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interviewquestionsblog · 5 years ago

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Easy Tips on How to Become a Scrum Master

Get expertise in another methodology

It may seem unusual when I say it is just as vital that you understand the world without scrum, as it's to know how scrum has changed the planet. The reason I say this, is always that to essentially appreciate the main advantages of any methodology or framework it is very vital that you understand the pitfalls (and benefits) of other methods.

Get scrum project experience and reassess your values

After gaining solid project knowledge in at least one other methodology you should have a fantastic basis on what to compare with methodologies. I recommend obtaining a copy of "the scrum guide" by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, reading it thoroughly and after that enquiring after project experience within your department, organisation or another organisation.

Become a certified CSM

After you own an comprehension of a methodology other than scrum, along with also lived and breathed scrum for quite a while (I recommend few months to some year, but it all hangs in your aptitude), the next step is to turn into a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). On this course you will end up given an introduction to the rules, reach ask the trainer questions lastly you will end up tested on which you might have learned. There are numerous organisations that supply this certification but I recommend the Scrum Alliance CSM Course.

Put your certification into practice

As you may already know, the ultimate way to obtain a new role or job is usually to demonstrate that you simply already have experience of it. Having done a training course leaves you in an excellent position to use knowing about it. You can suggest practices in debates and speak to your line manager about the main advantages of implementing them. If your team is already doing the practices, frequently you will find that the rules usually are not followed if the going gets tough. However, that is precisely if the methodology needs to be most powerful in managing chaos. Therefore, you'll be able to assist to explain the main advantages of maintaining the rules.

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Get a voluntary leadership role

Although the role of just isn't about authority or treating people, there certainly is a robust component of leadership of men and women and treating the framework. I suggest showing your employer that you simply are considering a technical or non technical leadership role.

Get a scrum master role

Once you might have which may yourself that you simply fully understand the rules, you are ready to facilitate a team and may play the portion of "servant leader", you happen to be then all set and acquire that role! At the time of penning this text, scrum will be the de facto standard methodology for software development projects which is quick into non software development projects. I listed my CV on jobs sites in order that the your customers found me, but additionally rang agencies directly.

Stick to the rules

The seventh step is good for many people essentially the most difficult to carry out, with no example can make it easier. After having learned the rules, you'll now must make sure that regardless of the characters you meet, the deadlines imposed by an ambitious business client or the reluctance of the individuals you meet, you still take care of the simple rules. Believe me when I tell you that many have tried and failed to do this. However, if I did it, you'll be able to too!

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anantradingpvtltd · 3 years ago

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jiggyloveshockey · 7 years ago

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Can we talk about sports media?

As a very enthusiastic participant of hockey tumblr, I am so fucking fed up with the narrative of annoying “sports media people” asking “stupid questions” in scrums, locker rooms and post game interviews. So - as a sports reporter (I worked as a rink side reporter for a few years before I got into commentating) - let me clear a few things up for y’all:

- Players don��t want to talk to you. When you meet them in private, they are very laid back. Once they trust you enough, they can even become your friends. But even the players I was close with, would clam up in front of the mic or the camera. Because it’s trained into them. “Always consider the possible repercussions for yourself, your teammates, your coaching staff, your franchise and the sport in its entirety.” Don’t let private shit out. Or you will be Tyler Seguin being traded from the Bruins.

- If you want to know what media training does to a hockey player, watch Sidney Crosby. He has mastered that shit. If someone asks Sid a question he doesn’t want to answer, he will simply turn the question into a vague statement that can be interpreted either way and then tag on stuff about things being “a great honor” or something. He aces being bland! It’s infuriating! And so, so boring!

- You will rarely be alone with a player. Usually there will be a dozen other reporters with you, all hungry for a soundbite that will make their career. Or at least get them a shoulder pat from their boss. Emotions of any kind are good. Emotions sell newspapers and get clicks and ad revenue for a website. Personal tragedy is the best! A player getting a cancer diagnosis? A player losing their child? It’s the jackpot for any and all hockey reporters! Nobody wants to see Auston Matthews say “Uhm, well, for sure, we played really well today and hopefully we can bring the same kind of energy tomorrow night, and...” for the hundredth time if you can instead have a soundbite of Brian Boyle talking about his chemo therapy.

