In this post, we will be sharing the Day 2 live session review with the FAQs of Scrum Master Certification Day 2 Training which will help you in understanding some basics of Scrum, Scrum values & frameworks and concepts of sprints.
The previous week, In Day 1 Live Session, we have covered the basic concepts of Scrum Scrum Master Certification which will help you in understanding some basic concepts of Agile & Scrum.
So, here we discuss some Q/A’s asked during the Live session from Module 2: Scrum Overview.
Scrum
Scrum is a process or a framework that helps generate adaptive solutions for modern world complex problems and deliver the best value product. It is a journey where the team members are cherished for their success at various tasks (projects), their failures are highlighted to improve, and they learn through experiences. Hence the entire team works on a particular task by considering the scrum methodologies to develop a better product.
Scrum Pillars
Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking.
Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimize predictability and to control risk. It engages groups of people who collectively have all the skills and expertise to do the work and share or acquire such skills as needed.
Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint. These events work because they implement the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Q 1: What do you understand by the terms empiricism and lean thinking?
Ans: Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed. In simple words it means learning by doing.
Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.
Q 2: What is Empirical Process Control in Scrum?
Ans: Empiricism refers to work that’s based on facts, experiences, evidence, observations, and experimentation. It is established and followed in Scrum to ensure project progress and interpretation is based on facts of observations. It relies on transparency, inspection, and adaption.
The mindset of the team and the shift in thought process and culture are essential to achieve the agility required by the organization.
Q 3: Explain the empirical scrum pillars in detail?
Ans: The pillars are Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. These pillars form the basis of Scrum.
- Transparency: This pillar implies that the emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. With Scrum, important decisions are based on the perceived state of its three formal artefacts. Artefacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish the value and increase risk.
Transparency enables inspection. Inspection without transparency is misleading and wasteful. - Inspection: The Scrum artefacts and the progress toward agreed goals must be inspected frequently and diligently to detect potentially undesirable variances or problems. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.
An inspection enables adaptation. Inspection without adaptation is considered pointless. Scrum events are designed to provoke change. - Adaptation: If any aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits or if the resulting product is unacceptable, the process being applied or the materials being produced must be adjusted. The adjustment must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.
Adaptation becomes more difficult when the people involved are not empowered or self-managing. A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection.
Also Check: Our blog post on Agile SDLC.
Scrum Values
Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living five values:
- Commitment
- Focus
- Openness
- Respect
- Courage
Q 4: How does these five scrum values help the scrum team in achieving their goals?
Ans: These scrum values give direction to the Scrum Team with regard to their work, actions, and behavior. The decisions that are made, the steps taken, and the way Scrum is used should reinforce these values, not diminish or undermine them. The Scrum Team members learn and explore the values as they work with the Scrum events and artifacts. When these values are embodied by the Scrum Team and the people they work with, the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life building trust.
Scrum Team
The fundamental unit of Scrum is a small team of people, a Scrum Team. The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. Within a Scrum Team, there are no sub-teams or hierarchies. It is a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal.
Q 5: What is the role of the scrum team?
Ans: The Scrum Team is responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, verification, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required. They are structured and empowered by the organization to manage their own work. Working in Sprints at a sustainable pace improves the Scrum Team’s focus and consistency.
The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint. Scrum defines three specific accountabilities within the Scrum Team: the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master.
Q 6: What is the role of a product owner?
Ans: The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. This process may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.
The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:
- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal
- Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items
- Ordering Product Backlog items
- Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood
Q 7: What does the development team do?
Ans: Developers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint.
The specific skills needed by the Developers are often broad and will vary with the domain of work. However, the Developers are always accountable for:
- Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog
- Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done (DoD)
- Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal
- Holding each other accountable as professionals
Q 8: What is the role of a scrum master?
Ans: The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. They do this by enabling the Scrum Team to improve its practices, within the Scrum framework.
Scrum Masters are true leaders who serve the Scrum Team and the larger organization.
- Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality
- Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption
- Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work and many more.
You can read about more Scrum Master Roles & Responsibilities in our blog.
Scrum Framework
The Scrum framework consists of the Scrum teams with associated Scrum Roles, Scrum Ceremonies/Events, Scrum Artifacts, and Scrum rules. Each component within this framework has specific grounds and is a key factor to Scrum’s success, whereas the Scrum rules tie the ceremonies, roles, and artifacts together to govern the relationships between them.
These basic elements provide a structure to manage the decisions, risks, actions, and uncertainties that come with building and maintaining a software product. Scrum is deliberately incomplete, in that it goes no further than specifying who is accountable for what, with a basic structure to ask the right questions. Once established, as Scrum team will complete the process by adding the business- and technology-specific processes that make sense for their work. Over time, a mature team will evolve a bespoke process based around the core Scrum framework that is as efficient and effective as their skills and imaginations allow.
Concept of Sprint
Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value.
They are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
All the work necessary to achieve the Product Goal, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, happen within Sprints.
Q 9: What do you mean by timeboxing in Scrum? When can a Sprint be cancelled and by whom?
Ans: Timeboxing refers to allocating a specific amount of time to a specific activity. A timebox is a time measurement unit. A timebox should be no more than 15 minutes long. Before the Sprint timebox limit expires, a Sprint can be cancelled. The sprint can only be cancelled by the Product Owner.
Q 10: What is the difference between Sprint and Iteration in Scrum?
Ans: Iteration: It is terminology used to define a single development cycle in general agile methods. It is a common term used in the iterative and incremental development process.
Sprint: It is used to define one development cycle or iterative step in a specialized agile methodology referred to as Scrum. Sprint is scrum specific, and not all forms of iterations are Sprints.
Quiz Time (Sample Exam Questions)!
Ques: Scrum Master is responsible for leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption – True or False?
A. True
B. False
Comment with your answer & we will tell you if you are correct or not!
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