Agile Project Management Scrum Framework Roles 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Who is responsible for managing and ordering the Product Backlog?
- Developers
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner (Correct answer)
- Stakeholders
Correct answer: Product Owner
The Product Owner is accountable for effective Product Backlog management and ordering.
Question 2: A Developer wants to add a new feature directly to the Product Backlog and reprioritize it. What is the correct approach?
- Add and reorder it themselves
- Discuss it with the Product Owner who owns backlog ordering (Correct answer)
- Ask the Scrum Master to approve it
- Wait for management sign-off
Correct answer: Discuss it with the Product Owner who owns backlog ordering
Backlog ordering is the Product Owner's accountability, so changes go through them.
Question 3: Which of the following is a Scrum Master service to the Product Owner?
- Writing all the code
- Helping with effective Product Backlog management techniques (Correct answer)
- Assigning tasks to Developers
- Approving the budget
Correct answer: Helping with effective Product Backlog management techniques
The Scrum Master helps the Product Owner with backlog management techniques and goal definition.
Question 4: Who decides how to turn Product Backlog items into a working Increment during the Sprint?
- The Product Owner
- The Scrum Master
- The Developers (Correct answer)
- The customer
Correct answer: The Developers
The Developers are self-managing and decide how the work gets done.
Question 5: The Scrum Master helps the organization by doing which of the following?
- Approving release dates
- Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams (Correct answer)
- Hiring new developers
- Setting individual performance reviews
Correct answer: Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams
The Scrum Master helps remove barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.
Question 6: Within the Scrum Team, who holds a separate 'manager' title that assigns work to individuals?
- The Scrum Master
- The Product Owner
- No one; there are no sub-teams or hierarchies (Correct answer)
- A team lead Developer
Correct answer: No one; there are no sub-teams or hierarchies
The Scrum Team has no sub-teams or hierarchies and is cross-functional and self-managing.
Question 7: The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. Is the Product Owner one person or a committee?
- A committee that votes
- One person (Correct answer)
- Always two co-owners
- The entire Developer group
Correct answer: One person
The Product Owner is one person, not a committee, though they may represent many stakeholders.
Agile Project Management Scrum Framework Roles 3
Who is responsible for managing and ordering the Product Backlog?