Product owner and Nexus Exam 57 Questions with Verified Answers
How frequently the Product Owner should communicate and re-iterate his product vision
... [Show More] to the Scrum Team and the Key Stakeholders? - CORRECT ANSWER Early and often
What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner? - CORRECT ANSWER Product Value Maximizer
Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder Involvement
Product Marketplace Expert
How does the Product Owner communicate his marketplace knowledge to the Scrum Team (select three)? - CORRECT ANSWER Sprint Reviews
Product Backlog Refinement
Daily ad hoc interactions
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? - CORRECT ANSWER Make sure the dependency is visible in the Product Backlog and the Development Team has enough independent Items for the next Sprint.
Who should do the legwork of gathering the marketplace data for the Product Owner? - CORRECT ANSWER It does not matter who does the legwork
What technique should be used for representing Product Backlog Items? - CORRECT ANSWER Any technique, even a mix of several techniques
User stories are a fairly common technique for representing Product Backlog Items, but other techniques can be used instead. For instance, a team can use scenarios, use cases, acceptance tests, etc. The Product Backlog might even contain a heterogeneous mix of the above.
The Product Owner should work with the rest of the Scrum Team on choosing and optimizing the techniques used to represent Product Backlog Items.
Which KVA categories should the Product Owner consider to measure and track the creation and delivery of value to the market place (select three)? - CORRECT ANSWER Current Value
Time-to-Market
Ability to Innovate
Product Backlog Refinement ...
Select the three most applicable sentence endings. - CORRECT ANSWER Is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to Product Backlog items
Is an ongoing process
Takes no more than 10% of the capacity of the Development Team
How can the Product Owner bring his product vision to life (select 3)? - CORRECT ANSWER Articulating the product vision to the Scrum Team and the Key Stakeholders early and often
Via the Product Backlog and iterating towards that vision every Sprint
Utilizing the underlying empirical product planning features of Scrum
How frequently product releases should occur? - CORRECT ANSWER Frequently enough to eliminate the risk that the product's value will get out of line with the marketplace
Who has the "last say" on the order of items in the Product Backlog? - CORRECT ANSWER The Product Owner
Who identifies the Key Stakeholders for the Product? - CORRECT ANSWER The Product Owner
When something about Scrum frustrates the Product Owner, the PO can delegate some responsibilities to the Scrum Master. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Every Product Backlog Item should be created by the Product Owner personally and only then the Development Team can add details to it at the PO's discretion. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Select the two focus areas that are not considered in executing Value Driven Development by the Product Owner. - CORRECT ANSWER Coach of the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
Remover of impediments to the Development Team's progress
In executing Value Driven Development, the Product Owner must consider the focus areas of:
Product Value Maximizer
Product Visionary
Product Marketplace Expert
Product Release Decision Maker
Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder Involvement
Other Product Owner role Considerations
How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner? Select the three most appropriate answers. - CORRECT ANSWER Understanding product planning in an empirical environment
Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed
The Sprint Review is just a demo of the Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint. Do you agree? - CORRECT ANSWER No, the Sprint Review contains much more activities
No. The Sprint Review contains much more activities to inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog.
For example:
The Product Owner also explains what has not been "Done";
The entire group collaborates on what to do next, so that the Sprint Review provides valuable input to subsequent Sprint Planning;
Review of the timeline, budget, potential capabilities, and marketplace for the next anticipated releases of functionality.
Product Backlog Refinement practice focuses on Items for upcoming Sprints, not the current Sprint in progress. True or false? - CORRECT ANSWER True
True. Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. The Items in the current Sprint are no longer on the Product Backlog, because they are now on the Sprint Backlog.
However, it is certainly fine for the Product Owner to add detail and clarification to the current Sprint's work as well.
What two attributes are optional for a Product Backlog Item? - CORRECT ANSWER Test descriptions that will prove PB Item completeness when "Done"
Dependencies
Product Backlog items have the attributes of a description, order, estimate, and value. Product Backlog items often include test descriptions that will prove its completeness when "Done".
Who is allowed to tell the Development Team to work from a set of requirements? - CORRECT ANSWER The Product Owner
What factors should be considered by the Product Owner in the release decision (select four)? - CORRECT ANSWER The costs and benefits of the upgrade
The customers that will be constrained by the new release
The risk that the product's value can get out of line with the marketplace
Can customers actually absorb the new release?