- Right about now you are probably disgusted with me for being such a cynical fuck, right? Ah well, now let’s get to the tricky part: We are all fucking complicit in this! We all click the videos, we all click the headlines reading “Erik Karlsson speaking up about the loss of his son”. Most of us have shared that stuff on tumblr and Twitter and Facebook. We smash the like button, because there is content to be liked and shared and reblogged. If it weren’t for these “damn nosy sports reporters”, we wouldn’t be able to read that shit. Now isn’t that a fucking lovely plot twist?

- I am not saying that all sports reporters are awesome. In fact there are some truly horrible ones. Some that repeat rumors and things that were said off the record (looking at you, Georges Laraque, you giant pile of crap!). Some that are plain rude and ruthless in their pursuit of a good story. Some that don’t respect athlete’s privacies. But all in all, these are just people trying to do a good job. And that sometimes means being annoying. And asking really stupid questions, because those questions occasionally bring the best results.

- So the next time you want to reblog a gif set of some hockey player being pissed off at an inane question with the caption “Ugh, they are so annoyed with these stupid reporters!” please consider this: You have multimillion dollar athletes who for fucking 20 minutes of their day have to talk about themselves! That is literally the worst part of their job! You had to kick the stupid fax machine for 20 minutes yesterday? Your annoying colleague Cathy told you about her anal fissure for half an hour during your lunch break? Your creepy colleague groped your butt and made it look like an accident? Well, boo-fucking-hoo, poor Auston Matthews had to blandly answer 5 questions, before he got a massage. I mean, talk about a rough day!

- Also consider this: Without sports reporters (even the stupid ones) doing their job, hockey tumblr would be pretty fucking empty. There would be no postgame interview gifs to share. So maybe don’t bitch about other people’s work before you’ve had to stand in a grossly smelly locker room and think about another fucking polite variation of the question “Why did you lose and the other team win today?”

#hockey #personal #rant #sorry long post #apparently this is a trigger for me?!#sorry sorry

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oguild · 4 years ago

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Scrum Master Interview Questions

The role of Scrum Master in the IT industry is often hard to understand. There is also a lack of clarity in the responsibilities and set of tasks that a Scrum master must perform. Below is an excerpt from an interaction where Saket talks to one of the Scrum professionals and clears few core concepts regarding the role of Scrum masters and how the Scrum masters should present themselves during an interview.

Scrum Professional: I got through many interviews lately, and there are some of the critical questions asked to every person applying for this role. Since facilitation is considered the crucial role of Scrum master, people are willing to know: What is your daily routine? Now, most of the time as a scrum master goes in communicating with the team, reviewing various dashboards, attending ceremonies, etc. What do you suggest can be the best way of answering such a question?

Saket: That sounds interesting. What do you think the interviewers might be trying to find by asking such a question?

Scrum Professional: I think there can be two reasons for asking such a question:

• The interviewers might want to know: How, as a Scrum master, we fill our eight hours of work at the job. What is our contribution in these eight hours?

• Second, the interviewers might want to test the waters of Scum master. They might be interested in knowing whether the person is just operational and only resolves the issues posted to him, or he is a proactive person and takes self-initiatives in a forward-going manner. It may be a second perspective to it.

Saket: Perfect! So, I think the first point you mentioned automatically gets taken care of if we focus on the second one. My understanding is more aligned with your second point. See, the title and designations are organization-specific. So when somebody tells me that I am working as a Scrum master, I get about 30-40% of clarity of what this guy might be doing at his job. Only when I get a view of his daily routine will I come to know about all his roles and responsibilities. The interviewer is trying to extract what you do to facilitate your team to become an effective team. How do you make them high-performing? How are you helping them grow and deliver something that they are supposed to provide? Also, a critical perspective here is that the interviewer is indirectly trying to find out your efficiency in managing the team. The kind of activities that you perform as a Scrum master also reveals the health of your team. For example, if you say I remind my team of filling their JIRA activities, it tells a lot about your team. To me, it is an indicator that the team is at an elementary level. They have not yet crossed the first boundary, and they are still struggling with the basics of Scrum. They are still struggling in communication and collaboration, and you, as a Scrum Master, are working on a very superficial level to manage the basics of Scrum get done. Another example: If you say there are many conflicts in the team and resolve them regularly, it shows what might be happening in your group. Again, to me, it shows that there is a lack of transparency. The team is struggling in communication, and you, as a Scrum Master, are working as a bridge between various members to help resolve the issue and get the delivery done. Take another instance; if you say I keep myself busy discussing with the Product owner, it might pass on an impression that the team is talking less to the product owner. You, as a Scrum Master, are not responsible for discussing requirements alone. It is the responsibility of your team. So it again put a question on your role, efficiency, and above all on your understanding of the SCRUM.

