FREE Agile Scrum Product Owner Question and Answers Flashcards

During Sprint Planning, who is responsible for clarifying the acceptance criteria of Product Backlog items?

Answer: The Product Owner

The Product Owner is accountable for ensuring that Product Backlog items are clearly understood and answers questions about acceptance criteria during Sprint Planning.

What should a Product Owner do when multiple stakeholders have conflicting priorities?

Answer: Make a single ordered Product Backlog that reflects the best value

The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing and ordering the Product Backlog, resolving conflicting priorities into a single ordered list that maximizes value.

Which metric is MOST useful for a Product Owner to forecast when a set of features will be delivered?

Answer: Team velocity

Velocity measures the amount of work a team completes per Sprint and is the most reliable empirical metric for forecasting delivery timelines.

A Product Owner discovers mid-Sprint that a higher-priority item has emerged. What is the BEST course of action?

Answer: Place the item at the top of the Product Backlog for the next Sprint

The Sprint Backlog is owned by the Development Team and the scope of a Sprint should not change without their agreement, so new items are typically prioritized for the next Sprint.

What is the PRIMARY purpose of a Product Vision?

Answer: To provide a long-term strategic direction that guides Product Backlog decisions

The Product Vision provides a long-term aspirational goal that helps the Product Owner make consistent prioritization decisions and aligns stakeholders around a shared direction.

In Scrum, who has the authority to cancel a Sprint?

Answer: The Product Owner

Only the Product Owner has the authority to cancel a Sprint, typically when the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete due to changed circumstances.