Who are the typical Key Stakeholders (select three)? - CORRECT ANSWER The people responsible for making the funding decisions for the product development effort
The people responsible for paying to use the product
The human people who actually use the product under development
According to the Scrum Glossary, a stakeholder is "a person external to the Scrum Team with a specific interest in and knowledge of a product that is required for incremental discovery. Represented by the Product Owner and actively engaged with the Scrum Team at Sprint Review."
Typically, they fall into one of three broad categories:
The Users - The human people who actually use the product under development
The External Customers - The people responsible for paying to use the product
The Internal Customers - The people responsible for making the funding decisions for the product development effort
If multiple Stakeholders have varied interests in the product and different viewpoints what is the best strategy for the Product Owner? - CORRECT ANSWER Do an intelligent balancing of interests and try to maximize the value of the Product as a whole
Inherent in the role of facilitating key stakeholder involvement is weighing and balancing the (likely) differing viewpoints of multiple stakeholders who might have varied interests in the product. The Product Owner's responsibility is to maximize the value of the product as a whole, and this will involve an intelligent balancing of interests.
Who is the leader in terms of getting feedback from the Key Stakeholders in the Sprint Review? - CORRECT ANSWER The Product Owner
Once the Product Owner gained his Product Vision and defined the tactics of bringing this vision to life, it is a bad idea to change them before the next Product Release. - CORRECT ANSWER False
The PO should never be afraid to change the vision or tactics based on marketplace changes. Being able to strategically re-pivot and capture value in new and different ways is one of the key benefits of an Agile mindset.
The Product Owner wants to apply some non-functional requirements to the Product. What is the best way to proceed? - CORRECT ANSWER Add the non-functional requirements to the DoD and check every Increment against these criteria
What are the characteristics of a Product Backlog Item that is "Ready" for selection in a Sprint Planning? Select three. - CORRECT ANSWER Well refined
Somewhere at the top of the Product Backlog
Can be "Done" within one Sprint
Select the three best options to finish the sentence below.
Technical debt ... - CORRECT ANSWER reflects some extra development work
compromises long-term quality of the Product
is a real risk which can genuinely be incurred
Are there some special requirements to the Product Backlog before Nexus Sprint Planning? - CORRECT ANSWER The Product Backlog should be adequately refined with dependencies identified and removed or minimized
The Nexus Process Flow assumes the following order of events: - CORRECT ANSWER Product Backlog Refinement
Nexus Sprint Planning
Nexus Daily Scrum
Nexus Sprint Review
Nexus Sprint Retrospective
When is the Scrum Team, responsible for implementing a piece of functionality, usually identified? - CORRECT ANSWER During Product Backlog Refinement
In the process of Product Backlog Refinement items are refined into thinly sliced pieces of functionality and the team likely to do the work is usually identified.
Refinement of the Product Backlog at scale serves a dual purpose. It helps the Scrum Teams forecast which team will deliver which Product Backlog items, and it identifies dependencies across those teams.
What is the purpose of the Nexus Sprint Backlog? - CORRECT ANSWER To highlight dependencies and the flow of work during the Sprint.
A Nexus Sprint Backlog is the composite of all Product Backlog items from the Sprint Backlogs of the individual Scrum Teams. It is used to highlight dependencies and the flow of work during the Sprint. It is updated at least daily, often as part of the Nexus Daily Scrum.
What are the best ways to improve productivity of all Scrum teams? Choose three. - CORRECT ANSWER Reduce overlapping of requirements
Appropriately distribute domain knowledge between the Scrum Teams
Remove or minimize dependencies of software and test artifacts
Who are the members of the Nexus Integration Team? - CORRECT ANSWER One or more professionals who are skilled in the use of tools, various practices, and the general field of systems engineering
The Product Owner
A Scrum Master
Who participates in the Nexus Daily Scrum? Select all applicable items. - CORRECT ANSWER Only appropriate representatives from individual Scrum Development Teams
What does the Nexus framework consist of? Select four. - CORRECT ANSWER Artifacts
Events
Rules
Roles
When is the Nexus Sprint Planning complete? - CORRECT ANSWER When each Scrum Team has finished their individual Sprint Planning events
What are the subjects of Nexus Sprint Retrospective? Select four. - CORRECT ANSWER Was the software successfully built, tested, and deployed often enough?
