Agile Fundamentals - Spini

What are the four categories of Agile Principle?

• • Status, Culture, Team, Organization,

  • and Work Products

• • Priority, Culture, Team, Organization,

  • and Work Products

• • Priority, Culture, Team, Organization,

  • and Work Process

• • Priority, Culture, Team, Methods,

  • and Work Products

Answer explanation

• Divided into four categories

  • Priority

  • Culture

  • Team Organization

  • Work Process

When is a Sprint Retrospective ceremony performed?

• Whenever the team suggests

• Whenever the Product Owner suggests

• At the end of each Sprint

• Whenever needed

• Whenever the Scrum Master suggests

Answer explanation

In Scrum, it is mandatory to conduct all the Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Retrospective.

Sprint Retrospective is a meeting where all the team members sit and retrospect from their current sprint and lay out the action items to improvise for the upcoming sprints. For the very same reason, Sprint Retrospective is conducted at the end of each Sprint.

When can a Sprint be canceled?

• Sprint can never be canceled

• When Development is unable to complete the work

• Information required to start the development is not available

• The Sprint items are no longer needed

• Whenever the Product Owner says

Answer explanation

The power to cancel the Sprint lies only with the Product Owner. He/She can call to cancel an ongoing Sprint when the Sprint Items are no longer required by the business i.e. the items have become obsolete.

 In Scrum, when is a Sprint Over?

• When all the Sprint Backlog tasks are completed

• When the final testing is completed

• When the time box expires

• When the Product Owner suggests

Answer explanation

All the Sprint activities are time boxed including Sprint. Unlike other Sprint activities, Sprint can neither be extended nor shortened.

If for instance, all the items of a Sprint are not completed, the Sprint is still marked over and the remaining item(s) is moved to the Product Backlog from where it can be scheduled to any of the subsequent sprint based on the revised priority. Similarly, the Sprint can never be shortened.

If all the Sprint items are completed before time, the development team is free to pull in the top Product Backlog items and start the development.

What is a Sprint Review?

• Activity to Introspect and Adapt

• Activity to improve Scrum Processes

• Activity to seek approval for the work done

• Activity to plan for the next Sprint

Answer explanation

Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective all the four ceremonies in Scrum are opportunities for inspection and adaptation.  During a Sprint Review, the idea is to inspect and seek feedback from the stakeholders and adapt them.

Who should necessarily attend the Daily Standup meeting?

• The Scrum Team

• The Scrum Team and the Stakeholders

• The Development Team

• The Development Team and the Scrum Master

Answer explanation

The Development Team is necessarily required to attend the Daily Standup meeting every day. Anyone else who wishes to attend the meeting is very much welcome but it is not mandatory to attend it.

Other than the Development Team, whoever is attending the meeting is not allowed to give updates or participate. He can enjoy listening while others are participating. The Scrum Master though can attend the meeting and also facilitate it if he has been requested for the same by the Development Team.

Even the stakeholders can attend the Daily Standup meetings.

All are pillars of Scrum, except?

• Transparency

• Adaption

• Inspection

• Direction

Who is the accountable for the value of the product?

• Tester

• Scrum master

• Product owner

• Developer

Answer explanation

The one accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team

Provides clarity to the team about a product’s vision and goal. All work is derived and prioritized based on the Product Goal.

A formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product.

• Events

• DoD

• Increment

• Backlog

Answer explanation

The Definition of Done is a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product.

A large body of work that can be broken down into a number of smaller stories.

• User Story

• Epics

• Architectural Design

• Functional Requirements

Answer explanation

An epic is a large body of work that can be broken down into a number of smaller stories.