Question 1

What is the Purpose of Scrum?

Accepted Answer

Teams create value by adapting solutions continously. Scrum is a discovery framework, not a delivery approach.

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It's about deliverying increments each sprint by upfront specifications. Scrum is a software delivery framework.

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The main purpose is to deliver something new every Sprint. Scrum is about chopping work into smaller parts.

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The main purpose is to ensure team capacity allocation best. Scrum is about working in small teams efficiently.

Question 2

What is the Scrum Team commitment?

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During the Sprint the planned work can be skipped if better ways occur to achieve the Sprint Goal.

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During the Sprint, you can't stop or change the planned work. Be careful in piling the Sprint Backlog.

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Sprint Backlog Items are the promise the team make to their stakeholders. They have to be fullfilled by all circumstances.

Question 3

What is the Purpose of Scrum Events?

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Planning and creating value.

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Planning and controling deliveries in detail to implement a product incrementally.

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Monitoring capacity to work efficiently.

Question 4

Does Scrum handle long-term thinking?

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Product Goals are the long-term objectives in Scrum. They describe the future state of the product.

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Scrum isn't suited for looking beyond 1 or 2 months due to the Sprint size limit < 4 weeks,

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There is no long-term development since you can change the implementation after each sprint

Question 5

How to assess Team Performance in Scrum?

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By Teams' Goal Achievement (Product Goal and Sprint Goal) — Independent of amount of Story Points achieved.

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By Teams' Productivity. Assess whether the team meet the sprint deadlines and the committed deliveries (Sprint Backlog Items).

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By Teams' Productivity. Assess how many Story Points a team deliver.

Question 6

If a Scrum Team achieves the Sprint Goal early, must they then continue the Sprint?

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The Sprint ends when the time-box expires.

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They can shorten the Sprint and start the next one.

Question 7

What can we do within a Sprint?

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None of the mentioned.

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Hardening Sprint — An additional Sprint to finalize an item before it gets deployed.

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Sprints for different phases — Sprints for Requirements Gathering, for Design, for Development, Testing, Deployment.

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Sprint Zero — Sprint Zero entails everything that is deemed required to start a project or to start working on a feature.

Question 8

Do we need Estimates in a Complex Environment?

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Spending time on detailed estimates is a waste.

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The more information the more precise are the estimations how long it takes to finish a feature.

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Estimations are pointless.

Question 9

Who Should Lead the Scrum Team?

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The Scrum Team knows three accountabilities: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developer. They are hierarchically equal. Together, they decide what to do and how to do the work.

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Product Owners report to upper management or Product Department, Scrum Masters report to Product Owners how the team works, and the Developers report to Scrum Masters and Product Owners.

Question 10

In Scrum is no place for managers.

Accepted Answer

The Scrum Guide doesn’t discuss managers. But indirectly they are mentioned. They are key stakeholders of the Scrum Teams.

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There is no place for managers in Scrum. The word “manager” shows up exactly zero times in the Scrum Guide.

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