Agile Development / Scrum

Question 1

What would make a project more appropriate for Plan-Driven Development?

Answer 1

The systems are critical and must be designed from robust specification, and/or the system is large and demands a formal network of numerous teams.

Question 2

What would make a project more appropriate for Agile Development?

Answer 2

Human resources are available both for the development, a small cohesive team of experts that can be enough to develop the entire software, and the testing, system users giving frequent feedback via deliverable increments of the software.

Question 3

What are the 5 principals of Agile Development

Answer 3

1. Customer Involvement
2. Incremental Delivery
3. People, Not Process
4. Embrace Change
5. Maintain Simplicity

Question 4

What are the Agile Manifesto values

Answer 4

1. Individuals & Interactions > Process & Tools
2. Working Software > Comprehensive Documentation
3. Customer Collaboration > Contract Negotiation
4. Resonding to Change > Following a Plan

Question 5

What are the 5 strengths of Agile Development

Answer 5

1. Flexible and nimble for volatile requirements
2. Unhindered by management for fast action
3. Open communication between customers and developers
4. Cohesive communication between the developers
5. Adaptive lifestyle avoids major lengthy flops

Question 6

What is XP

Answer 6

Extreme Programming is an Agile method that has 2-week increments, complete regression tests, and refactoring.

Question 7

What are 2 responsibilities of Agile Project Managers

Answer 7

1. Make sure software is delivered on time and within the budget
2. Make the plan of what gets delivered and when, and who will work on it

Question 8

What are the 3 major phases of Scrum Development

Answer 8

1. Establish objectives and design architecture
2. Sprints
3. Close project with documentation and analyze project issues

Question 9

What are the 7 responsibilities of a Scrum Product Owner

Answer 9

1. Identify and prioritize product features or requirements
2. Finds work for and reviews the product backlog
3. Requirements lord
4. Increment/Sprint lord
5. Shipping lord
6. Termination lord
7. Visionaire of the product

Question 10

What are the 4 responsibilities of a Scrum Master

Answer 10

1. Keeps the Scrum Team compartmentalized from the rest of the company by being the “interface”
2. Facilitates self-organization
3. Analyzes and adjusts forecasts
4. Promotes good engineering practices

Question 11

How long are Sprints typically

Answer 11

2 - 4 weeks

Question 12

What is Sprint Velocity

Answer 12

An attempted quantification of work capability, or the rate of Story Points per Iteration, used for estimating appropriate amounts of work for each Sprint

Question 13

Whats the max size of a Scrum team

Answer 13

10

Question 14

What are the 4 types of items in a Scrum Product Backlog

Answer 14

1. Feature definitions
2. Requirements
3. Stories
4. Supplementary tasks

Question 15

What is the technical term for the increment that can be delivered by a Sprint

Answer 15

Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI)

Question 16

What are the 3 reports for each Scrum?

Answer 16

1. Work performed
2. Obstacles
3. Plan of work to perform

Question 17

How long are Scrums?

Answer 17

15 minutes

Question 18

What are the 6 necessities of Agile Development

Answer 18

1. Dedication to the project, no part-time
2. Experience / Expertise / Cohesion / Cooperation (EECC), full-stack / cross-component
3. Small team
4. Regression Tests / Continuous Integration
5. Seek user feedback
6. Keep increments short

Question 19

What is the ideal Scrum team size

Answer 19

7 +/- 2

Question 20

What are the 3 Scrum positions

Answer 20

1. Scrum Master
2. Product Owner
3. Developer

Question 21

What is the employee hierarchy in Scrum

Answer 21

There isn’t one

Question 22

Who internally manages a Scrum team

Answer 22

Nobody

Question 23

How are duties assigned in Scrum

Answer 23

Naturally

Question 24

What are the 4 Scrum Events

Answer 24

1. Sprint Planning
2. Daily Scrum
3. Sprint Review
4. Sprint Retrospective

Question 25

What are the 6 Scrum stages

Answer 25

1. DECIDE work to be done 2. ORGANIZE and compartmentalize 3. SPRINT and deliver 4. REVIEW and update the Backlog

Question 26

What are the 7 necessities of Scrum Development

Answer 26

1. Need to start with first designing an internal architecture along with an infrastructure and implementing them into a working framework 2. Use small, local, interdisciplinary teams 3. Use OOP with interfaces 4. Team members are proactive and do not need management 5. Develop prototypes 6. Sprints do not end until there is an executable 7. Have different people developing, documenting, and testing to benefit from parallelism

Question 27

What are the 2 tasks of Sprint Planning

Answer 27

1. IDENTIFY what work can be done and define the Sprint Goal of why this Sprint will be valuable 2. DISTRIBUTE the work, decomposing items into smaller items as necessary

Question 28

What is the Sprint Backlog composed of

Answer 28

1. Sprint Goal (why) 2. Product Backlog Items (what) 3. Plans (how)

Question 29

What is the Sprint Goal

Answer 29

This is a description of why a Sprint is valuable. Written during Sprint Planning.

Question 30

What is the max acceptable amount of time to spend on Sprint Planning per Sprint

Answer 30

8 hours

Question 31

What are the 2 nicknamed positions of Scrum Meetings

Answer 31

Pigs (committed) and Chickens (only indirectly involved)

Question 32

What are the 4 rules of Daily Scrum

Answer 32

1. Daily 15m 2. Max 3 questions each 3. Committed team members must have something to say 4. Only internal discoveries can be added to the Backlogs

Question 33

What is the goal of the Sprint Review

Answer 33

Elicitate the outcome of the Sprint

Question 34

What is the max acceptable amount of time spent for a Sprint Review

Answer 34

4 hours

Question 35

What is the goal of the Sprint Retrospective

Answer 35

Improve interal processes and cohesiveness

Question 36

What is the max acceptable amount of time spent for a Sprint Retrospective

Answer 36

3 hours

Question 37

What are the 3 Scrum Artifacts and their commitment

Answer 37

1. Product Backlog - Product Goal 2. Sprint Backlog - Sprint Goal 3. Increment - Definition of Done

Question 38

What is Scrum Product Backlog Refinement

Answer 38

Decomposing Backlog items into smaller items

Question 39

What is the Scrum Product Goal

Answer 39

A bordered description of the state that the product will be and who asked for it; for the Product Backlog items to be based on

Question 40

What is the number representing the amount of work required to complete a Scrum Product Backlog item

Answer 40

Estimate

Question 41

What are the 3 components of a Scrum Product Backlog item

Answer 41

1. Description 2. Priority 3. Estimate

Question 42

What is the most common type of item in the Scrum Product Backlog

Answer 42

User Story

Question 43

What is a Scrum User Story

Answer 43

A user description of desired functionality

Question 44

What are Scrum Story Points

Answer 44

A unit of measure of the amount of estimated work of a User Story

Question 45

What is the difference between a Scrum Story and a Task and what is the scope of the Product Owner's involvement

Answer 45

Tasks are technical work, not concerned by the Product Owner, completed for a Story to be delivered, that being the Product Owner's goal.

Question 46

What are the 2 types of Scrum Stories

Answer 46

1. TECH, indirect benefit of technical improvements, often low priority 2. SUPPORT, direct impact from bugs and maintenance

Question 47

What is a Scrum Increment

Answer 47

When a Product Backlog item is completed under the Definition of Done