Scrum PSPO-II Professional Scrum Product Owner II Online Training
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The questions for PSPO-II were last updated at Nov 23,2024.
- Exam Code: PSPO-II
- Exam Name: Professional Scrum Product Owner II
- Certification Provider: Scrum
- Latest update: Nov 23,2024
Which of the following are true when it comes to scaling the Product Owner accountability?
- A . Select all that apply
- B . A large Product should have a Chief Product Owner
- C . The Product Owner can be assisted by the Developers
- D . Each Product has a Product Owner
- E . There is only 1 Product Backlog per Product
- F . Each Product has one Product Owner
C,D,E,F
Explanation:
Scrum does not include a Chief Product Owner. All the other options are valid.
You have many customers on different versions of the same product. Most of your time and effort is spent maintaining all of the product variations. This leaves you with little time to invest in product improvements.
Which of the following would best help you improve effectiveness to deliver new value? (choose the best answer)
- A . Examining Unrealized Value measures.
- B . Examining Current Value measures.
- C . All of the above.
- D . Examining Time to Market measures
- E . None of the above.
- F . Examining Ability to Innovate measures.
F
Explanation:
Needing to maintain multiple variations of a product can impede an organization from being able to deliver new capabilities and value as an effort needs to be spread across many products.
You want to improve your team’s Ability to Innovate.
Which of the following actions might help? (choose the best answer)
- A . Reduce the number of product variants.
- B . Improve the cross-functional skills of your team.
- C . Establish "No Meetings" days to help increase focus.
- D . All of the above.
D
Explanation:
All of these actions will enable the team to focus on value-added activities by reducing overhead and distractions.
Example: A variety of things can impede an organization from being able to deliver new capabilities and value: spending too much time remedying poor product quality, needing to maintain multiple variations of a product due to lack of operational excellence, lack of 9 decentralized decision-making, inability to hire and inspire talented, passionate teammembers, and so on. As low-value features and systemic impediments accumulate, more budget and time is consumed maintaining the product or overcoming impediments, reducing its available capacity to innovate. In addition, anything that prevents users or customers from benefiting from innovation, such as hard to assemble/install products or new versions of products, will also reduce A2I.
The CEO questions Mike, the Product Owner, on the data showing the usage rates. He believes feature usage is not the right measure. You are the Product Owner, you have confirmed that the data is accurate and determine that the data is valuable to the team and product.
What should you do? (choose the best answer)
- A . Continue to measure the usage feature but not publish the data.
- B . Continue to measure and publish the data and use it to inform your decisions.
- C . Stop measuring to appease the CEO.
B
Explanation:
Values of Scrum: openness and transparency. It means you have to publish your data, your result to stakeholders (transparency = everyone is on the same page, openness = let them discuss the results). Then use the data to inform your decisions.
Dereck is a Product Owner of a product with a variety of stakeholders. The stakeholders are pressing Yasmine to add all of their feature requests into the next release. Each one says that their feature is urgent. As Product Owner, Yasmine has confirmed that their requests are indeed important.
What should Yasmine do? (choose the best answer)
- A . Iteratively and incrementally release when single outcomes are fullfilled, even though not all features are done.
- B . Delegate prioritization to the Product Director in order to protect the Product Backlog.
- C . Hire additional team members in order to manage the extra work.
- D . Release only when all features have been completed.
A
Explanation:
Releasing your product to customers and users early and often will provide you with valuable information to help you to find out if you have delivered value for them and making future decisions. The sooner something can be released, the quicker you can make informed decisions. It is not possible to fully determine the value of a Product Backlog Item upfront. Only after you’ve released something to the customers/users and received feedback only then can you validate the value proposition.
How can organizations benefit from creating and running experiments? (choose the best answer)
- A . Experiments can help organizations validate assumptions.
- B . Experiments can help organizations test whether features are delivering value.
- C . All of the above.
- D . None of the above.
- E . Experiments can help organizations test how effective an improvement is.
- F . Experiments can help organizations determine the feasibility of a goal.
C
Explanation:
In a complex domain, cause and effect can only be deduced in retrospect. Experimentation helps to make unknowns known.
What might indicate to a Product Owner that they need to work more with the Scrum Team? (choose the best answer)
- A . The increment presented at the Sprint Review does not reflect their expectations.
- B . The acceptance criteria for the Product Backlog items do not appear to be complete.
- C . They are not working full time with the Scrum Team.
- D . People frequently leave the Scrum Team
A
Explanation:
The product owner should work mor with the Scrum Team, if the increment presented at the SprintReview does not reflect what she thought she had asked for.
Dereck is a Product Owner of a scaled product development effort with multiple Scrum Teams involved. He is stretched thin and is unable to spend enough time with all of the teams.
Which of the following strategies would be the most helpful? (choose the best answer)
- A . Hire Business Analysts to assist the Product Owner.
- B . Move towards a scaled Scrum framework
- C . Delegate some of the Product Owner work to the Scrum Teams.
- D . All of the above.
- E . Split the Product Backlog and add a Product Owner to each in order to spread the work
C
Explanation:
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.
How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals. The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:
● Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;
● Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
● Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
● Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable.
Which of the following statements is true: (choose the best answer)
- A . The more time spent defining and reviewing project requirements helps to increase the chances of success.
- B . Empirical approaches are best suited for simple problems.
- C . Spending more time identifying and mitigating risk helps to increase the chance of success.
- D . Delivering a solution and gathering feedback provides valuable insights for what to do next.
D
Explanation:
The most important stakeholders to satisfy are the end-users. Gathering feedback is an important step in understanding their needs and what should be done next.
When the Product Backlog is updated? (choose the best answer)
- A . Before the Sprint Planning to know the total amount of work that needs to complete within a Sprint.
- B . All of the above.
- C . It is updated as either the new information or the insights emerge.
- D . After the Daily Scrum to ensure an accurate daily overview of project progress.
- E . The Product Owner should not do that. It’s the Developers’s responsibility.
C
Explanation:
The Product Backlog is a living artifact. It evolves throughout the product life cycle. It is updated as either the new information or the insights emerge. The Product Owner could update the Product Backlog anytime. She/he does not have to wait for any formal Sprint events.