Scrum Professional: Ok. I think I get it now! The interviewer is trying to get the perspective about the team to understand my role in a better way. So what do you suggest? How should we frame our answer to this question?

Saket: While it is essential to talk about your role in the scrum ceremonies and daily routine activities, I suggest emphasizing forward-looking things. As you mentioned earlier, the interviewer might be interested in the kind of self-initiated activities that you might be taking up apart from the bookish definition of a Scrum master. You can try to reflect more on the team development and product development activities. For example, You conduct a one-to-one discussion with each team member in every iteration. The purpose of such a discussion is to understand the clarity that every person has at any moment.

Another thing that you can reflect upon is the discussion that you have with the product owner, not regarding the current sprint tasks or upcoming requirements but as a holistic approach to design and shape the product in a better position than it currently is. So, a forward-looking approach is a way to present yourself in answer to such a question. Another important thing while answering such a question, your response should reflect on your aspirations and the kind of work that you want to do in the future, even if you are not performing those tasks entirely in your current position. The job should meet your aspirations if you are going to perform well.

Scrum Professional: Great insights. That was detailed and made perfect sense. The next question that I have is around the client expectations. In a country like India, where most industries are service-based, the client is regularly pushing for deadlines. Sometimes, the scope is changed even after the sprint planning. So, the question, "how do you manage the client expectations in such cases" is asked?

Saket: We need to balance our answer so that we do not look too idealistic as well as it does not look that we will just get carried away in the situation and unable to take care of our team. We need to find a balancing act. We all face such problems many times when there is a conflict between the client's expectations and the project timelines. In my understanding, two key points can help:

• Empathy

• Transparency

You relate to the person, make him understand the pain of the other person. It is more about you empathizing with the customer, product owner and making the product owner empathize with you and your team. It would help if you created a sense that only by empathizing with each other can we achieve something. You need to make the client understand that pushing will not alone bring the results. It is creative work to think, design, code, test, and execute many other processes. Quality is also an important aspect. You cannot just afford the delivery at the cost of quality. A healthy environment for the team is also essential. A healthy environment is a must for delivering a healthy product. Once you have empathized with your client about these things, things get easier to tackle. Secondly, transparency is of paramount importance. It would help if you were transparent with the client regarding all your processes and challenges. Clarity brings mutual trust, and that is the key to a long and healthy customer relationship. Make things transparent and have confidence because, without these, two shows cannot run.

Scrum Professional: I agree with you. I recently faced a similar situation where negotiations and teams indeed came up with the best possible solution. I have also seen examples where the team recommends the items those need to be picked from the backlog, which can be delivered effectively based on the team's current situation.

Saket: Yeah, that is a perfect example. We can always share insights into internal development with the product owner or client. It will increase the team's confidence and reduce any conflicts with the customer's expectations.

Scrum Professional: Right. So that is that. Another point that I want to discuss is regarding the Job description of a Scrum master. I have worked as a Scrum Master in 3 different domains, and I found that I could manage each one of them well. However, most of the time, the Job description is so domain-specific that it becomes to get even shortlisted. Even if you land at an interview, it is hard to convince the interviewer of your capabilities due to cross-domain concerns. What do you think of such a situation?

Saket: I understand that. Often, the organizations can be looking to sort out a specific problem, and therefore the team is framed with particular skill sets in mind and might also want a Scrum master from the same background. However, this problem...

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sportinnovation · 9 years ago

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A day in the life of Eddie Izzard

They recognise you everywhere and expect you always to be funny. From interview to interview, they whirl you. People tug on your patience, but you never get angry. For a day, we walked in the footprints of Eddie Izzard: comedian, actor, marathon runner, and charity patron.

Aliens, giraffes, and slapping people in the face with fish – it’s half six in the morning and Eddie Izzard is serious.

As he pecks away at a breakfast of sausage and scrambled egg, Eddie digests as much information as possible. In an hour, he will appear on BBC Breakfast to speak about sports volunteering and Join In’s BigHelpOut campaign and he needs the message settled in his head.

Pale blue eyes stare into nothing as he listens to the plan. Seven out of ten sports clubs need more help. We aim to get 10,000 new volunteers by Christmas. Somehow, he must thread these stats seamlessly into his couch-side chatter.

