SCRUM Professional Product Owner Cards (Work in Progress) Questions with Answers
What two things best help the Product Owner manage the value of a
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- Setting value on individual Product Backlog Items using Value Poker
- Devising a formula for a neutral calculation of value
- The order of the Product Backlog
- Validating assumptions of value through frequent releases - CORRECT ANSWER - The order of the Product Backlog
- Validating assumptions of value through frequent releases
The Product Owner manages Product Backlog against the assumption that value will be generated. Indications of value on the Product Backlog are useful but are only a prediction until validated against the users and the market.
A Scrum Team can have an exclusive first Sprint to prepare Product Backlog, which is the sole outcome from that Sprint.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
A Scrum Team can initially work outside the Scrum Sprints, to create and refine a just enough Product Backlog so that the first Sprint can start ater that. However, this initial effort should not be names as a Sprint. Also, it should only take minimal time in terms of few days.
While a Product Backlog Item can be re-estimated, reordered, modified, they can never be removed from Product Backlog
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
A Product Backlog Item, if discoverd as very low in value and not relevant, needs to be removed. Purging the unnecessary items adtually helps to reduce the complexity of Product Backlog. Also, the "done" items are continuously removed as well.
Product Owner can invite the stakeholders to the Backlog Refinement sessions.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER True
A Scrum Team noticed that they needed to create additional artifact such as User Interface mark-ups to better explain a product feature. They should NOT do this since Scrum Teams capture the product needs / features only in Product Backlog.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
While the Product Backlog articulates all that is needed for a product, Scrum Teams can create additional artifacts to explain Product Backlog items is such things add value.
When the teams estimate the Product Backlog Items, they only consider the functional need of that Product Backlog Item to arrive at the size.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
A team considers both functional and non-functional needs of the Product Backlog Items to estimate its size. The non-functional needs are typically expressed by Definition of "Done". they also consider any dependencies and integration required between the items.
Agile Product Development recommends
- Release planning of fully developed Product
- Quaterly releases
- Early and frequent release of usable increments - CORRECT ANSWER Early and frequent release of usable increments
Early and frequent release provides more opportunities for valuable feedback. Quarterly release cycle is a good practice but not mandated by Scrum. Scrum encourages much shorter releases.
Pick the true statements
- Product Backlog increases transparency
- It is essential to look at both Sprint Backlog and the Procut Backlog to understand what work is identified for the Product
- Product Backlog only contains the functional requirements of the Product
- Product Backlog existas as long as the Product exists - CORRECT ANSWER - Product Backlog increases transparency
- Product Backlog existas as long as the Product exists
It is enough to look at Product Backlog to understand what is identified for the product. A Product Backlog can contain initiatives, functional and non-functional needs, enhancements, fixes, ideas, and any other product needs.
How could the Product Owner reduce the potential waste?
- By deferring the decision to last actionable moment - like not detailing the product needs until they are closer for consideration
- By removing one team member as the team increases productivity
- By working with the Scrum Master and identifying what kind of technical documents are not required - CORRECT ANSWER By deferring the decision to last actionable moment - like not detailing the product needs until they are closer for consideration
Describing all the Product Backlog Items in full detail early could lead to potential waste.
For the Product Backlog Refinement act, the Scrum Team needs to define a recurring pre-set time every week outside the current working hours of Development Team.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
This is an ongoing act that happens within the hours of current Sprint, for refining the Product Backlog for upcoming Sprints. The time can be mutually discussed and agreed by Product Owner and the Development Team. Usually it does not take more than 10% capacity of Development Team. There is no separate event outside the Sprint like Sprint zero for Backlog Refinement.
Pick the correct statement. Before the Sprint Planning
- Team must have a Definition of "Done" formally approved by Product Owner
- Product Backlog Items must be refined with complete acceptance criteria before they are chosen for Sprint
- Completed user stories must be posted on the Scrum Board
- None of the above - CORRECT ANSWER None of the above
Definition of "Done" doesn't need Product Owner approval. User stories and acceptance criteria are good practices but not mandatory part of Scrum.
How much refinement is required for a Product Backlog Item? Choose two answers.
- as much as required for the Product Owner and the stakeholders
- until they are transparent enough to clearly understand the details and estimate
- they are small enough for the Development Team so that they can be "Done" within a Sprint
- until every story has detailed acceptance criteria clear enough for testers
- until the work units require an effort of a day or less - CORRECT ANSWER - until they are transparent enough to clearly understand the details and estimate
- they are small enough for the Development Team so that they can be "Done" within a Sprint
A Product Backlog Item must be decomposed to "Ready" state where it becomes small enough to be "Done" within a Sprint.
Which of the following statements is not correct?
