Backlog Refinement

1. Who is the owner and creator of Definition of Ready?

• Scrum Master

• Product Owner

• Developers

• Scrum Team

2. What is NOT an appropriate answer to the question of why a Product Vision is important?

• The Product Vision forms the basis for building the first Product Backlog

• The Product Owner can only act on the basis of the Product Vision

• It is only possible to talk to the stakeholders about their expectations in a targeted way on the basis of the Product Vision

• The Product Vision serves for the long-term alignment of product development and is therefore the guiding principle on which decisions should also be based in the long term

3. What could be a source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product?

• The Product Backlog

• The CEO of the Organization

• The Key Stakeholders

4. Who has the “last say” on the order of items in the Product Backlog?

• The Development Team

• The Product Owner and The Scrum Master

• The Product Owner

5. What are Product Backlog features? Select three.

• It is never complete

• It is dynamic

• As long as a product exists, its Product Backlog also exists

• When the final version of a product is rolled out, its Product Backlog is dismissed

• A Product Backlog could be closed when it contains no items to include into the next Sprint

6. How does the Product Owner communicate his marketplace knowledge to the Scrum Team? Select three

• Product Backlog Refinement

• Daily ad hoc interactions

• Sprint Retrospectives

• Daily Scrums

• Sprint Reviews

7. Who is allowed to make changes in the Product Backlog? Select two

• The Key Stakeholders

• Anyone

• The Development Team, but with permission of the Product Owner

• The Scrum Master

• The Product Owner

8. Product Backlog Refinement …Select the three most applicable sentence endings

• Usually happens 2-4 times in dependency of the Sprint length

• Is an ongoing process

• Usually takes no more than 10% of the capacity of the Development Team

• Answers the question: how will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved

• Is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to Product Backlog items

9. A Development Team is waiting for a specific software component that they need to integrate and use. The component should be ready in a month.The Backlog Items with highest priorities depend on this specific component.What should the Product Owner do?

• Remove the dependent Items from the Product Backlog and put them in a special wait list. When the dependency is resolved, the Items should be returned back

• Nothing. The Product Backlog already has the most valuable items at the top. The Development Team cannot proceed further until the dependency is resolved

• Make sure the dependency is visible in the Product Backlog and the Development Team has enough independent Items for the next Sprint

• Transfer the dependent Items to the Integration Team

10. What technique should be used for representing Product Backlog Items?

• Use Cases

• User Stories

• Acceptance Tests

• Any technique, even a mix of several techniques

• Scenarios