This is not the Eddie Izzard you expect. On screen, he seems frantic and scatty. In person, he is understated, pensive, and particular. Everything is on point. Not a hair on his blond head rests out of place. The eye makeup, suit jacket, tight jeans, high-heeled boots, and handbag all marry tidily.

Fingernails clack on the table. Each is painted burgundy, except for two: a fingernail of Union Jack and another glossed in the flag of Europe. After several minutes, he has digested enough. Eddie is ready. And when he speaks, everything changes.

He goes from studied to theatrical in an instant. Richness comes to his voice. Hands flutter by his face. Like a gymnast on the parallel bars, his rhythm builds. With every passing second, he becomes more fluent. Funnier and funnier – until his speech is alive with 10,000 volunteers, giraffes, the Big Help Out, aliens, and fish-slapped faces. So that is what all the fuss is about.

Portrait of a patron

Indeed, fuss follows Eddie wherever he goes. Even when he’s inside BBC Manchester at half seven in the morning, the buzzing is never far away. There’s a film crew, snappers, campaign managers, pens wittering, and gawking – lots of gawking.

You can measure the madness of his morning by counting his spare moments. In a two-hour period, he spends a minute staring at Boris Johnson on the TV and a few moments skimming the paper. The rest is spent in the eye of a storm, starting with breakfast-time TV.

When the first questions come, he is well prepared – the minutes spent ironing the creases serving him well. This time there is no need to limber. From subject to subject Eddie flits in a blurring 10-minute journey.

He talks greed…

‘I was a kid. You were a kid. You’re greedy. But as you get older, you get this wonderful feeling when you give.’

…the devilry that is refined sugar…

‘I lost more weight by dumping refined sugar than by running 43 marathons. No animal eats refined sugar and they’re fit, fit, fit, fit for life. We think that fitness is a running around kid thing and then you let it go.’

…before, inevitably, moving onto aliens…

‘Volunteers can be all ages, all colours and creeds, even from different planets. Anyone. Giraffes.’

In these few, short minutes we see why Eddie Izzard has endured where other have faded. The absurdism, the scattershot delivery, and playful charm make him unique.

But that isn’t all of it. Watch Eddie for a while and you realise that he is a technician. The hand movements, the way he hangs on some words and rambles through others, the bits and bobs from of his day that re-appear later on stage – none of this is accidental.

It goes well. The country loved it, yet this self-awareness follows him outside the interview. For a moment, he seems troubled. Did he speak too fast? Because he needed to, he said, for his intonation.

But he doesn’t dwell on it, nor does he seem bothered by the scrum that greets him when he leaves the studio. Social media folks take pictures of him and a camera’s unblinking eye captures it all for a behind-the-scenes film. Eddie quite literally takes it all in his stride, answering questions about the time his toenails fell off as he is whisked away for his next appointment.

When Eddie’s face turned cola brown

In a room full of BBC employees, Eddie is bellows master, whooshing the laughs out of his audience.

You get the sense that he could be in his living room. One minute he talks about his favourite footballer – former Crystal Palace, Arsenal, and England left back Kenny Sansom – the next he recalls the time his face turned Coca-Cola brown after taking cholesterol pills.

You notice also that he polishes and repurposes a couple of jokes that worked well earlier. Other snippets from his day are pasted into this lunch-time Q&A. Like corks pushed into a wine bottle, phrases and subjects stick in his head and do not leave. Once, twice, we hear talk of disposable time, the volunteering bug, and his emancipation from the wicked world of refined sugar.

Then he is freewheeling again. First, he lilts into a Belfast accent before pondering aloud this year’s marathon undertaking: 27 South African marathons in 27 days, one for each year Nelson Mandela spent in prison.

Combine the standup comedy tours, acting career (he recently ate his own leg in an episode of Hannibal), political work, marathon training, and charitable endeavours, and you wonder how much time he has for anything else.

Yet there is no mention of a holiday. When his manager heard about the 27 marathons in 27 days, she pled with him, “Why don’t you take a month off,” she said, “and not die?”

The toll of time and tiredness

You can be forgiven for forgetting that Eddie Izzard is 53 years old; but as day meanders into evening, the schedule weighs heavily on him.

Two more engagements follow the staff Q&A: an interview for a news feature and 90 minutes spent cooped inside a tiny sound-proofed studio (or giant coal bunker) spreading the volunteering gospel to 11 regional radio stations.

