Product Backlog Management Skills – (Free) Practice Assessment

You are a Scrum Master. For many months, the Scrum Team has been struggling during Sprint Planning. Developers are constantly arguing about how large Product Backlog items are. Which of the following might help them to create transparency over these Product Backlog items? (choose the best answer)

The Product Backlog is one of the three artefacts in the Scrum framework. Who is accountable for managing it? (choose the best answer)

The Sprint Backlog exists to reflect the plan for how the Developers will create a useable increment. What is the purpose of the Product Backlog? (choose the best two answers).

How should Product Backlog items be ordered by the Product Owner? (choose the best answer)

The Product Backlog is a living artefact that is frequently adapted and changed. How frequently should it be updated? (choose the best answer)

One of the Product Owner’s goals is to keep customers happy so that they will continue to buy the product. Your Product Owner, Johnny, has recently received a request from a customer that he thinks is brilliant. The customer believes all other customers and stakeholders will love it too. How should Johnny manage this new addition? (choose the best answer)

As a Product Owner, everyone at the organisation must respect your opinion. However, one senior stakeholder has come to you with a very strong idea about how the product should be changed to meet the customers needs. This stakeholder has minimal contact with the users of the product and you do not agree with their idea. How should you handle this stakeholder’s opinion? (choose the best answer)

A particularly grumpy looking stakeholder demands to know why you have decided to order the Product Backlog in a specific way. They ask you this during a Sprint Review with other people present. How should you, as a Product Owner, handle this interruption? (choose the best answer)

You have just got a new job as a Product Owner on a large, mature product. The Product Backlog has almost 1,500 Product Backlog items on it. What steps would you take in this scenario? (choose the best answer)

Stakeholders and customers are an essential part of your product’s success. Which technique can you use to get a better understanding of your ‘types’ of consumer? (choose the best answer)

For several Sprints in a row the Scrum Team have struggled to craft a Sprint Goal due to the Developers having a poor understanding of the Product Backlog. The items contained within it are not particularly well refined and use an inconsistent technique to write them. As the Developers don’t understand the ‘why’, they often jump straight into technical solutions for the ‘what’. As a Product Owner, what can you do to help? (choose the best answer)

How many Product Backlog items should there be in a ‘healthy’ Product Backlog? (choose the best answer)

Sprint Reviews are an opportunity to work with stakeholders to review your product and provide feedback. What might the impacts be if the Scrum Team are not using these opportunities effectively over a long period of time? (choose all that apply)

Six months have elapsed with you as the Product Owner on a new product. For a variety of reasons, Sprint Reviews have not been used well, and stakeholders have stopped coming to the Sprint Review. They believe they can get all of the information they need by looking at the reports your Scrum Team are creating for them. Why is it important to encourage them to attend Sprint Reviews? (choose the best two answers)

The Sprint Review is one of the four formal Sprint Events. Which items are likely to be on the agenda to discuss at Sprint Review? (choose all that apply)

Where should the Product Backlog be stored? (choose the best answer)

Which of the following is considered a bad practice when it comes to the Product Backlog? (choose the best answer)

During a recent Product Backlog Refinement session, a Developer highlights that there are multiple Product Backlog items that are no longer needed as the functionality has already been implemented. The rest of the Developers agree. What should happen to these unneeded Product Backlog items? (choose the best answer)

As you are walking around the office, a stakeholder engages you in a conversation. They work for the marketing team and need a concrete date for when the next release will be available for customers to use. Your expectation is that it should be in around two weeks. How should you answer this question from the stakeholder? (choose the best answer)

Product Backlog items go through various stages of refinement throughout their existence. What levels of decomposition are required to ensure a Product Backlog item is ready for work? (choose the best answer)

Your product is in trouble. To remedy it, the Product Owner wishes to have two Product Goals so that progress can be made on two things at once. What are the likely impacts of this decision? (choose the best two answers)

All Product Backlog items must be written in a consistent style with the same attributes. (choose the best answer)

Which of the following descriptions best describes the practice of Kano Analysis? (choose the best answer)

Developers have asked you, the Product Owner, to make the Product Backlog more transparent to them. Which of the following activities would not achieve this goal? (choose the best answer)

During a recent Sprint Review, you have identified a new area of value that the organisation could exploit. You know this will need to be a separate product, but it is likely that your current team would work on both products at once. Which of the following is true? (choose the best answer)

It is important that a Scrum Team understands their customers’ needs. Why should the characteristics of the customers be clear in the Product Backlog items? (choose the best answer)

After seven Sprints working on a particular Product Goal, you realise that the stakeholders aren’t excited by the value you had hoped it would deliver. What actions might you take in this situation? (choose the best two answers)

Which of the following best describes the concept of a product roadmap? (choose the best answer)

There are many sources of requirements that can be added to the Product Backlog. Which of the following are considered stakeholders of the product? (choose the best answer)

The Definition of Ready is a practice used in many Scrum Teams to improve the quality of the Product Backlog items. Which of the following is true about the Definition of Ready? (choose the best answer)