Agile Delivery Method

Scrum is often summarized as three roles, five events, and three artifacts. Name them.

How are sprints represented in SAP Cloud ALM, and what does the system pre-populate for you?

A team debates how to structure an SAP implementation project. What three high-level delivery approaches are on the table?

What is the core mechanism that lets an agile approach react to changing business needs where waterfall cannot?

Why does the book recommend Scrum specifically when adopting agile with SAP Cloud ALM?

Before an agile Scrum project even begins, what must be in place for it to succeed?

Why shouldn't a team follow the Scrum textbook strictly, and what should they define up front instead?

What is the definition of done (DoD), and how is it used at sprint end?

How is time structured in a Scrum project, and what is the target output of each cycle?

Who are stakeholders in Scrum, and how do they relate to the method itself?

Which groups of stakeholders can raise requirements into a Scrum project, and what drives each?

In Scrum, what does the definition of ready formalize?

What authority does the product owner hold, and how do requirements get captured?

What is the product backlog, and how does the product owner keep it healthy?

How large should a Scrum development team be, and who belongs on it?

The scrum master doesn't manage the team's tasks, so what is their actual job?

What happens during sprint planning, and what does it produce?

What is the format and purpose of the daily Scrum?

How does a graphical Scrum board support the daily Scrum?

What is the sprint review, and what is demonstrated in it?

Your team just closed a sprint. What is the sprint retrospective for, and how long should you budget for it?

A sprint ends but some stories are unfinished or the product owner rejected them. Where do those stories go?

In SAP Cloud ALM, how do you actually carry out sprint planning against your user stories?

Which SAP Cloud ALM capabilities support the daily Scrum and tracking day-to-day progress?

What does SAP Cloud ALM give you to run a sprint review?

How does SAP Cloud ALM help capture and follow up on impediments raised in a sprint retrospective?

Which single Scrum ceremony has no functional support in SAP Cloud ALM?

How is the product backlog itself surfaced in SAP Cloud ALM?

In the SAP Activate roadmap, which agile tasks belong to the Prepare and Explore phases?

In the SAP Activate roadmap, which agile tasks fall under Realize, Deploy, and Run?

Within the SAP Activate method, which phase is where the agile work actually happens, and what feeds it?

What is a requirements backlog, and who turns its items into user stories?

What has to be true before the realize phase is ready to begin, and what does the baseline mean?

You still have open stories but the minimum release scope is done. What triggers the deploy phase, and what happens to the leftovers?

In SAP Cloud ALM scheduling, what exactly is a timebox and what can it be attached to?

When you assign a timebox to a task in SAP Cloud ALM, what does the task inherit, and what else can you set on it?

Which of the three timebox elements does each project method rely on: waterfall, agile, or hybrid?

Where do you maintain project timeboxes, and what happens to tasks when you reschedule a phase or sprint?

You create a new SAP Cloud ALM project without an SAP Activate roadmap. Which phases and milestones are already there?

On the Timeboxes tab in edit mode, which phases can you switch off, and can you remove the predefined milestones?

Where does a project manager see the current phase, and what warns them a phase is running late?

You assign a task to a sprint in SAP Cloud ALM. How does the system decide which phase that sprint belongs to?

What phase does a task with no timebox element land in, and how does that distinguish the requirements backlog from the product backlog?

Where can you actually see a task's timebox element and its phase in SAP Cloud ALM?

What naming advice does SAP Cloud ALM give for sprints relative to phases, and when does it matter most?

Purely agile versus hybrid for an SAP implementation project: what does each buy you?

What does planning your sprints in advance let you do with backlog items?

How do you switch a project's current phase in SAP Cloud ALM, and where is the project manager shown?

In SAP Cloud ALM, what building blocks make up a project's timeboxes, and which one is optional?

Beyond the phases SAP Cloud ALM delivers, how do you add, mark, schedule, and switch off phases in a project?

When is it fine to run a SAP Cloud ALM project on phase periods alone instead of building a sprint plan?

Do sprints have to line up with phases in SAP Cloud ALM, and what happens to the phase link if you delete a sprint?

How do milestones differ from phases and sprints as timeboxes, and how are they ordered?

After assigning a phase or sprint to a task in SAP Cloud ALM, why might that task's due date stop moving when you shift the timebox?

What role do quality gates play between project phases, and how many should you plan?

Walk through creating a quality gate in SAP Cloud ALM, and note which field is mandatory.

How do you capture a quality gate's measurable criteria, and what should each checklist item record?

What distinguishes project tasks from roadmap tasks, and how do you tie one to a quality gate?

In agile delivery, where do brand-new requirements that surface mid-project get handled?

Why can't you just hand a fresh requirement straight to the development team during sprint execution?

You open a fresh SAP Cloud ALM project expecting product owner, scrum master, and development team roles to be there. Are they?

Where in a quality gate do you link it to a milestone, and how can that link be visualized?

Why has the classic waterfall approach fallen out of favor for SAP implementation projects?

Which statuses can a quality gate checklist item hold, and how does a follow-up task drive a gate to Accepted?

Who reviews a quality gate before a phase transition, and what should you do if the check surfaces a risk?

In Scrum terms, what is a sprint, and how does SAP Cloud ALM expect sprints to be planned?

Before defining sprints, what must you settle with the release management team so sprints fit the release cycle?

Where and how do you create sprints as timebox elements in SAP Cloud ALM?

Why would you lock future sprints with the lock icon before planning user stories?

In display mode, how does SAP Cloud ALM organize sprints, and when does it show a phase next to one?

What is a sprint concept meant to achieve, and what does it need to define?

Trace the steps from a requirement to its implementation within a sprint in SAP Cloud ALM.

Why do the phases and dates you define matter beyond just scheduling?