Were all artifacts frequently and successfully integrated?
Did the Nexus generate technical debt?
Was any work left undone?
Choose the three best options to finish the sentence below:
The Nexus Integration Team consists of professionals who ... - CORRECT ANSWER are skilled in the use of tools, various practices, and the general field of systems engineering.
ensure the Scrum Teams within the Nexus understand and implement the practices and tools needed to detect dependencies, and frequently integrate all artifacts.
coaches the individual Scrum Teams on the necessary development, infrastructural, or architectural standards required by the organization to ensure the development of quality Integrated Increments.
What are the main questions of the Nexus Daily Scrum? Select three. - CORRECT ANSWER Was the previous day's work successfully integrated? If not, why not?
What new dependencies have been identified?
What information needs to be shared across teams in the Nexus?
Is it possible implementing only parts of Nexus? - CORRECT ANSWER Yes, implementing only parts of Nexus is possible, but the result is not Nexus.
How many Sprint Backlogs are used in Nexus framework? Select the most applicable answer. - CORRECT ANSWER Each Scrum Team has own Sprint Backlog. All the items from these backlogs compose the single Nexus Sprint Backlog.
Can Scrum Teams use own Definition of Done within a Nexus? - CORRECT ANSWER Yes, they can, but the criteria should be more rigorous than agreed for the Increment.
How many Nexus/Sprint review meetings are necessary? - CORRECT ANSWER One Nexus Sprint Review replaces all individual Scrum Team Sprint Reviews
How does Nexus relate to Scrum? - CORRECT ANSWER Nexus uses Scrum as its building block
May the members of the Nexus Integration Team also work on the Scrum Teams in that Nexus? - CORRECT ANSWER Yes, but priority must be given to the work for the Nexus Integration Team
What is the main difference between Nexus and Scrum frameworks? - CORRECT ANSWER Nexus pays more attention to dependencies and interoperation between Scrum Teams
What is the order of the Nexus Sprint Retrospective events? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. The first part is an opportunity for appropriate representatives from across a Nexus to meet and identify issues that have impacted more than a single team. The purpose is to make shared issues transparent to all Scrum Teams.
2. The second part consists of each Scrum Team holding their own Sprint Retrospective as described in the Scrum framework. They can use issues raised from the first part of the Nexus Retrospective as input to their team discussions. The individual Scrum Teams should form actions to address these issues during their individual Scrum Team Sprint Retrospectives.
3. The final, third part is an opportunity for appropriate representatives from the Scrum Teams to meet again and agree on how to visualize and track the identified actions. This allows the Nexus as a whole to adapt.
What are the purposes of the Nexus Sprint Planning? Select three. - CORRECT ANSWER The sequence of work across teams is adjusted
The Nexus Sprint Goal is formulated
Cross team dependencies are detected
Who is responsible for a definition of "Done" that can be applied to the Integrated Increment? - CORRECT ANSWER The Nexus Integration Team
How do the events in Nexus framework relate to the events in Scrum framework? - CORRECT ANSWER Nexus events augment the regular Scrum events
Is there such a thing as the Nexus Sprint Goal? - CORRECT ANSWER Yes. It is the sum of all the work and Sprint Goals of the Scrum Teams within the Nexus.
How many Product Backlogs are used in Nexus framework? - CORRECT ANSWER Single Product Backlog for all Scrum Teams
What are three main kinds of dependencies that arise between the work of multiple Scrum teams? - CORRECT ANSWER Requirements
Domain knowledge
software and test artifacts
What are the main purposes of Product Backlog Refinement at scale? Select two. - CORRECT ANSWER Identifying dependencies across the teams
Forecasting which team will deliver which Product Backlog items
What is the Integrated Increment? - CORRECT ANSWER It represents the sum of all integrated work completed by a Nexus.
What are the responsibilities of the Nexus Integration Team? - CORRECT ANSWER Coordinate, coach, and supervise the application of Nexus and the operation of Scrum so the best outcomes are derived [Show Less]