IPA FE Subject A 2024 Question 12
A question IPA Japan published in 令和６年度 基本情報技術者試験 科目A 公開問題 問12, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Among the events that are defined in Scrum, which is one of the agile development methods, and are conducted in a sprint, which of the following is held every day at a fixed time and at a fixed place, and is the event where all members of the development team share the progress since the previous one and the upcoming work plan?
Explanation
Daily Scrum — the one Scrum event held every day of the sprint, at the same time and place, where the team shares its progress and plans the next work.
Scrum fixes a sprint as a time-box of one month or less, and runs four events inside it. Only the Daily Scrum recurs daily: a 15-minute meeting, held at the same time and place to keep it simple, where the developers inspect the progress since the last Daily Scrum toward the sprint goal and adapt the plan for the coming day's work. The other three events are each held once per sprint.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) Sprint planning — opens the sprint, once: the team decides the sprint goal, which product backlog items to take and how to deliver them
- •(b) Sprint retrospective — closes the sprint, once: the team inspects how it worked (people, processes, tools) and plans improvements
- •(c) Sprint review — near the end of the sprint, once: the team shows the increment to stakeholders and adapts the product backlog
Key rule: Scrum events in order: sprint planning (start), Daily Scrum (every day, 15 minutes), sprint review (inspect the product), sprint retrospective (inspect the way of working).
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