Despite the demands placed on Eddie’s time, he never once complains, though he does come close. The moment arrives on a picnic bench in Trafford Athletics Club, as he devours a salad and listens to the itinerary.

During the course of the evening, he will act in a dozen short pieces to camera in various volunteering guises. The crew will film him shooting a starting gun, making tea for club members, raking a long jump pit, and dipping for a photo finish with former 5,000m world record holder Dave Moorcroft. These he expects.

And then he is told about a 45-minute newspaper interview. This he does not expect. His head twitches and his eyes flash like blown embers. An interview? For how long? You can hear the strain in his voice and a flash of the eyes. For a moment all is silent, and then he nods... and goes back to his salad.

As he eats, Trafford Athletics Club comes alive for the evening’s Grand Prix. An hour earlier rain peppered the track, but now there is a brightness to everything. Runners jog and chat and stretch along a track hidden by towering trees. The waft of frying burgers and chips lures the less active to the yellow-white clubhouse.

People pour through the gates, gabbling as Eddie rises to stretch. A light blue running jacket and shorts have replaced his suit. Vigorously, he shakes out his limbs as if tricking his body out of tiredness.

He is not built like a runner – too much sturdiness around the shoulders and arms, not enough of that willowy long-leggedness; and yet Eddie owns an athletic feat that few on the planet can match: the running of 43 marathons in 51 days.

Ten minutes later, he sits on a hurdle in the middle of the track with a mic hovering by his head. A camera lens points two feet from his face and a crew fusses. But he doesn’t see them. Once again, the cheeks lift and his eyes brighten as the camera rolls. “We’re here today,” he says, “thanks to plenty of blood, sweat, and volunteers.”

Dapper as an Italian policeman

There are scripts for each film, yet he sticks only loosely to them, allowing space for his fluid streams of consciousness. The pace, however, is relentless. After 12 hours of non-stop talking, Eddie’s brain is slowly starting to scramble. Tiredness slithers among his sentences. When he speaks, words slur and clash against one another.

Hands flitter by his temples in a frantic moment, as if he is taking several imaginary throw-ins. ‘There are so many things in my head,’ he says. Around him, the ground swells with athletes and well-wishers. For Eddie and the film crew, it will only get busier – and noisier.

For a flawless half minute, he delivers a piece to camera as 20 club members wait on him. To be a film extra is a novelty in the beginning, but the shine quickly wears off. A bird’s squawk interrupts him. For how much longer, you wonder, will these club members sit easily? Eddie resumes. An aeroplane whistles overhead. Unruffled, he says something to make them laugh and starts again.

Sometimes you forget that he is in his habitat. The speed of thought – the ability to work a crowd – he has been doing it for so long that it flows. Like when he is mid-monologue and a baby gurgles. He pauses and speaks to the infant. ‘Indeed,’ he says, and keeps going as if it is all part of the script.

And yet, as with most of us, Eddie is not easily read. He seems to love entertaining strangers and conversing with an easy charm, but he can also be detached. A vacant, pensive air comes over him as he stares for a minute at an athlete’s footwear or wonders aloud about why he never had a BBC sitcom, talking as if to no one but himself. Finally, the evening reclines into shadow. Eddie’s day – this marathon day – is almost done and everything is winding down.

The camera crew fiddles; the campaign folks discuss the script; and the club members watch the most magnetic event of all: the 100 metres.

Eddie stands with his little blue jacket perched on his shoulders, ready to take it off when it is time to film. But then a change comes over him. Suddenly, the jacket is alive on his shoulders. He turns to the lady beside him pretending to be an Italian policeman in love with his own uniform.

He smiles. “There could be a bank robber going by and he would still be admiring his uniform.” She laughs and Eddie Izzard seems happy. At the end of the day, he’s still doing what he does best.

Making people laugh.

Eddie’s day in numbers

18 – hour working day

2 – salads

10 - films

11 - regional radio interviews

1 – TV interview

10,000 – the number of volunteers he is trying to get into local sport

£0 – how much he gets paid for all of this

#Izzard #eddieizzar #volunteer #sport #spoty

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Scrum Master Interview Questions

Scrum Master Interview QuestionsVivek Jayaraman 17 Apr, 2020Scrum Master interview questions

Before going through the interview questions below, ask yourself how good you know about Scrum and the role of a Scrum Master. Go through some of the Leanpitch resources like videos, blogs, and podcasts/webcasts to get more knowledge on the roles and responsibilities of the Scrum Master. The podcasts and webcasts are available on the Leanpitch mobile app for viewing.

