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What is the role of the ScrumMaster?
The ScrumMaster ensures that the team is productive, facilitates the daily Scrum, enables close cooperation across all roles and functions, and removes barriers that prevent the team from being effective.
What is the purpose of the sprint backlog?
The sprint backlog contains the highest-priority items from the product backlog to be completed within a sprint.
What is the purpose of the sprint retrospective?
The sprint retrospective is a meeting in which the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process based on a review of the actual performance of the development team.
Study Notes
Scrum Roles
- Product Owner: Responsible for business value, decides on work and prioritization, and maintains the product backlog.
- ScrumMaster: Ensures team productivity, facilitates daily Scrum, promotes cooperation, and removes barriers.
- Scrum Team/Development Team: A cross-functional team of 5-9 people who organize themselves and work to produce desired results for each sprint (usually 2-4 weeks).
Scrum Artifacts
- Product Backlog: A prioritized list of features by business value.
- Sprint Backlog: Highest-priority items from the product backlog for completion within a sprint.
- Burndown Chart: Shows cumulative work remaining in a sprint on a day-by-day basis.
Scrum Ceremonies
- Sprint Planning Session: A meeting to select work from the product backlog for delivery during a sprint.
- Daily Scrum: A short meeting for the development team to share progress, challenges, and plan work for the day.
- Sprint Reviews: A meeting where the team demonstrates completed work to the product owner.
- Sprint Retrospectives: A meeting to review and improve the product and process based on actual performance.
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