The Scrum team

Question 1

What does the scrum team consist of?

Answer 1

Product owner
Scrum master
Development team

Question 2

What are 2 key attributes of scrum teams?

Answer 2

Self Organizing

Cross-Functional

Question 3

What is a self organizing team?

Answer 3

Teams that choose how best to accomplish work, rather than being directed

Question 4

What is a cross functional team?

Answer 4

A self sustaining team that has all competences and no external dependencies

Question 5

What does the scrum design aim to accomplish?

Answer 5

Flexibility, creativity, and productivity

Question 6

Why do scrum teams DELIVER PRODUCTS iteratively and incrementally?

Answer 6

1) To maximize opportunities for feedback.

2) A potentially useful version of the product is always available

Question 7

What is the responsibility of the product owner?

Answer 7

1) maximizing value of product and work of development team

2) managing the product backlog

Question 8

How does a product owner manage the product backlog?

Answer 8

• Clearly expressing items /transparency
• ordering items to best achieve goals and missions
• Optimizing the value of the work
• Ensuring visibiliy, transparency and what to work on next
• Ensuring understandability of items

Question 9

Who does the product backlog management?

Answer 9

Either product owner or development team. But the owner remains accountable.

Question 10

Can the product owner be a group?

Answer 10

No. 1 person. Single point of entry. He may represent a group but all goes through him/her.

Question 11

How can stakeholders explicate new functionality?

Answer 11

Through the product owner. The stakeholders MAY NOT directly engage the team. The team MAY NOT work on anything that is not directed by the product owner.

Question 12

What roles does the development team consist of?

Answer 12

Only developers. No other tiles are recognized.

Question 13

What teams does the development team consist of?

Answer 13

None. Next to maybe domains such as testing and business analysis, no work teams are created on activity level.

Question 14

What is the optimal size of the development team and why?

Answer 14

3 to 9
Less than three : decreased interaction and skill constraints
More than nine: Much coordination and complexity

Question 15

Can the product owner and scrum master work as developers?

Answer 15

Yes. They can execute work of the sprint backlog

Question 16

What are responsibilities of the scrum master?

Answer 16

1) Making sure scrum is understood and enacted upon by making sure that the team adheres to theory, practice and rules.
2) Help outside stakeholders to realize which interactions are helpful and which arent.

Question 17

How does the scrum master service the product owner?

Answer 17

1) Techniques for backlog management
2) Helping arrange items
3) Facilitating scrum events

Question 18

How does the scrum master service the development team?

Answer 18

1) Coaching in self organization and cross functionality
2) Helping creating high value products
3) removing process impediments
4) facilitating scrum events
5) coachinig the team in non scrum adoptedenvironments

Question 19

How does the scrum master service the organization?

Answer 19

1) Leading and coaching scrum adoption
2) Helping understanding and enactment
3) change benefit the scrum team
4) Work with other scrum masters to increase effectiveness of scrum application in the organization