Scrum Master interview questions:

Of all the Scrum ceremonies, which one you can never skip and why?

Which is the most useful ceremony in Scrum which you would like to tell and why?

If one of the team members does not want to participate in the Scrum ceremonies, then how do you handle such situations?

You have identified one good process for the team, which you think is good for the team, but then the team does not want to follow - what will you do as an SM here?

If one of the team members is unable to complete his user stories, Consistently impacting the velocity of the team. How will you, as SM, address the issue?

If team members get sick in between the Sprint, then as an SM, how will you handle his stories?

What is the benefit of estimating user stories in story points overestimating it in time?

As a scrum master, how will you make your team cross-functional and self-organized?

Due to time crunch, if there is an event, need to go away, what would that be?

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How will you handle a scope change?

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What is Technical debt? How will you deal with it?

What is Spike? Are there points or hours applicable for it? If so, how to calculate the efforts?

What is the minimum time for a sprint?

What is Sprint 0 in Scrum?

The Scrum team finished all PBIs in the Sprint, 2 days before. The team can’t take any new PBIs in the current Sprint because the PBIs are large. How will you handle this situation as a Scrum Master?

How will you plan Sprint if programmers can do more programming, but QA cannot complete the testing due to the scope of testing is high?

Consider a story where the change is one line of code but impacts the entire application what could be the story points?

In a matrix organization where team members have set/defined roles (e.g., Programmer, QA, Database Architect, UX Developer, and so on), how will you make them understand the concept of cross-functional teams working culture in a scrum team?

What is the difference between Agile and Scrum?

When will you use the different hats of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and consulting? Give some examples.

What are some of the impediments you helped your teams eliminate?

If the PO is absent for a couple of Sprints, will you take up the Proxy PO role? Justify your answer.

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How will you explain the management that the team has variations in their velocity in every Sprint?

Where is Scrum applicable?

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If you are approached by an Organization to implement Scrum in their organization, how and where will you start?

For software development, what are the other things you need to consider other than Scrum?

What is the velocity?

Explain empiricism with an example.

Explain the purpose of all the Scrum events

What is a definition of done?

What is an acceptance criteria?

Is the definition of done uniquely for each product backlog item?

Why is the Scrum Master expected to be a servant leader?

If scope creeps regularly makes its way into every Sprint, what can be done?

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How will you calculate Sprint Length?

What is vertical slicing?

How do you convince the team members about the value of Scrum?

If one of the team members is unwilling to attend Daily Scrum, how do you approach them?

If the team continually fails to meet the sprint goal, what will you do?

What are some of the responsibilities of a Scrum Master?

How will you make the leadership team understand Scrum?

Scrum and XP both have timeboxes, what is the difference?

Is Scrum applicable everywhere? Why?

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Who crafts a Sprint Goal in Scrum?

What is the core of Scrum?

What is a release, and when can you do a release in Scrum?

What is the difference between the burn-down and burn-up charts?

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Is Scrum Master a facilitator? What do they facilitate?

Let’s say you are a Scrum Master in a service organization. PO comes from the client-side and doesn’t want to spend time with the teams. How do you ensure PO is present for the team’s queries?

Let’s say you are a Scrum Master in a service organization. PO comes from the client-side and doesn’t want to spend time with the teams. How do you ensure that the team’s queries are addressed during the Sprint?

What are the factors that determine the performance of a Scrum Master?

How do Scrum Masters get appraised?

Why do you consider yourself a good Scrum Master?

How do you address team dysfunctions?

What is a Product Backlog item?

Is the bug a product backlog item?

How frequently can we change the Sprint Backlog?

What are the possible reasons for canceling a sprint?

What happens when the Sprint goal gets changed during the middle of Sprint?

What are some of the critical metrics that can help a scrum team?

How many teams can a Scrum Master coach at the same time?

One of the teams that you are coaching doesn’t want to retrospect, and they consider that as a waste of time. How will you help them understand about retrospectives?

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What is the ideal duration for a Sprint?

Why do fortune 500 companies use Scrum?

Why Scrum uses timeboxing?

Can a Product Owner and the Scrum Master be the same person?

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Can a Scrum Master participate in development activities?

There is no full-time Scrum Master for a Scrum Team. Each member in the Development Team

How does testing happen in Scrum? Is it after the development or on the next Sprint?

How do you relate Agile and Scrum?

