Which of the following statements about the Product Backlog are true? (Choose two.)
A. All Product Backlog items must be expressed as user stones.
B. The Product Backlog represents the input of all stakeholders and eliminates any need for the Developers to speak to stakeholders.
C. All Product Backlog items must be identified before the first Sprint begins.
D. The Product Backlog should be visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.
E. The Product Backlog is ordered by the Product Owner.
F. Only the Product Owner can place items on the Product Backlog.
You are the Product Owner for a product with diverse stakeholders with differing opinions that sometimes conflict.
Your Director of Marketing strongly believes that you should add a major new feature to reach a new market. Your CEO believes that the new feature is too expensive and thinks you should focus on other features to make existing customers happier. The CEO says that as Product Owner it is ultimately your decision.
You think both perspectives have merit, but you cannot do both. How should you proceed?
A. Trust the CEO's opinion and focus on current customers, since you cannot afford unhappy customers
B. Trust the Director of Marketing's opinion and add the features, when revenues increase, you will be vindicated
C. Devise an experiment that will help the company to better understand the new market and its potential
D. Better understand the positions of other stakeholders to gather more information, then make a decision
An effective Product Owner must:
A. Ensure that every stakeholder need is met
B. Be the "expert" opinion for all Product Backlog items
C. Ensure that the team is as productive as possible
D. Be the single point of contact for all stakeholders
E. All of the above
F. None of the above
If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what do they track?
A. Accumulated cost
B. Individual worker productivity
C. Work remaining across time
D. Accumulated business value delivered to the customer
You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to that many people, both inside and outside the Scrum Team, expect close involvement in the decisions that you, as a Product Owner, are accountable for.
As a result, you find that it takes too long to make decisions. Which of the following are reasonable options you could take? (Choose three.)
A. Create and share a delegation hoard that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility
B. Allow other members of the Scrum Team and stakeholders to continue making decisions they are not accountable for documenting which decisions do not deliver the intended value
C. Demonstrate with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customer
D. Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company's understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur
E. Start making all the decisions without consulting the others who have expressed interest
A user satisfaction gap exists when there is a difference between: (Choose two.)
A. The user's actual experience
B. The user's desired outcome
C. The total market size
D. The market share of the product
Personas can help to:
A. Understand the needs of a set of users
B. Formulate hypotheses about product value
C. Understand market potential
D. Discover key buying triggers
E. All of the above
The most important thing a Product Owner can do is:
A. Function as the single source of truth for all requirements
B. Ensure that all stakeholder needs are met
C. Maximize the value delivered by the product
D. Determine the release schedule and contents
Which of the following activities should a Product Owner never do?
A. Establish a Product Goal
B. Dictate the Sprint Goal
C. Decide when to release the product Increment
D. Accept work done during the Sprint
When should the Product Owner update the project plan?
A. The Product Backlog is the plan in Scrum It is updated as new information and insights emerge.
B. The project plan must be updated prior to the Sprint Retrospective.
C. Before the Sprint Planning to know how much work will have to be done in the Sprint.
D. After the Daily Scrum to ensure an accurate daily overview of project progress.