PSM II Block 15 - Certifica2IT

Professional Scrum Master II

Questions Block 15

1. What should a Development Team do with non-functional requirements?

Ensure they are addressed in every Increment.

Assign them to the technical leads on the team.

They will be addressed in the Integration Sprints.

Add them to a separate non-functional requirements list.

2. What would be the responsibilities of a self-organizing Development Team?

Update stakeholders on the daily progress and keep the burn-down chart updated.

Select the Product Backlog items for the Sprint and do the work planned in the Sprint Backlog.

Writing User Stories and reordering the Product Backlog.

Deciding on the value of the product features and value estimations.

3. Scrum promotes self-organization.
Which of these statements would NOT support self-organizing?

The Development Team deciding what work to do in a Sprint.

Removing the need for documentation.

Being a lightweight framework.

Removing titles for Development Team members.

4. How should multiple Scrum Teams, working from the same Product Backlog, select the Product Backlog items their teams plan to work on?

The Product Owner will present the work and the Development Teams will select the items they will work on.

The Product Owner creates separate Product Backlogs for each Development Team.

Each Scrum Team would select an equal number of items.

The Product Owner assigns the work to each team.

The Scrum Team with the highest productivity will select the items first.

5. What would be good ways of creating Development Teams that would support the Scrum values?

Project Managers will allocate individuals to specific teams.

Bring all the developers or existing teams together and let them propose how to organize into the new structure and self-organize into Development Teams.

The operations manager determines the new team structures and assignments.

Direct managers personally re-assign current reports to new teams.

6. Every Development Team should have the competencies and skills needed to deliver a Done Increment in a Sprint.

True

False

7. Which role is responsible for determining when it is most appropriate to update the Sprint Backlog?

The Product Owner

The Development Team

The Scrum Team

The Scrum Master

8. Cross-functional teams are specialized for working on specific system components (e.g. design, database, backend, frontend).

True

False

9. The Scrum values promote Development Teams be cross-functional and have all the skills needed to build a product within the team.
While starting Scrum, what would be the advantages of keeping the existing component teams (e.g. design, database, backend, frontend)?

Component teams would have all the skills needed to focus on their specific technical layer.

Component teams generally have all the skills needed to deliver shippable Increments that add business value.

Because their productivity is already predictable, they can deliver shippable Increments more quickly than a newly formed team.

Because they have been working together for some time, there will be less initial disruption than a newly formed team. As they begin working, they will discover what works best and how to move towards cross-functional teams.

There is less communication overhead than working in feature teams.

10. A key measure of success for the Product Owner is velocity.

True

False