What are the chances inside Sprint for the Scrum Team to inspect and adapt?

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Project Management Methodologies

Project Management Concepts

Project Management Home

Activity Based Costing

Agile Project Management

Basic Management Skills

Basic Quality Tools

Benchmarking Process

Cause and Effect Diagram

Change Management Process

Communication Blockers

Communication Channels

Communication Methods

Communication Models

Communications Management

Conflict Management

Crisis Management

Critical Chain Scheduling

Critical Path Method

Decision Making Process

Design of Experiment

Effective Communication Skills

Effective Presentation Skills

Enterprise Resource Planning

Event Chain Methodology

Extreme Project Management

Gantt Chart Tool

Just-In-Time Manufacturing

Knowledge Management

Leads, Lags and Floats

Management Best Practices

Management Styles

Management by Objectives

Monte Carlo Analysis

Motivation Theories

Negotiation Skills

Organizational Structures

PERT Estimation Technique

PRINCE2 Project Methodology

Pareto Chart Tool

Powerful Leadership Skills

Process Based Management

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Project Activity Diagram

Project Charter

Project Contract Types

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Project Kick-off Meeting

Project Lessons Learned

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Project Management Methodologies

Introduction

In order to achieve goals and planned results within a defined schedule and a budget, a manager uses a project. Regardless of which field or which trade, there are assortments of methodologies to help managers at every stage of a project from the initiation to implementation to the closure. In this tutorial, we will try to discuss the most commonly used project management methodologies.

A methodology is a model, which project managers employ for the design, planning, implementation and achievement of their project objectives. There are different project management methodologies to benefit different projects.

For example, there is a specific methodology, which NASA uses to build a space station while the Navy employs a different methodology to build submarines. Hence, there are different project management methodologies that cater to the needs of different projects spanned across different business domains.

Project Methodologies

Following are the most frequently used project management methodologies in the project management practice:

1 - Adaptive Project Framework

In this methodology, the project scope is a variable. Additionally, the time and the cost are constants for the project. Therefore, during the project execution, the project scope is adjusted in order to get the maximum business value from the project.

2 - Agile Software Development

Agile software development methodology is for a project that needs extreme agility in requirements. The key features of agile are its short-termed delivery cycles (sprints), agile requirements, dynamic team culture, less restrictive project control and emphasis on real-time communication.

3 - Crystal Methods

In crystal method, the project processes are given a low priority. Instead of the processes, this method focuses more on team communication, team member skills, people and interaction. Crystal methods come under agile category.

4 - Dynamic Systems Development Model (DSDM)

This is the successor of Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology. This is also a subset of agile software development methodology and boasts about the training and documents support this methodology has. This method emphasizes more on the active user involvement during the project life cycle.

5 - Extreme Programming (XP)

Lowering the cost of requirement changes is the main objective of extreme programming. XP emphasizes on fine scale feedback, continuous process, shared understanding and programmer welfare. In XP, there is no detailed requirements specification or software architecture built.

6 - Feature Driven Development (FDD)

This methodology is more focused on simple and well-defined processes, short iterative and feature driven delivery cycles. All the planning and execution in this project type take place based on the features.

7 - Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

This methodology is a collection of best practices in project management. ITIL covers a broad aspect of project management which starts from the organizational management level.

8 - Joint Application Development (JAD)

Involving the client from the early stages with the project tasks is emphasized by this methodology. The project team and the client hold JAD sessions collaboratively in order to get the contribution from the client. These JAD sessions take place during the entire project life cycle.

9 - Lean Development (LD)

Lean development focuses on developing change-tolerance software. In this method, satisfying the customer comes as the highest priority. The team is motivated to provide the highest value for the money paid by the customer.

10 - PRINCE2

PRINCE2 takes a process-based approach to project management. This methodology is based on eight high-level processes.

11 - Rapid Application Development (RAD)

This methodology focuses on developing products faster with higher quality. When it comes to gathering requirements, it uses the workshop method. Prototyping is used for getting clear requirements and re-use the software components to accelerate the development timelines.

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12 - Rational Unified Process (RUP)

RUP tries to capture all the positive aspects of modern software development methodologies and offer them in one package. This is one of the first project management methodologies that suggested an iterative approach to software development.

This is an agile methodology. The main goal of this methodology is to improve team productivity dramatically by removing every possible burden. Scrum projects are managed by a Scrum master.

14 - Spiral

Spiral methodology is the extended waterfall model with prototyping. This method is used instead of using the waterfall model for large projects.

