At any point in time, the total work remaining to reach a goal can be summed. The Product Owner tracks this total work remaining at least every Sprint Review. The Product Owner compares this amount with work remaining at previous Sprint Reviews to assess progress toward completing projected work by the desired time for the goal. This information is made transparent to all stakeholders. Show Various projective practices upon trending have been used to forecast progress, like burn-downs, burn-ups, or cumulative flows. These have proven useful. However, these do not replace the importance of empiricism. In complex environments, what will happen is unknown. Only what has already happened may be used for forward-looking decision-making. At any point in time in a Sprint, the total work remaining in the Sprint Backlog can be summed. The Development Team tracks this total work remaining at least for every Daily Scrum to project the likelihood of achieving the Sprint Goal. By tracking the remaining work throughout the Sprint, the Development Team can manage its progress. The What is Scrum Blog Series are excerpts from the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Offered for license under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons, accessible at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode and also described in summary form at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Reading Time: 8 minutes Last Updated on November 29, 2020 by Jacob SCRUM is the most acknowledged framework for project management, within the IT industry worldwide. SCRUM is a framework which can be applied basically to any kind of project within development and maintenance. SCRUM was originally developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the 1990’s. SCRUM is not a definite method but a framework. The SCRUM framework binds together roles, events and artifacts. SCRUM is based on “empirical process control theory” also known as Empiricism. In the following I will describe how i prepared myself for passing the Professional Scrum Master exam level 1 in SCRUM.org. PSM-I exam is about understanding fundamental SCRUM theory in and out. Basically you need to familiarise yourself with “The SCRUM guide” on a deeper lever, and have a thorough understanding and memorisation for each and every section of the guide. UPDATE: Since I wrote this article the SCRUM guide 2020 edition has been released. Find it HERE For a quick overview my preparation consisted of the following: After above preparation, I managed to pass the exam on SCRUM.org with 79 correct answers of 80 questions. The hard part, is the fact, that you basically need to know the 18 page SCRUM guide in and out. Objectively 18 pages doesn’t sound like a lot, but the density and wording of those 18 pages, has been carefully selected and modified over more than 20 years, and you need to pay close attention to the wording of each and every sentence. For the same reason, I chose to read the scrum guide aloud – record it, and uploading it to youtube: LINK – Not exactly my best recording ever, but it was definitely worth the effort. I believe in diversifying the way you receive knowledge. In this case I listened to the SCRUM guide as audio version. I read it aloud, and I read it multiple times. The practice I found most valuable though, was to read the SCRUM guide, and mark all words I consider to be “value attributed words”. Those “value” words are, what makes the SCRUM guide and certification particular tricky. It makes a big difference whether something is “may”, “should” or “must”. Just to mention some of the words I highlighted from the SCRUM guide, and for which you in their context needs to pay particular attention to:
Words above are hard to categorize as a whole, but whenever you read them in the SCRUM guide, pay particular attention to them and the context they are in. Across the net I found a common consensus on recommending, you shouldn’t try and take the exam, before you have an average of 95 % correct in test exams. And please do not rely on your score in SCRUM’s free 36 question open assessment, since it is way below the actual exam level. Below I have gathered some of my SCRUM notes, and nearly 50 exam questions and replies, for which, I at some point in my learning path had doubts on the correct answer. The three pillars of Scrum is
SCRUM events:
SCRUM values:
The SCRUM team
Scrum Artifacts
Scrum Time boxes
SCRUM Questions:
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