Scrum Quiz Scrum is an agile project management framework that helps teams structure and manages their work through a set of values, principles, and practices. Much like a rugby team (where it gets its name) training for the big game, scrum encourages teams to learn through experiences, self-organize while working on a problem, and reflect on their wins and losses to continuously improve. How confident are you about your Scrum knowledge? Test your Scrum knowledge here by attempting our questions. Keep Learning! 3 minutes 6 multiple-choice questions All unanswered questions will be counted as incorrect answers. Click the "Next" button to skip a question, and click the "Previous" button to return to the previous question. 1 / 6 1. Which of the following is NOT a Scrum Master's responsibility? 1. Empowering the team. 2. Establish priorities together with the Product Owner for Product Backlog Items. 3. Socializing Scrum throughout the organization. 4. Preventing Senior Management from shifting the team priorities. Scrum Master Responsibilities: 1. Implement Project Management/Best Practices; 2. Keep all Parties on Track and Informed; 3. Introduce Agile Engineering Practices; 4. Coach Team Members; 5. Host Daily Stand-up Meetings; 6. Assist the Product Owner With the Product Backlog. It is the product owner’s responsibility to create and maintain the product backlog. The Scrum Master helps the product owner refine and maintain the backlog by using information gathered from standup meetings. They schedule review meetings and prioritize work on user stories. 7. Remove Roadblocks; 8. Teach Scrum Practices and Principles. 2 / 6 2. Appraisals in Scrum are the accountability of (select all that apply): 1. Scrum Master 2. Developers 3. Project Manager 4. Product Owner 5. None of the above Scrum practices and values put emphasis on collaboration and communication. The performance appraisal creates an agenda divide as the employee uses it to try to highlight his or her performance in order to get raises and promotions, while the manager uses the appraisal to divvy up scarce departmental resources. Both agendas can be a motivation for conscious or subconscious distortion of the data, or to behaviors that ultimately benefit the person doing them, but not the company or customer. The appraisal fosters low trust competition in the team rather than self-organizing to meet customer needs. 3 / 6 3. An Increment is: (Select all that apply) 1. The user interface of a product. 2. That satisfies the end User. 3. An elapsed time that the Scrum Team spends on creating the product. 4. Each Increment is additive to all prior Increments and thoroughly verified, ensuring that all Increments work together. In scrum, a product increment is whatever you previously built, plus anything new you just finished in the latest sprint, all integrated, tested, and ready to be delivered or deployed. Without a usable product increment, development teams are delaying the delivery of value and are missing opportunities to get real user feedback and adapt the product to ensure customer satisfaction. On the other hand, incremental releases allow for fast feedback, quicker innovation, continuous improvement, rapid adaptation to change, and more delighted customers. 4 / 6 4. During the Sprint, who is allowed to add tasks to the Sprint Backlog? Select all that apply. 1. The Product Owner. 2. The Development Team. 3. The Scrum Team. 4. The Scrum Master. 5. The Product Owner per the Development Team. Only the Development Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. If the Product Owner wants to change the work planned, he has to do this per the Development Team. The Sprint Backlog is, ultimately, a plan for the Sprint. The development team executing work inside of a Sprint creates a Sprint Backlog. The creation occurs during the Sprint Planning. The central question is, how does this work get done? The Product Owner presents a list of prioritized items from the Product Backlog. The team will analyze the list, do capacity management, figure out what they can do, and make a plan to execute. The Sprint Backlog is a plan to achieve the overall goals of the Sprint. 5 / 6 5. Empiricism is NOT: 1. Knowledge to make a decision comes from experience and observation of prior iterations. 2. Evidence-based rather than theory or pure logic. 3. Decision-making is based on past experience. 4. A defined process with a sequence of steps. Empiricism in Scrum is an approach whereby the team continuously learns and improves from mistakes. In Scrum, empiricism means that the team makes decisions and changes based on what the customer is experiencing, rather than what the developers intended them to experience. Additionally, the empiricism meaning in Scrum is the concept that customer feedback directly impacts the team’s actions. 6 / 6 6. Scrum Teams are (select the best option): 1. Self-organizing, Cross-functional 2. Non-productive, Selfish 3. Self-destructive, Self-motivating 4. Cross-productive, Self-organizing According to the 2017 Scrum Guide: Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team. Cross-functional teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team. In 2020 it has been changed to: Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value for each Sprint. They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how. Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Restart quiz
