SCRUM Activities

Question 1

What is a project?

Answer 1

A collaborative enterprise to create a new products or services, to deliver results as defined in the project vision statement

Question 2

What is a program?

Answer 2

A group of related projects, with the objective to deliver business outcomes as defined in the programme vision statements.

Question 3

What is the portafolio?

Answer 3

A group of related programmes, with the objective to deliver business outcomes as defines in the portafolio vision statement

Question 4

Describe the behavior of Sprints.

Answer 4

Sprints are short timeboxed development and test cycles.

• Fixed short duration, usually 2 to 4 weeks
• fixed team size 8 to 10 people
• consistent length
• clearly stated goal
• clear end point

Question 5

Describe the behavior of timeboxing

Answer 5

Time management technique to organize work.

• Limits the amount of work in progress
• Forces prioritization
• demonstrates progress
• avoids perfectionism
• motivates closure
• improves predictability

Question 6

What does timeboxing allow?

Answer 6

Tme-boxing allows for frequent checkpoints, and puts a boundary on error. it allows activities to be wrong in a small way

Question 7

Which activities are time-boxed in scrum?

Answer 7

• releases
• meetings
• sprints
• research

Question 8

Why the sprint activities have consistent duration?

Answer 8

• Provides cadence for project activities
• simplifies planning
• consistent velocity
• improves predictability

Question 9

What is velocity?

Answer 9

The amount of work a team can accomplish in a sprint, measured by totalling the amount of story points completed by the end of the sprint
- also, it gives a previous like capacity for future sprints

Question 10

Describe what fixed goal is.

Answer 10

Once the sprint goal is established, no change permitted. Because mutual commitment between product owner and team It needs to be meaningful and measurable and must be pragmatic.

Question 11

Define ‘Done’

Answer 11

Checklist of the work that the team is expected to complete successfully before declaring a potentially shippable increment.

• It’s agreed by the team and product owner, and applicable to all user stories.
• Depends on the nature of the product being built user
• different for user stories and sprints

Question 12

What are the different type of scrum ceremonies?

Answer 12

• Daily stand-up
• Show an tell
• sprint retrospective
• project retrospective

Question 13

Briefly describe daily stand-up

Answer 13

• Daily stand-up: scrum master, developers, product owner discuss and plan for day
• 15 minutes
• identifies, such things as what did i accomplish since last daily scrum
• what do i plan to work on by next daliy scrum

Question 14

Briefly describe show and tell

Answer 14

• Show an tell: team members and invited customers meet to look at output
• presents only completed work
• sometimes includes a demo of potentially shippable product increment to stakeholders

Question 15

Briefly describe sprint retrospective

Answer 15

• sprint retrospective: scrum master, developers, product owner discuss each sprint and asses lessons learnt
• between 60 to 90 minutes
• process improvements
• best practices
• process problems and bottlenecks

Question 16

Briefly describe project retrospective

Answer 16

• project retrospective: team members and invited customers meet to discuss project and asses lessons learnt

Question 17

What is estimation?

Answer 17

is typically part of grooming exercise, and is iterative, resulting in increasing accurate estimates

• portafolio backlog estimates
• product backlog estimates
• task estimates

Question 18

What are story points?

Answer 18

The user stories are estimated in story points. This estimates the magnitude of PBI

• uses points based on fibonacci sequence 0,1,2,3,5,8
• reflects the inevitable uncertainty in estimate very large stories

Question 19

What are the estimation guidelines?

Answer 19

• estimate as a team and estimates are not commitments
• focus on accuracy, not precision
• use relative not absolute sizes

Question 20

What is planning poker?

Answer 20

is a consensus-based technique for estimating effort

• product owner presents PBI
• scrum team discusses
• it’s selected privately
• all estimates are exposed at the same time
• if all cards the same, that is PBI estimate
• if not, repeat until consensus

Question 21

What is and what is included in a scrumboard?

Answer 21

Scrumboard is a tool used to plan and track progress during each sprint

• to do: tasks not started
• in progress: tasks started
• testing: tasks completed but being tested
• done: task completed and tested

Question 22

Mention some tools to measure and track SCRUM progress.

Answer 22

• Trello
• Jira
• Kanban board
• Velocity
• Burndown Chart
• Yesterday’s weather

Question 23

What is user research?

Answer 23

User research is about understanding the behavior of the user and what they want from a product

Qualitative methods provide insight about people’s behavior and examine data to understand real usage and trends

Question 24

Is velocity a performance metric?

Answer 24

No, velocity is a planning tool. not a performance metric