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Agile & Scrum Basics

What is Agile?

What is Agile Manifesto?

4 Core Values of Agile

12 Agile Principles

Agile Frameworks – Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP & Lean

Agile vs Scrum - What's the Difference?

What is Scrum Framework?

Role of Scrum Master in Scrum

Role of Product Owner in Scrum

Role of Development Team in Scrum

Quiz 1 - Scrum Roles

What is a Sprint in Scrum?

What is Sprint Planning?

What is a Daily Stand-up in Scrum?

What is Sprint Review?

What is a Sprint Retrospective in Scrum?

Quiz 2 - Scrum Events

What is Product Backlog in Scrum?

What is the Sprint Backlog in Scrum?

What is the Increment in Scrum?

What is Backlog Refinement?

Quiz 3 - Scrum Artifacts

User Stories & Acceptance Criteria

Quiz 4 - User Stories

Story Points & Estimation in Scrum

What is Velocity in Scrum?

What is Definition of Done?

Quiz 5 - Story Points & Estimation

Interview Question 1 - Tell us about yourself / Tell us about your experience

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Interview Question 2 - Describe your day as a Scrum Master

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Interview Question 3 - Where do you see yourself in 5 years ?

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Interview Question 4 - What are your Strengths ?

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Interview Question 5 - What are your Weaknesses ?

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Interview Question 6 - Can you tell me about the latest projects you are working on ?

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Interview Question 7- What kind reports do you prepare for your projects ?

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Interview Question 8 - Do you have customer handling experience ? If yes how extensive was it ?

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Interview Question 9 - How do you Manage Delays in your project ?

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Interview Question 10- How are Risks handled in your Project? / How will you Manage Risks?

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Interview Question 11 - Explain your delivery cycle for clients ? Can you explain your development and deployment strategy with the tools you used ?

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Interview Question 12 - Will you be able to take up multiple projects as a Scrum Master ?

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Interview Question 13 - How would you handle distributed teams ?

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Interview Question 14 - How do you handle team conflicts ?

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Interview Question 15 - What would you do to improve the technical and domain specific skills of your team ?

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Interview Question 16 - What are the differences between agile and waterfall models?

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Interview Question 17 - Which among the 12 principles of Agile is the most important one ?

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Interview Question 18 - What do you understand by servant leadership ?

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Interview Question 19 - What according to you are the most important skills a Scrum Master should have ?

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Interview Question 20 - What is a user story, how to create and estimate them ?

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Interview Question 21 - How to write user stories and who writes it ? Explain with examples ?

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Interview Question 22 - What are story points?

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Interview Question 23 - Why story points are preferred for estimation in agile ?

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Interview Question 24- What is a spike? How to estimate a spike ?

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Interview Question 25 - What is Velocity ? How do you measure the Velocity of your team ?

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Interview Question 26 - What is a Velocity Chart ?

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Interview Question 27 - How do you handle the velocity of uncompleted stories in your sprint ?

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Interview Question 28 - How do you limit unfinished stories in your upcoming sprints ?

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Interview Question 29 - What are Burn Up Charts ?

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Interview Question 30 - What are Burn Down Charts ?

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Interview Question 31 - What is the difference between scope and quality ?

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Interview Question 32 - What is a Minimal Viable Product in Scrum (MVP ) ?

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Interview Question 33 - Explain different prioritization techniques to prioritize product backlog ?

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Interview Question 34 - Explain different estimation techniques you are familiar with?

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Interview Question 35 - What is the difference between Definition Of Done and Acceptance Criteria?

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Interview Question 36 - How in an agile set up you provide release date to customers ? How to plan agile releases ?

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Interview Question 37 - What are Sprint Retrospectives ? How to make them interactive ?

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Interview Question 38 - What is the purpose of a Sprint?

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Interview Question 39 - Tell us about an incidence where you solved some issue that helped your team ?

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Interview Question 40 - Was there any incident where you had to CANCEL a Sprint ? If yes what were your next steps ?

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Interview Question 41 - Describe a scenario where you had to take changes in the middle of the sprint ?

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Interview Question 42 - Can you share an instance where you disagreed with senior management / product owner? How did you address the situation constructively?

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Interview Question 43 - How do you handle difficult people in your team ? Share an example

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Interview Question 44 - A team always follows scrum ceremonies still is not productive? What could be possible reasons and what are your suggestions ?

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Interview Question 45 - How to handle dominating but knowledgeable and experienced person in a team ?

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Interview Question 46 - How to handle situation where team members miss daily stand ups ?

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Interview Question 47 - What is Scrum of Scrums and what purpose does it serve ?

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Interview Question 48 - What is scaled agile and why is it needed in an organization ?

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Interview Question 49 - Can you explain the key elements of the SAFe framework?

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Interview Question 50 - Have you ever used Kanban methodology in any of your projects ? Express your understanding on Kanban ?

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