Question 62: Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?

  • The consistency reduces complexity

  • The place can be named

  • The Product Owner demands it

  • Rooms are hard to book and this lets it be booked in advance

Overall explanation

  • The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team.
  • The Daily Scrum is held every day of the Sprint. At it, the Development Team plans work for the next 24 hours.
  • This optimizes team collaboration and performance by inspecting the work since the last Daily Scrum and forecasting upcoming Sprint work.
  • The Daily Scrum is held at the same time and place each day to reduce complexity.

Question 83 - The Daily Scrum is an event that happens every day. What would be three key concerns if the frequency were to be lowered to every two or three days?

Choose 3 answers.

  • The Scrum Master loses the ability to update the Gantt chart property

  • Opportunities to inspect and adapt the Sprint Backlog are lost

  • Impediments are raised and resolved more slowly

  • The Sprint plan becomes inaccurate

  • Too much work is spent updating the Scrum board before the meeting

  • The Product Owner cannot accurately report progress to the stakeholders

Overall explanation

  • Daily Scrums improve communications, eliminate other meetings, identify impediments to development for removal, highlight and promote quick decision-making, and improve the Development Team’s level of knowledge. This is a key inspect and adapt meeting.

Question 100 - During the Sprint, the Development Team tracks the remaining work and the trend at least

  • Every week

  • Everyday

  • Whenever they have time

Overall explanation

  • The Development Team uses the Daily Scrum to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and to inspect how progress is trending toward completing the work in the Sprint Backlog.