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Scrum questions

Nina — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:52:03 GMT

Hi All-
Call some one help me with following questions

1- Can iteration Back log include Use Cases?

2- Can product back log also contain user stories? In my experience with managing Agile we only have PBI not user stories but I am taking online CSM course from a source where it says Product backlog can have User stories.

3-If a Development team member is not a team player who is responsible for Firing him/her

Thanks

Availability of PSD I assessment without course

CraigTP — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:34:55 GMT

Hi,

On the following page on Scrum.org:
http://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Professional-Scrum-Developer-Assessments/PSD-I-Assessment

It states:
"At present, Professional Scrum Developer I assessment and certification is open only to those who have taken a Professional Scrum Developer course. Assessment is currently based on the body of knowledge contained in the courseware. Once the body of knowledge has been formalized as a Scrum Developer Guide, the assessment will be open to the public and anyone – including those who have not taken a Professional Scrum Developer course – will be able to assess themselves. "

Can anyone tell me how long it's likely to be before the public can take the assessment without requiring attendance at a course?

Thanks in advance.

Open Assesment Question Error.

Peter Anderton. — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:51:09 GMT

I am having a problem understanding this question...

"Advantages of stating requirements as failing acceptance tests include (choose all that apply):"

I think the wording is all wong - but could someone help me and tell me what it means?

help!

PSM 1 Certificate- Hardcopy ?

Nishanth — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:07:22 GMT

I passed PSM 1 exam last week and got the soft copy of the certificate. I wonder weather I would be getting a Hard copy of the same.

Many thanks,
Nishanth

English?

Peter Anderton. — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:36:57 GMT

I see a lot of questions from people having trouble with the PSM exam questions - and them wondering if it is the fact that they are not native English speakers... I *am* an English speaker, but I am having a problem understanding the English in this question...##what does it mean?

"Advantages of stating requirements as failing acceptance tests include (choose all that apply):"

or more to my point... what does it attempt to mean

PS - it is one of the OPEN assesment questions so there should be no problem with me repeating it here

Feedback loop

P.Ross — Sat, 11 May 2013 00:18:11 GMT

Which Scrum events are considered a feedback loop?

- Sprint Planning Meeting
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retro

All of them perhaps? Release Planning isnt considered a Scrum event, but it can be seen as a feedback loop as well?

disappeared from official list of certificate holders (PSM1)

Dominik S. — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:43:06 GMT

Hi,

Let me start by saying it's normally not my style to try and get support through public channels.
But alas, I cannot blame myself for not trying.

I did pass my PSM1 exam on 20th July 2012.

On 24th April alerted support via the web form, that my name had disappeard from the official list of certificate holders:
https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Certification-Lists?AssessmentName=PSM%20I

Not having received any reply, I tried again on 1st May 2013.

As I still have not received a reply or an update in the list of certificate holders, I try this forum now.

Could you please investigate and add me to the list again?
Not sure if the "missing badge" and empty list of assessments in my profile has the same reason.
Many thanks.

Best regards, Scrum on,
Dominik

Am I ready for PSM1?

tschroeder — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:05:16 GMT

Hi community,

I started totally fresh with scrum 2 weeks ago. We need a PSM1 at work and I get asked if I would like to learn this.

So I started reading the guide, all sites mentioned in other posts here and which I could find on the web.

I am still reading stuff, and since 3 days I do several open assesments here and free tests at testtakeronline.com.

All with more then 95%.

What do you think? Am I ready for doing the PSM1 assesment? I mean, with the above knowledge about me, is there any good chance I could handle this assesment with the first try?

Or would it be better to spend 20$ at testtakeronline for the package with 350 questions?

Any comment would be very appreciated! Thanks!

Cheers,
Thomas

PSM Assessment 2 Study tips??

Nèlio — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:00:50 GMT

I wonder if there is any tips whether which books/s or articles that should be read to be best prepared for PSM assessment 2?

Passed PSM i - certificate / proof by Tuesday for interview?

jbeek — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:47:31 GMT

Just passed PSM I. It can take time for certificate. I have an interview for scrum master this Tuesday 8am EST. Is there a way I can get the certificate tomorrow, Monday or some other proof like on the website to show during the interview?

thanks.

Bigger logos

Pierre Soum Cogitae — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:07:40 GMT

Hi there,

I'm looking for a bigger version of the PSM I logo, as I need to print it, but cannot find it anywhere. Any idea?

Thanks

why does it take so long to get a password

goaks — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:21:38 GMT

I have been emailing for a week now just to get a password to take the test ... why ...

I can understand a day or two even, but after that it becomes ridiculous, especially for individuals in an org that is suppose to manage complex software development projects.

Thanks

-Ed

What to expect from the PSM II exam

Romain Trocherie — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:16:03 GMT

Hello everyone,

It's been two years now I'm using Scrum in a few projects, and currently taking a leap forward to promote and implement it in my organization.

For that matter, I plan to follow a PSPO course and pass the PSM II exam soon, so I have a few questions regarding the last one.

- How many questions are there in the PSM II exam? Read somewhere it was about 50 questions with 40% as essays, is that right?

- Does it tend to evaluate the candidates on other agile topics than Scrum? If yes, which ones?

- Are there feedbacks provided with the results?

Thanks in advance for your advice and tips. In the meantime, I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! ;)

Kind regards,

Romain

Scrum Master's role as a coach and a teacher

Inoxys — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:20:25 GMT

Hello,

In what extreme situations the development team still has to find his own solutions (not the scrum master solution)? All situations? or is there a limit? if yes which one?

Some PSMI material clarification

jbeek — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:15:58 GMT

I have taken the PSM I exam and have some clarification needed on some topics. I asked scrum.org and it was recommended to use this forum to gain clarification on these topics. I greatly appreciate your insight and expertise from this forum. I think I know the material well but there are some topics that seem to have specific nuances to that are just not clear to me or any of the training and text I came across.

