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What part of the capacity of the Development Team does Product Backlog refinement usually consume?

Last post 10:09 am August 7, 2024 by Shivani Bhardwaj.
4 replies
06:27 am July 29, 2024

I was solving one of the mock tests where this question was asked. Three of the options were containing answers in percentage and last was the dev team is not authorized for backlog refinement.

 

Dev team is involved in backlog refinement. So last option is incorrect. But my point is no where in scrum guide percentage of capacity is mentioned. Can anyone suggest me the correct answer and how to handle such questions during mock test or real exam? 


03:51 pm July 29, 2024

Which mock test were you using?

In previous versions of the Scrum Guide, there was a recommendation that teams reserve about 10% of their capacity for Product Backlog Refinement. However, this was removed from more recent versions. If the mock test is stating this recommendation as a fact, not only is it incorrect as it was never a requirement, but it also calls into question every other question since it doesn't reflect the most recent thinking about Scrum as its defined in the Scrum Guide.


04:40 pm July 29, 2024

Enough to have a Product Backlog with enough items to be pulled into a Sprint that are fully understood by the entire Scrum Team and stakeholders. 

I echo @Thomas' sentiments about the assessment.  There are a lot of free and paid resources on the internet that cause more harm than good when trying to understand the Scrum framework. Study the official Scrum Guide that is free for all. It provides the current information on the Scrum framework. It is revised periodically.  Resources from other places can not be guaranteed to be updated at all.


06:24 pm July 29, 2024

Strictly speaking the Developers are not "authorized" for Product Backlog refinement, because no authorization is needed. They'd do it anyway, and they would refine it enough. Scrum isn't about authority, it's about accountability.

So the last answer is arguably the least worst...but it is abundantly clear that the framers of the question do not understand the present Scrum Guide, and hence you can have little confidence in the test they have produced.


09:30 am August 7, 2024

thank moto x3m


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