Scrum Framework Roles Flashcards
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What does it mean that the Scrum Team is 'cross-functional'?
Answer: The team has all skills needed to create value each Sprint
Cross-functional means the team collectively has all skills needed to create value each Sprint.
Who is accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness and for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide?
Answer: Scrum Master
The Scrum Master is accountable for the team's effectiveness and for establishing Scrum.
A stakeholder repeatedly interrupts Developers mid-Sprint with new requests. Who should help address this impediment?
Answer: The Scrum Master, by coaching and protecting the team's focus
The Scrum Master helps remove impediments and protects the team's focus.
During Sprint Planning, who is responsible for ensuring the team understands the Product Backlog items well enough to forecast work?
Answer: The Product Owner clarifies items and the Developers do the forecasting
The Product Owner ensures items are understood, and Developers forecast the work they will do.
The Developers are described as 'self-managing.' This primarily means they decide what?
Answer: Who does what, when, and how, within the Sprint
Self-managing means the Developers internally decide who does what, when, and how.
If the Scrum Team consistently misses its Sprint Goals, the Scrum Master should primarily do what?
Answer: Coach the team toward improvement and remove impediments
The Scrum Master coaches the team toward continuous improvement and removes impediments.
Who is accountable for instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done?
Answer: The Developers
The Developers are accountable for instilling quality by conforming to the Definition of Done.