- Only the people who perform the work can finalize the estimate of Product Backlog Items
- Product Owner always orders the Product Backlog Items only based on the value of each individual item compared to another item.
- Multiple Development Teams working for the same product should have only one common Product Backlog
- A Scrum master can author a Product Backlog Item for Product Owner's consideration
- Development Team finalizes the estimate - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner always orders the Product Backlog Items only based on the value of each individual item compared to another item.
The Product Owner is the ultimate authority of finalizing what needs to be added to Product Backlog Items. However, they can have others provide them with suggestions. So, a Scrum Master can always author an item for Product Owner's considerations. Product Owner strives to maximize the collective value of the Product an the Development Team's work. To achieve that, they can choose to follow any approprate logic for ordering. It need not always be the individal business value.
Pick two answers. Non-functional requirements of the product such as performance, security, etc., can be captured by ...
- Writing a separate document capturing the requirements and add as appendix to Product Backlog
- Adding them to Product Backlog with Product Owner's consent and collaborate to estimate and order them
- Adding them to Definition of "Done" and make the Product Owner aware of them
- Waiting until the decision of Product Owner to release the Increment. Then, build the non-functional requirements for stabilization - CORRECT ANSWER - Adding them to Product Backlog with Product Owner's consent and collaborate to estimate and order them
- Adding them to Definition of "Done" and make the Product Owner aware of them
A Product Owner is also knowledgable on technology. In addition to product requirements, they also impose some technical conditions that the product should meet. These conditions must be added to
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Definition of "Done" - CORRECT ANSWER Definition of "Done"
Every Product Backlog item showuld be about the product need that carries business value. The condition that product Owner brings here is about technical constraint. So, it should be added to the Definition of "Done"
Who makes the decision to fund the next Sprint?
- Project Sponsor
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Product Owner
- Product Manager - CORRECT ANSWER Product Owner
A Product Owner
- directs the Development Team
- controls the sCrum process
- guides the business analysts
- controls the project
- optimizes the value of Development Team's work - CORRECT ANSWER optimizes the value of Development Team's work
A Product Owner maximizes the value of the product and optimizes the values of Development Team's work. Product Owner achievs this by managing the Product Backlog.
A Product Owner cannot send a representative (delegate) to the Sprint Review.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER True
A Product Owner though they are accountable for Product Backlog, they can delegate many of the activities around Product Backlog Managements, such as writing items, ordering them, etc. However, they cannot delegate their participation in Scrum events.
Choose two true statements
- Development Team can't act on directions from anyone other than the Product Manager
- Product Owner's decisions are visible in the Sprin Backlog content
- Product users are the most important stakeholders
- The utmoste priority of the Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product - CORRECT ANSWER - Product users are the most important stakeholders
- The utmoste priority of the Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product
The Scrum Team gathers for Sprint Planning meeting. Teh Product Owner has some stories but the team finds that stories do not provide enough information to make forecast. The immediate next best thing to do is
- The Scrum Master cancels the Sprint
- The Development Team proceeds with starting with whatever is known
- The Development Team meakes it transparent that they cannot make a forecast
- The Scrum Team discusses the root cause in the retrospective - CORRECT ANSWER The Development Team meakes it transparent that they cannot make a forecast.
For the Sprint to begin, theare are no pre-conditions except a Scrum Team and a Product Backlog with enough business ideas for the Sprint. It is good practice to have sufficient number of Product Backlog items "Ready" to be selected for the Sprint. If Product Backlog is not clear at Sprint Planning, the Development Team will hav edifficulty creating a forecast of th Sprint work. The team needs to make it transparent and works with Product Owner to refine them within the Sprint Planning. As soon as possible, Scrum Master can also coach the Product owner on imporving this, for example by having regular "backlog refinement sessions". Discussing the root cause in the retrospective is also correct, but the question asks about the "immediate next" step.
Under this topic of the Sprint Planning, the Development Team is more active in planning and Product Owner is mostly observing of clarifying
- Topic One
- Topic Two
- Topic Three - CORRECT ANSWER Topic Two: How
Topic One: What, Topic Three: not existing
In topic two, the Development Team puts together a plan of how to achieve the Scope of the Sprint. It primarily involves deriving work tasks. As an owner who is going to own and perform theses tasks, this team is more active during topic two.
After Sprint Planning, Product Owner finds that it makes sense to develop a new functionality.
- Development Team will add that to the Sprint Backlog
- Development Team can review that for selection in the next Sprint.
- Development Team can swap an existing functionality for the new functionality. - CORRECT ANSWER - Development Team can review that for selection in the next Sprint.
Product Owner can't introduce new functionality in the middle of the Sprint unless the Development Team gets more capacity to work and they mutually agree to take this in. After Product Owner adding the new functionality and ordering it to be on the top of the Product Backlog, the Development Team can review that for selection in next Sprint Planning.