These are topics for clarification and the numbering below is my nomenclature for ordering the topics for responses versus any specific numbering on an assessment.

1. I know the dev team is self-managing. I also know the scrum master needs to remove impediments. If a person is disruptive to the team is it the self-managing team that removes the individual or is it the scrum master. I believe it’s the dev team.

2. I understand the product backlog created by product owner. At the sprint planning meeting the scrum team develops the goal then dev team creates the spring back log. Is it the spring goal or the actual spring backlog that provides the overall target and direction to the team? I think the goal is the overall target and the sprint backlog are the specifics.

3. I know the scrum master insures the scrum process is followed for the daily scrum and insures the dev team keeps it to <= 15minutes. There are times he/she can do this without being present all the time therefore I don’t think the scrum master is REQUIRED to attend the daily scrum. What are your thoughts?

4. I understand how a single scrum team works off the product backlog via sprints. I am not clear how I can implement a project with multiple scrum teams. Do you recommend that even with multiple scrum teams we all work off the same sprint backlog and same sprint with same sprint time box / timing or can I have multiple teams working on different spring backlogs with different start dates for the sprints?

5. Want to clarify who makes the product burn down charts and sprint burn down charts. I don’t believe it’s the scrum master since creating anytype of status / progress chart is a type of management and this position is process focused and doesn’t manage the effort. For the product log burn down chart I believe it’s the product owner. Now it gets more confusing for the spring burn down chart for me. I have read that the product owner tracks the sprint burndown chart for the “sprint review” but the dev team tracks the sprint burn down chart during the sprint. Any thoughts?

6. My understanding is that the dev team selects the sprint log and estimates to implement. The dev team then works toward completing the sprint log within the time box. Not sure what to do if before we start the sprint if the tools needed are ALL not ready for us to use. Does the dev team just do what it can within the time box or reiterate sprints focused on getting the tools ready before working off the product backlog items selected for the sprint backlog? One can just not start the sprint until all tools are ready to start the sprints. Need some help clarifying this idea.

7. I understand if QA testing is not done during the actual sprint that more bugs will be added to the next sprint. Also we run the risk of not delivering working software. If I am looking for the benefit lost rather than results of not conducting QA test during the sprint I think its not delivering working software but not sure.

8. I know I need to keep the dev team members constant during the sprint. For the assessments do we mean the ideal goal of scrum (ie constant) or literally. I can’t control if someone quits the company, gets ill, etc. So literally I can’t guarantee constant team but I think for scrum the ideal goal is to keep it constant.

9. Need to clarify that the product owner can provide feedback and respond to questions during both the sprint planning meeting and the entire sprint. I believe feedback and response from dev team clarification questions is fine. Direction is not fine. Not sure for exam purposes feedback is non-requested feedback offered by product owner which I don’t think is fine during sprint planning meeting versus feedback from dev team questions.

10. My understanding is that product owner creates product backlog with user stories which the dev team selects for sprint backlog and breaks down to tasks. Product backlog has more user stories than the subset selected for the sprint backlog. From an exam perspective if we are asked to determine product back.log is the same size of the sprint back log not sure of the definition of size? Clearly it has a subset of user stories selected to implement therefore from a user story perspective sprint is smaller. But the sprint backlog can breakdown the subset user stories into many many tasks in theory that the list of items on the sprint backlog is more than the product backlog. Can some help with the actual intent of this type of question?

11. I understand the dev team does what it can to accomplish the sprint goal. When planning we use “ideal days” which only considers actual productive time coding / testing. From a scrum framework perspective is there a maximum amount of time a developer should work for a given day? I have always worked as much time it takes to get the job done but I see some documentation referring the max time should be the “ideal day” to maintain a consistent pace for the long term. I thought I also read to sustain the consistent pace for the long term developers shouldn’t work more than 40 hours per week which is 7-8 hours per day.

12. I believe the scrum team (po, scm, and dev team) together develop the sprint goal during the sprint planning meeting. But if the dev team is self-managing then the dev team should create their sprint goal. I can also see though the product owner develops the release plan (releases gone away with current scrum) then product owner sets overall goal for which the dev team creates the product backlog it can handle that supports it.

13. Are there any other reasons to keep sprints <= 1 month besides a) reduces risk, b) reduces complexity of what to build, 3) reduces cost risk/waste to no more than a month? I have not come across anything that says it allows team time to synchronize with other business initiatives.

Thanks.

What's next?

Vandana — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:12:17 GMT

Hi,

I recently passed the certification for the PSM I. I'm currently looking for a job and was a business analyst in my previous role.I see most of the job openings ask for scrum knowledge and experience.What would be the next step for me to build on PSM I knowledge?

Thanks
vandana koul.

PSM 1 - Is spring goal defined before / during / after spring plannning meeting?

jbeek — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:10:11 GMT

Is the spring goal defined before / during / after the spring planning meeting. who defines the goal - product owner, dev team, scrum master?

trying to pass exam tonight. not sure of this question.

thanks.

Can we talk about few PSM II questions?

Inoxys — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:27:35 GMT

I failed to pass my PSM II assessment and the feedback is very poor. I would like to talk about a few questions that I probably failed to answer. Is it possible to talk about it here?

I also would like to know if I can make very short sentences to essay questions. I'm not a native english speaker. I loose many time to translate questions and find correct words for my answers. If it's possible, someone can give me an example of short answer?

Thanks

Community Blog Feed - Submitting Feeds/Posts

Derek Hubbard — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:18:22 GMT

Hi -

Is there a process in place to suggest blog feeds/posts to be included in the Scrum.org Community blog feed?

Thanks in advance.

Derek