Product Owner True or False

True False Question

1. x The Product Owner is required to attend the Daily Scrum.
2. x The Product Owner accepts or rejects the Sprint PBIs in the Sprint Review
meeting.
3. x The best time to estimate PBIs is during the Sprint Planning meeting.
4. x The Product Owner updates the Release burn-up or burn-down chart at the
end of each Sprint.
5. x The Product Owner is welcome to attend the Sprint Retrospective.
6. x The Delivery Team chooses which PBIs from the Product Backlog are
candidates for the Sprint Backlog.
7. x The Product Owner is a member of the Scrum Team.
8. x The Delivery Team can suggest items for the Product Backlog.
9. x PBI priorities are decided by the ScrumMaster.
10. x Stakeholders are encouraged to request changes directly to the Delivery Team
to save time for the Product Owner.
11. x The Product Vision is a short, high level description of why we are building the
Product.
12. x All User Stories are written by the Product Owner.
13. x The Delivery Team needs full details of each PBI in order to estimate the size of
each.
14. x The Product Owner specifies the Delivery Team’s Definition of Done.
15. x Team flow is smoother if the Product Owner prepares candidate PBIs 2 to 3
Sprints ahead of development.
16. x A Product Owner’s responsibility is to maximize the value of the Product.
17. x Only one Sprint is planned at a time.
18. x An unfinished PBI is automatically carried over to the next Sprint.
19. x A detailed Product Requirements Document will improve the Scrum Team’s
ability to respond to customer needs.
20. x The Product Owner can replace one PBI in the Sprint Backlog with another
during the Sprint.
21. x The main purpose of the Sprint Review is to get Product feedback from the
Stakeholders.
22. x When Product delivery is constrained by a deadline, the primary control
variable is scope.
23. x The ScrumMaster can make priority decisions on behalf of the Product Owner.
24. x The Scrum Team can request an Abnormal Termination if the Sprint Plan is
significantly invalidated or interrupted by external factors.
25. x For a large project, a Scrum Team may require more than one Product Owner.
26. x The ScrumMaster controls the product development budget.
27. x For most efficient flow, the Delivery Team should route all Product Owner
questions through the ScrumMaster.
28. x The Product Owner participates in designing and improving the Scrum Team’s
process.
29. x The Scrum Team can adjust the Sprint Backlog during the Sprint by adding or
removing PBIs to fill the available time as long as a sustainable pace is
maintained.
30. x A Product Owner who works with more than one Delivery Team will be a
bottleneck.

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