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Congrats ! You proved to be a great Product Owner !

#1. What is the reason that the Daily Scrum is held in the same place and same time everyday? ? Read about

To reduce complexity.

It doesn’t have to at the same time everyday as long as its same place

It doesn’t have to at the same place everyday as long as its same time

So that new team members can find the room easily

The Daily Scrum is held at the same time and place each day to reduce complexity – Scrum Guide

#2. When the Product Backlog is not ready for Sprint Planning what happens? ? Focus on the Agile Manifesto Values

Cancel the Sprint until Backlog is ready.

Work during Sprint Planning to refine the backlog for one Sprint.

Identify enough work for the first day and set up a second Sprint Planning meeting when the Product Owner is ready.

Let the team decide what should be done.

Backlog refinement is not an official Scrum ceremony yet (10/18/2019). Scrum is one of the most popular Agile framework, but is is constantly being updated with valuable input from real life Scrum Masters like You!

Note: You can suggest your idea or change to the Scrum Guide here. If the idea gets popular among the Scrum.org community it may be part of the Scrum guide!

Since there is always nothing before something, if there is no concrete backlog, it is still better to re-purpose your first sprint Planning meeting (the first half which is supposed to focus on the “What” part of the Sprint Backlog) instead of letting go of the golden opportunity of all required stakeholders available for discussion of the Product Backlog refinement!

Since this event is time boxed it will be obvious how much work can be consumed into the Sprint at this early state based on the number of items we were able to discover or refine. So if you do not have a backlog to groom you can still work during Sprint Planning to refine the backlog to the extent possible. You will of course keep building more detail and add more PBIs to the top of the Backlog during the ongoing Backlog refinement sessions

Focus on the Agile Manifesto Value of “Responding to change over following a plan“

#3. An optimal Development Team has at least 5 members ? Read about the Development Team role from Scrum guide

To increase the overall productivity

To get more accurate estimates

This is not required as long as the overall team maturity is high

This is not required in Scrum

To have enough capacity during holidays and sick time

There is no specification in Scrum that an optimal Development Team is made up of at least 5 members. Originally the ideal scrum team size was prescribed to be 7± 2. Now it is 6 ± 3. So the max is still 9, but the range was increased in the Scrum Guide as there are plenty of successful Scrum development teams with 3 or 4 members.

#4. The Development Team should have all the skills needed to: ? Read about

Finish the project as estimated when the date and cost are committed to the project.

Perform all best practices needed to develop quality code that is refactored, has unit tests, automation regression tests developed, user documentation created and UI completed

Do all of the development work, but not the types of testing that require specialized automation regression framework to be setup

Turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.

They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality – Scrum Guide

#5. The Development Team should have all the skills needed to: ? Read about the Scrum Development Team from the Scrum Guide

Complete the project within the budget and originally foretasted release deadlines.

Turn the Product Backlog items it selects into an increment of potentially shippable product functionality

Do all of the development work, but not the types of work involving security and network tasks that are handled by another department

Perform all best practices needed to develop quality code that is refactored, has unit tests, automation regression tests developed, user documentation created and UI completed

The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of “Done” product at the end of each Sprint. – Scrum Guide

#6. What is the primary way a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity? ? Read about the Scrum Master role and his services to the development team from the Scrum guide on Scrum.org

By preventing any changes to the backlogs once the Sprint begins.

By making sure Scrum Development Team meetings are starting and ending at the proper time.

By making sure User stories and Acceptance Criteria are added to the Sprint backlog before the Sprint begins.

By supporting Development Team decisions and removing impediments.

By ensuring the Product owner is placing high value features at the top of the Product backlog.

The Scrum Master service to the development team includes :

Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress;
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and,

–Scrum Guide

#7. A very senior manager of the firm asks the Development Team to add a “very important” item to the current Sprint. What should the Development Team do?

Inform the Product Owner so he/she can work with the CEO.

Add the item to the current Sprint and drop an item of equal size.

Add the item to the next Sprint.

Add the item to the current Sprint without any adjustments.

When Scrum is matured at an organization the senior manager would know not to contact the team directly interfering with their current sprint goal and backlog. The sprint backlog items have been selected as most valuable by the Product Owner. No changes should be made that endanger the Sprint Goal. No changes can be pushed on the Development Team (Sprint Backlog) and the Product Owner (Product Backlog). The PO however can work with the development team to add/drop work to sprint backlog anytime during the sprint.

#8. What are the benefits of self-organization?

Increased Commitment, Accountability, Creativity

More adherence to Scrum rules, Creativity, better estimates

Increased Commitment, Accountability, Better estimates

More adherence of Scrum Rules, accurate forecasting, increased velocity

Increased Commitment, Accountability and Creativity are the direct results of a self-organizing team

#9. What is the primary role of Management in Scrum? ? Think about how the Management can

To continually monitor resource needs of the Development Teams across multiple product lines.

To support the Scrum Teams with insights and resources that help them improve.

To monitor the Development Team’s productivity through a weekly status report.

To identify and remove people that aren’t working hard enough.

Management has to support the Scrum Teams with insights and resources that help them improve.

#10. When is the work planned for the first days of a Sprint decomposed?

At the end of Sprint Review

At the first Daily Scrum

At the beginning of Sprint Retrospective

At the end of Sprint Planning

Work planned for the first days of the Sprint by the Development Team is decomposed by the end of this meeting, often to units of one day or less. – Scrum Guide

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