given during their Scrum training. They wish to adapt the Scrum practices to fit with their previous work and do not understand the changes. For example the Product Owner and Developers question why the Developers should choose what to work on instead of the managers assigning tasks.
What should the Scrum Master do?
A Scrum team has agreed on the following definition of potentially shippable
Potential By shippable increments must have been tested and must meet the conditions of satisfaction provided by the Product Owner Why Is it important to include 'tested' in the definition of what is potentially shippable?
The Scrum framework, being an Agile iterative process, inherently minimizes risk. Many Scrum practices
facilitate effective management of risk. Choose the option that is NOT a correct pairing of a Scrum
characteristic with its role in minimizing risk:
A User Story is considered complete only when the which of the following is/are satisfied?
A) Acceptance Criteria
B) Done criteria
C) Demo to the product owner
D) Non-functional criteria
A Scrum team is in a sprint retrospective at the end of a sprint. The Scrum Master facilitates this meeting and has made a simple board with headings of Keep Start and Stop Team members can post their thoughts for removing impediments.
Most ideas can be grouped together and involve the team's own process. There are some more general suggestions to lift impediments which do not fit into the general groupings. These ideas have to do with the organization's enterprise architecture and data compliance policy
What should the Scrum Master do with these ideas?
You are a project manager for a midsize software company, which still uses the Waterfall model. Your
customer wants a new software project.
When should you consider the use of Agile?
Peter is a Scrum Master on a software development project for a premier chain of hospitals. It is his
responsibility to conduct Daily Standups. Which of the following is not a QUESTION NO: answered by the Scrum
Team during the Daily Standups?
Andy, a Scrum Master, is helping his team draft a Sprint Backlog. In which of the following phases would this
Scrum process be in?
A representative of the customer has asked the Development Team to add a very important item to an ongoing Sprint. What should they do?
Estimating in ideal days is different from estimating in story points
What is the difference?
A company is already using Scrum very successfully within the development department. While highly effective Scrum Teams deliver new software increments quickly, these increments are not being delivered fast enough to customers. Releases happen once every 3 months and it takes too much effort to make sure that the releases go smoothly.
What type of framework should this company try to establish?
A head office of a chain of department stores has commissioned updates to a software package to improve stock management tor its warehouse and customer services.
The Scrum team is implementing notifications on the time of day an out-of-stock item arrives at a nominated store. The team does not have access to the inventory data which is managed by the information management team. This forms a major roadblock Since this feature has high external value it is important that the roadblock is removed.
What is the best way for the Scrum Master to help the team in this situation?
Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to
your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories
committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement. Which
one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?
A Scrum Team suggests to have a project with 3 Sprints of 2 weeks, while the customer suggests 1 Sprint of 6 weeks.
What is the greatest advantage of having 3 Sprints of 2 weeks?
A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance. One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators.
What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?
Listed below are some responsibilities of a Scrum Master. Identify the one that is NOT correct.
Marty is coaching the Development Team on being completely done with the user stories in a Sprint. What should Marty tell the Development Team regarding the completeness of a Product Backlog?
A Scrum Team is estimating the prioritized User Stories. Each team member has been assigned a deck of
numbered cards, in which each card is numbered in a sequence. The team members use these cards to
assess a particular User Story by picking and showing a card from the deck that represents their estimate for
the User Story. Which estimation tool is the Scrum Team using?
Which of the following activities is NOT a part of the implementation phase in Scrum?