Scrum PSPO-II Professional Scrum Product Owner II Online Training
Scrum PSPO-II Online Training
The questions for PSPO-II were last updated at Nov 22,2024.
- Exam Code: PSPO-II
- Exam Name: Professional Scrum Product Owner II
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Nov 22,2024
You work for a large financial institution. Your products have many interdependencies: you have mobile, web, and ATM product interfaces to financial products like savings, checking, credit card, and investments. When any of these financial products change, the changes ripple throughout the mobile, web, and ATM clients, and maintaining consistency is challenging.
What should you do to reduce this problem? (choose the best answer)
- A . Form products that are as independent as possible and let each product determine their own release plans, but ensure coordination.
- B . Create a centralized, coordinated cross-product Development Plan to ensure consistency.
- C . Appoint an overall Product Owner to oversee all the products.
- D . Ensure that the PMO manages the inter-product dependencies.
- E . All of the above.
A
Explanation:
What the Scrum Guide says: “Cross-functional teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team. The team model in Scrum is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity.”
The ordering of the Product Backlog is a key mechanism for reducing and eliminating dependencies. Dependencies are things that need to happen for an Agile in scale to complete an increment of value, but that cannot be achieved by the team alone. Dependencies, if not handled correctly, lead to blockers in task execution.
In scrum, the product backlog is the main planning tool used to inform the direction of the team. Broadly speaking, the product backlog consists of tasks (often called stories or user stories) with well-defined acceptance criteria. A good user story is scoped and written to follow INVEST (independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable). The concept of independence is key to the idea of managing external dependencies. If a piece of work is completely independent, it has no dependencies whatsoever. While this is something we should strive for, it is not always attainable. There is value in cross-functional, cross-vertical initiatives, and so we must plan for and manage dependencies.
You cannot get your stakeholders to agree on which features might provide the most value.
How should you resolve this disagreement? (choose the best answer)
- A . All of the above.
- B . Deliver a small part of a feature to customers and gather insights.
- C . Organize an activity where stakeholders can vote and "buy a feature".
- D . Find someone who has higher authority than the stakeholders to make a decision.
B
Explanation:
As uncertainty is high, conducting small part of a feature (experiments) is the best way to test your hypothesis and gather insights.
Which Key Value Area best measures market potential?
- A . Unrealized Value
- B . Current Value
- C . Time-to-market
- D . Ability to Innovate
A
Explanation:
Market potential is an example of Unrealized Value. Measures value that could be realized by meeting all potential needs of the customer or user. Represents a satisfaction gap between a beneficiary’s desired outcome and their current experience. The potential future value that could be realized if the organization met the needs of all potential customers or users.
A Visionary Product Owner tends to: (choose the best answer)
- A . Know all about the details, and about every bug in the software or system.
- B . Support people in their own discovery process, whether it’s about defining goals, clarifying PBIs or analyzing customer needs.
- C . Know all about the Developers’s velocity and predictability and maximizing output in order to deliver all features.
- D . Focus on the future, on changing the status quo and helping people to see what could be, instead of
what is.
D
Explanation:
A visionary is one who can envision the future. Some visionaries simply imagine what does not yet exist but might some day, as some forms of “visioning” (or gazing) provide a glimpse into the possible future. The Visionary is also referred to as the Inspirator, Challenger of the Status Quo, the Dreamer or the Imaginative Product Owner.
Which of the following are preferred stances of the Product Owner? Select all that apply
- A . The Decision Maker
- B . The Collaborator
- C . The Business Analyst
- D . The Visionary
- E . The Founder
A,B,D
Explanation:
The Business Analyst and the founder are not among the preferred stances. The other options are all valid.
When value can be measured infrequently, it becomes a … Choose the best answer
- A . Leading indicator
- B . Lagging indicator
B
Explanation:
When value can be measured infrequently, it becomes a lagging indicator.
Leading indicators detect changes in KVMs (Key Value Measures) with relative rapidity, enabling faster response, while lagging indicators may only show changes after a long delay. Many indicators are neither intrinsically leading or lagging, but only become one or the other depending on how frequently they are measured. Thus, when revenue is measured every day, it is a leading indicator, but when it can only be measured monthly or less frequently it becomes a lagging indicator.
Which of the following activities should a Product Owner never do? (choose the best answer)
- A . Decide when to release the product increment
- B . Establish a Product Goal
- C . Accept work done during the Sprint
- D . Dictate the Sprint Goal
D
Explanation:
The whole Scrum Team then collaborates to define a Sprint Goal that communicates why the Sprint is valuable to stakeholders. The Sprint Goal must be finalized prior to the end of Sprint Planning.
The Product Backlog: (choose the best two answers)
- A . only contains items defined by the Product Owner.
- B . is visible to the Scrum Team and stakeholders.
- C . is ordered by the Product Owner.
- D . is managed by the Scrum Master.
- E . must be finalized before the first Sprint can start.
- F . is only described through User Stories.
B,C
Explanation:
The Product Owner is responsible for the content, availability, and ordering of the Product Backlog. The initial creation of the Product Backlog is lays out the initially known and best-understood requirements and evolves as the product and the environment in which it will be used evolves. It constantly changes to identify what the product needs to be appropriate, competitive, and useful. Scrum relies on transparency and the perceived state of the artifacts in order to make product decisions. Incomplete transparency can result in flawed decision making, diminished value, and added risk.
You want to know the potential value that your product could, but does not yet, deliver.
Which of the following is the most helpful? (choose the best answer)
- A . All of the above.
- B . Competitor research and their market shares.
- C . Testimonials about why your customers choose your product.
- D . None of the above.
- E . Asking your customers what they like about the product.
- F . Interviewing users who tried your product but did not buy.
F
Explanation:
Interviewing users who tried your product but did not buy, is a good way to obtain the potential value. Unrealized Value. The potential future value that could be realized if the organization met the needs of all potential customers or users . Looking at Unrealized Value helps an organization toLooking at Unrealized Value helps an organization to maximize the value that it realizes from a product or service over time.
As a Product Owner, who can you invite to the Sprint Review? (choose the best answer)
- A . Your product’s investors/sponsors.
- B . Your clients/customers
- C . Your end users.
- D . Your internal stakeholders
- E . All of the above.
E
Explanation:
The Product Owner is free to invite anyone he thinks can provide valuable input in order to make the best decision regarding next steps.
The entire Scrum Team and key stakeholders invited by the Product Owner.