15 - Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

This is a conceptual model used in software development projects. In this method, there is a possibility of combining two or more project management methodologies for the best outcome. SDLC also heavily emphasizes on the use of documentation and has strict guidelines on it.

16 - Waterfall (Traditional)

This is the legacy model for software development projects. This methodology has been in practice for decades before the new methodologies were introduced. In this model, development lifecycle has fixed phases and linear timelines. This model is not capable of addressing the challenges in the modern software development domain.

Conclusion

Selecting the most suitable project management methodology could be a tricky task. When it comes to selecting an appropriate one, there are a few dozens of factors you should consider. Each project management methodology carries its own strengths and weaknesses.

Therefore, there is no good or bad methodology and what you should follow is the most suitable one for your project management requirements.

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Scrum of Scrums: How to Work With Huge Teams

How will we scale scrum?

The scrum framework brings structure and order to some project inside a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It delivers a shippable increment from the product after each sprint and allows an enterprise to improve return through prioritisation. As long as the rules are carried out since its creators intended the outcomes are phenomenal and business value is realised. However what goes on in the event the business requires greater output, many related projects to be synchronised to your deadline or possibly a co-ordinated technical solution? This is where the tactic has a unique.

The Scrum of scrums is a method of co-ordinating teams and it is employed to grow and synchronise the scrum framework in a company to huge scale. As a scrum master I have used this technique to great effect in order to keep complex inter-related projects in sync.

1. The Challenge - Scaling

The challenge in scaling across an organisation lies from the rule which a team should normally have between five and nine members. While that is a guideline high is no alternative to sound judgment, teams should be "lean, mean productive machines".

The challenge gets interesting in the event the business stakeholders wake one morning and say "I wish to deliver quicker, let's put another thirty people on the project". Or if it is said "we need this delivered in 90 days there are three other dependent teams you need to deliver this with." Breaking the news that you wish to limit the team to nine members appears to be to limit the ability in the business to deliver.

This technique helps in these very situations, to start with I explain the way it operates it is important to understand that it depends on every one of the original rules of scrum being carried out correctly, especially product backlog management and prioritisation. For this reason, the item owner's role is vital towards the whole process which should be discussed with the product or service owner(s) and stakeholders involved before starting your this mission in your organisation. Continue reading and you will understand why this is very important.

2. What is Scrum of Scrums?

This can be a meeting held to co-ordinate a set of inter-related scrum teams. The power and ability to scale is within the undeniable fact that one representative from each related team attends the meeting. By doing this an organisation can co-ordinate hundreds of people on different teams.

From each team, a representative has become picked to go to the meeting. The representatives share knowledge.

Once the number of members in the scrum of scrums becomes to large a representative from that meeting can join another meeting as well as the process can continue.

In this meeting, the host asks four questions (inside the same vein as the daily scrum meeting). The questions are:

What have you accomplished since last meeting

What do you try and accomplish prior to next meeting

Are there any impediments/blockers with your way

Are you thinking of doing whatever could produce a blocker/impediment to the project.

The first three questions make an effort to highlight progress, draw attention to targets and surface any issues that need to become addressed to hold the project on course. The last question comes from the undeniable fact that related projects may unknowingly make trouble for each other. For example, in the technology world, one team may deploy code which means vastly more testing for another team.

The meetings may be scheduled to get as frequent needed and they are usually anywhere from daily to bi-weekly. It purely depends around the needs of the programme.

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Common Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers Experienced

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List of Scrum Master Questions for Interview:-

What Is Scrum Sprint?

How The Velocity Of Sprint Is Measured?

What Qualities Should A Good Agile Tester Have?

How To Measure Velocity If Our Iteration Lengths Change?

What Are The Most Important Components Of Agile?

How the Study Board Can Be Defined In Agile?

What Are The Artifacts Of Scrum Process?

What Project Management Tools Are Used In Agile?

What Is Difference Between Epic, User Stories & Tasks?

How Much Time Should A Person Expect To Spend On Scrum master Activities?

What Does A Scrum Burn Down Chart Comprise?

How Qa Can Add Value To An Agile Team?

Explain Velocity In Agile?

What Is A Release Candidate?

Does Maximum Velocity Mean Maximum Productivity?

How Does Agile Testing (development) Methodology Differ From Other Testing (development) Methodologies?

Explain What Is A Product Backlog In Scrum?

How the Tracer Bullet Can Be Used?

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