Scrum guide

27 important questions on Scrum guide

What are the three artifacts?

  1. Product backlog (PBL)
  2. Sprint backlog (SPL)
  3. Increment

What are the five events?

  1. Sprint (containing event)
  2. Sprint planning
  3. Daily scrum
  4. Sprint review
  5. Sprint retrospective

What is the commitment for each artifact?

  1. Product backlog: product goal
  2. Sprint backlog: sprint goal
  3. Increment: Definition of Done (DoD)
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Name five important aspects about the PBL.

  1. Ordened list of everything known needed in the product.
  2. Only source of requirements for each change on the product.
  3. Consists of both functionalities and non-functionalities (characteristics)
  4. Product owner is responsible
  5. Living artifact which is never finished

Name three important aspects about the SPL.

  1. Consists of the selected items from the PBL for the sprint.
  2. It's the plan for the delivery of the increment and realisation of sprint goal.
  3. Makes the work for the sprint transparent.

Why is empiricism important for scrum?

It asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decision based on what is observed.

Why is lean important for scrum?

Lean thinking:
  1. reduces waste
  2. focusses on the essentials

How does scrum tries to optimize predictability and to control risk?

By employing an iterative and incremental approach.

What is the relationship between the three pillars of scrum?

Transparancy enables inspection -> inspection without transparancy is misleading and wasteful.

Inspection enables adaptation -> adaptation without inspection is pointless. Scrum events are designed to provoke change.

Why is transparancy important for scrum?

Important decisions are based on the perceived state of its three artifacts. With low transparancy, artifacts will not be clear and can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.

Why is inspection important for scrum?

By frequent inspection, potentially undesirable variances or problems can be detected.

Why is adaptation important for scrum?

If inspection detects unacceptable deviation, the process must be adjusted ASAP to minimize further deviation.

What are the five scrum values?

FROCC:
  • Focus
  • Respect
  • Openness
  • Commitment
  • Courage

Sprint planning: how is decided what can be done during the sprint?

The developers discuss with the PO and decide which items from the PBL will be included. Through past experience (empirism) they will do a forecast.

Sprint planning: how is decided how the chosen work will get done?

The developers decompose the PBL into smaller items (<1 day work) which will create an increment that meets the DoD

When do the product owner or scrum master participate as developers during the daily scrum?

When they are working actively on items in the SBL.

What are the benefits of the daily scrum?

  1. Improved communications
  2. Obstacles will be identified
  3. Quick decision-making is promoted
  4. Need for other meetings is eleminated

Is the daily scrum the only moment in which developers are allowed to adjust their plans?

No, they can also do that during the day

What is reviewed during the sprint review?

  1. Accomplishments during the sprint
  2. Changes in the enviroment during the sprint

When is a PBL item ready for a sprint planning?

When they can be done within one sprint.

What is PBL refinement?

Breaking down PBL items and defining them into smaller, more precise items.

Who is responsible for PBL refinement?

The developers.
The product owner helps them to understand the PBL items and informs them about the trade offs.

What is the SBL composed of?

  1. Sprint goal (Why)
  2. Selected PBL items for the sprint (What)
  3. Plan for delivering the increment (How)

What happens when the developers work turn out different than expected?

They work together with the PO to negotiate the scope of the SBL items within the sprint, without affecting the sprint goal.

When is an increment born?

When the PBL items meet the DoD

How does the DoD create transparancy?

By providing everyone a shared understanding of what work was completed as part of the increment.

What happens when a PBL items doesn't meet the DoD?

It returns to the PBL for future consideration.

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