Project Management Scrum Master Questions ————————— In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not d

Project Management Scrum Master Questions —————————

In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not disregard the fundamental elements of the Sprint Planning event.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not disregard the fundamental elements of the Daily Scrum event.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not disregard the fundamental elements of the Sprint Review event.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not disregard the fundamental elements of the Sprint Retrospective event.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should not disregard the fundamental elements of the Backlog Refinement activity.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should strive to implement Scrum in it’s entirety.

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In two to three sentences of your own words, provide an example of how a Scrum Master could provide support to their Product Owner prior to and during Sprint Planning.

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In two to three sentences of your own words, provide an example of how a Scrum Master could provide support to their Product Owner prior to and during the Sprint Review.

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In two to three sentences of your own words, provide an example of how a Scrum Master could provide support to their Product Owner prior to and during the Sprint Retrospective.

In two to three sentences of your own words, provide an example of how a Scrum Master could provide support to their Product Owner prior to and during the Backlog Refinement activity.

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In three to four sentences of your own words, describe why a Scrum Team should strive to implement Scrum in it’s entirety.

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A Scrum Master embodies the values and principles of Servant Leadership in supporting their Development Team.  The attributes that they embody could include the following:

Demonstrating putting others before themselves
Showing that they are a skilled communicator
Demonstrating general self-awareness
Showing a high capacity for empathy for others
Committed to the personal and professional growth of others

Using three to four sentences of your own words, provide two scenarios where you as a Scrum Master could act as a servant leader for your Development Team, referencing the attributes listed above.

Review the attributes of a servant leader from the previous question. Using three to four sentences of your own words, provide one scenario where you acting as a Scrum Master OR observing another Scrum Master (it could have been in this class!) improved at least one aspect of the Development Team by acting as a servant leader.

A Scrum Master supports their team by responding to Impediments, which are issues or problems that prevent the Scrum Team from meeting their Sprint Goal / executing part of their Sprint Backlog.

Using three to four sentences of your own words, provide one way that you as a Scrum Master working in your organization could assist your team in responding to impediments.

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Interactions with stakeholders are crucial for the successful implementation of Scrum, and their behaviors play a large part in the effectiveness of the Scrum Team.

Using three to four sentences of your own words for each example, provide one example of stakeholder behavior that supports your Scrum Team’s success and one example of a stakeholder behavior that is unsupportive of your Scrum Team’s success.

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When attempting to leverage Scrum, there are often challenges that teams encounter placed in their way not by customers, but the organization itself.

Using three to four sentences of your own words, provide an example of an impediment within your organization that can impact the effectiveness of a Scrum Team that are outside of their control (e.g. team members forced to work on multiple teams).

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Leveraging the Agile Mindset to implement Scrum within an organization causes a tremendous shift in how the organization itself is designed.  This change is inevitable for almost all organizations.

Using three to four sentences of your own words, provide one example of a major organizational change that comes along with implementing Scrum (e.g. elimination of siloed, single-function groups). 

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