Which of the following are common Product Owner activities during the Sprint?
Work with the stakeholders. Answer questions from the Development Team
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The Product Owner keeps communicating with the stakeholders, creates new items in the Product Backlog, revises the order of items, answers questions and makes sure everyone has the right understanding of items, and checks the completed items with the Development Team to ensure they are complete based on the Definition of Done.
Which 2 of the following are true about the Product Owner?
Can be influenced by a committee. Is accountable for prioritizing the Product Backlog items.
There can be a committee for the product ownership, but only their representative will be called the Product Owner. So, there's only one Product Owner, even when there are multiple teams. This person can be full-time or part-time. One person can have more than one role in Scrum (e.g. both the Product Owner and the Scrum Master). While it's not forbidden, it's not recommended either
Who should know the most about the project performance?
The Product Owner. Measuring the release or project performance is the Product Owner's responsibility. Measuring the Sprint performance is the Development Team's responsibility.
The customer has the final say on the order of Product Backlog items.
FALSE. The decision on the order of items can be influenced by a committee, the customer, or any other stakeholder, but the final say belongs to the Product Owner. This decision should be respected by the whole organization.
Who's responsible for engaging the stakeholders?
The Product Owner. The Product Owner is responsible for engaging them, understanding them, communicating with them and so on.
Scrum does not have a role called "project manager".
True. Scrum doesn't have a project manager role. The project management activities are distributed among the three Scrum roles.
Also, you SHOULD NOT have a project manager role when using Scrum.
All interactions between the stakeholders and the Development Team should be through the Product Owner.
False. Almost always these interactions are going through Product Owner but of course, it is not prohibited to discuss some questions with stakeholders. But those who are wanting to change a Product Backlog item's priority must address the Product Owner.
If it's not possible to complete the Sprint Backlog, who would try to resolve it?
If this situation is happening Product Owner and Development team should discuss how they can resolve issues
Who monitors the remaining work of the Product Backlog?
The Product Owner. At any point in time, the total work remaining to reach a goal can be summed. The Product Owner tracks this total work remaining at least every Sprint Review. The Product Owner compares this amount with work remaining at previous Sprint Reviews to assess progress toward completing projected work by the desired time for the goal. This information is made transparent to all stakeholders.
The Product Owner can ask the developers to order the Product Backlog items instead of him/her.
True.The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog. Product Backlog management includes:
Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;
Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;
Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next;
Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
The Product Owner may do the above work, or have the Development Team do it. However, the Product Owner remains accountable.
What should the Product Owner do in the middle of the Sprint, when the Development Team realises they are not able to finish all the Sprint Backlog items?
As it is the only one method to finish increment the Product Owner should help the developers adjust their work and meet the Sprint Goal
How much time should a Product Owner spend with the team?
The Product Owner should spend as much time as needed with the Development Team to do all their responsibilities
The Product Owner has doubts about the quality of the definition of "Done". What should s/he do?
Increase product quality by adaptation the definition of "Done" in the next Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. During each Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team plans ways to increase product quality by improving work processes or adapting the definition of "Done", if appropriate and not in conflict with a product or organizational standards.
A key measure of success for the Product Owner is velocity.
A key measure of success for the Product Owner is high value product
A company has four products. Which two of the following are acceptable ways of forming Scrum teams?
When there's one product, there should be only one Product Owner, even if the product is large and there are many Development Teams. However, when there are multiple products, there are two options: 1) considering them separate and have a Product Owner for each of them, and 2) have only one Product Owner for all of them and develop them like a larger project to ensure compatibility. [Show Less]