A Scrum Team is at the end of a sprint. the next Sprint starts
- Only after the product Increment is released to production.
- Only after the Retrospective event of the current Sprint.
- Only after the team for next Sprint is onboarded.
- Only after the Sprint Planning. - CORRECT ANSWER - Only after the Retrospective event of the current Sprint.
The Product Owner may choose to release to production but not mandatory. The same team will continue to next Sprint. Sprint Planning is the first event of the Sprint. Next Sprint starts immediately after the current Sprint end, i.e. the Retrospective.
In a Retrospective, a Scrum Team decides to revise the Sprint length. Pick three true statements about Sprint length.
- Sprint length can extend as long as required to complete all the work identified in Sprint Backlog.
- It is better to have Sprints of consistent length through the Scrum journey.
- The new Sprint length needs to be agreed by Product Owner.
- Sprint can have a maximum duration of one month. - CORRECT ANSWER - It is better to have Sprints of consistent length through the Scrum journey.
- The new Sprint length needs to be agreed by Product Owner.
- Sprint can have a maximum duration of one month.
The Product Owner needs to ensure that it is short enough to limit business risks and also short enough so the team can synchronize the development work with other business events. Please note that the finalized Sprint length cannot belonger than 1 calendar month.
The only time when a Scrum Team can meet stakeholders is Sprint Review.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False
In the middle of the Sprint, a Development Team finds that they have more room for additional work. They decide to change the Sprint Backlog by adding few more backlog items from the Product Backlog. Who should be present to decide the additional work and accordingly modify the Sprint Backlog?
- Senior members of the Development Team
- Scrum Master
- Entire Development Team
- Product Owner
- Scrum Team - CORRECT ANSWER Entire Development Team
Product Owner
Nobody can change the Sprint Backlog other than the Development Team. So Development Team should be present. Product Owner is pesponsible for optimizing the value of the Development Team's work and is needed to explain the content of the Product Backlog, and give mutual consent on the next work. So the Product Owner also needs to be present.
This shows the trend of remaining effort in the Product Backlog at the end of sprints.
- Burn-up
- Burn-down
- Burn-trend - CORRECT ANSWER Burn-down
Burn-down is a trend line connecting data points of remaining effort of Product Backlog at the end of each completed Sprint. By extending the burn-down line to the x-axis, we can forecast when the project is likely to finish - assuming effort and velocity stay stable.
To verify the success of a product, what should be measured?
- ROI
- TCO
- Delivery of planned scope
- Customer Satisfaction - CORRECT ANSWER - ROI
- TCO
- Customer Satisfaction
Just delivering the planned scope may not indicate a product success, unless it impacts the real value measures.
Product Owner needs to approve the Definition of "Done".
- Yes
- Yes, but only when it is newly defined
- No - CORRECT ANSWER No.
Development Team needs to follow any existing definition of "Done" defined by the development organization. If nothing is available, Development Team must create one. The Product Owner's input should be considered, but no approval is necessary.
Product Owner can use these measures to track the true value being delivered.
- Code Quality
- Customer Satisfaction
- Test Automation
- Cycle Time - CORRECT ANSWER - Customer Satisfaction
- Cycle Time
The EbMgt Guide says: Monitoring only the direct use of practices does not provide the best evidence of their effectiveness.
When there are multiple Development Teams working on the same product
- they should collocate togehter and integrate their changes every day under the supervision of Scrum Master
- they should mutually define their Definition of "Done" so their combined work will be potentially releasable
- they should ask the common quality guidance from the Product Owner.
- they should define a Definition of "Done" of their own, and make their standerds transparent to each other - CORRECT ANSWER - they should mutually define their Definition of "Done" so their combined work will be potentially releasable
Each Development Team needs to mutually define their Definition of "Done" so their combined work will be potentially releasable.
What measures will help the Product Owner to check if the product delivers value?
- Total cost of the product throughout its life
- Productivity of the Development Team
- The ease of absorption of new releases for the customers
- Customer Satisfaction
- On time completion of design - CORRECT ANSWER - Total cost f the product throughout its life
- The ease of absorption of new releases for the customers
- Customer Satisfaction
Direct measures of product value:
Product Cost Ratio resp. Total Cost of Ownership
Installed version index
usage index (amount of functionality being used)
customer feedback
To maximize the value, Product Owner must order the Product Backlog based on the value of the Product Backlog items.
- True
- False - CORRECT ANSWER False.
It is not necessary to order based on the value of Product Backlog Items. Product Owner can consider many other parameters such as risk, dependencies between product Backlog Items, even the dependencies to other products, etc. such that the overall value of Development Team's work is optimized. [Show Less]