In Scrum, who is responsible for determining how much work can be done
each Sprint?
1 The Developers
2 The Product Managers
3 The ScrumMaster
4 The Product Owner
5 The Development Lead ANS✔✔ 1 The Developers
What does a Scrum Team attempt to do during their first Sprint?
1 Create a definitely sellable product increment
2 Focus only on requirements analysis, architecture, and infrastructure
3 Focus on assembling the Product Backlog
4 Create an Increment of usable, releasable product ANS✔✔ 4 Create an
Increment of usable, releasable product
What, most importantly, must the ScrumMaster NOT do?
1 Ask open-ended questions
2 Manage development
3 Share uncomfortable observations
4 Highlight impediments ANS✔✔ 2 Manage development
, Solution 2024/2025
Pepper
When does a Sprint end?
1 When all planned Product Backlog Items meet their Definition of Done
2 When the timebox expires.
3 It depends.
44 When all Sprint tasks are completed. ANS✔✔ 2 When the timebox
expires.
The quantity of work an experienced, mature team of Developers can do
each Sprint should be ultimately based on:
1 collective gut feel (team intuition).
2 the same number of backlog items as there are developers, one per team
member.
3 (available team person-hours x (load factor + contingency factor)) - task
hours.
4 available team hours minus task hours.
5 the opinion of the developer wearing the largest T-shirt size. ANS✔✔ 1
collective gut feel (team intuition).
Who is responsible for testing?
1 The QA team
2 Developers
3 The Product Owner
4 Test engineers
5 The QA Manager ANS✔✔ 2 Developers
, Solution 2024/2025
Pepper
Why have we gotten used to saying "resources" when we really mean
people?
1 Human collaborative problem-solving ability can be objectively quantified
and standardized in the same manner as physical resources like petroleum,
water, and lumber.
2 Programmers do not differ significantly in skill, perspective, or ability and
therefore can be treated as equivalent cogs in a machine.
3 We've inherited a 19th century concept of human labor efficiency and
misapplied it to the 21st century problem of collaborative product
development.
4 Software development is unskilled labor that is reducible to the cheapest
cost per unit of time.
5 We sound more impressive to upper management if we speak in
abstractions instead of plain language. ANS✔✔ 3 We've inherited a 19th
century concept of human labor efficiency and misapplied it to the 21st
century problem of collaborative product development.
Especially in recent years, product development is increasingly becoming...
1 a form of construction.
2 a form of manufacturing.
3 a form of knowledge creation. ANS✔✔ 3 a form of knowledge creation.
Muscle memory...
1 affects only bodybuilders.
2 affects our thinking and behavior even when we're not aware of it.
3 might've caused you to answer the previous question incorrectly.
4 helps sleepwalkers find the bathroom at night.
5 Answers 2 and 3 ANS✔✔ 5 Answers 2 and 3
, Solution 2024/2025
Pepper
Who is accountable for Product Backlog management?
1 No one party is accountable. It's done by consensus
2 The stakeholders, with guidance from the ScrumMaster
3 The Product Manager
4 The Product Owner
5 The ScrumMaster, with guidance from the Developers
6 The Developers, with guidance from the ScrumMaster. ANS✔✔ 4 The
Product Owner
Who manages the Developers?
1 The Team Lead appointed by the ScrumMaster
2 The Product Owner
3 The Developers
4 The Functional Manager
5 The Project Managers
6 The ScrumMaster ANS✔✔ 3 The Developers
Who works on Sprint Backlog Items to create the Increment?
1 All Developers collectively during the Sprint.
2 The Developer who wrote and estimated the PBI during Backlog
Refinement.
3 The Developers with the most unallocated capacity.
4 Any Developer who isn't busy with other PBIs.
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