Which THREE of these statements about Scrum theory are accurate as the framework defines it?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 1. Understanding and applying the Scrum framework hard
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Correct Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation inside a containing event, the Sprint
Correct. The Sprint is the container and Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective sit inside it — which is why the same framework is described elsewhere as providing cadence through five events. Four inside one.
Correct The empirical pillars are transparency, inspection and adaptation
Correct. Those three are the pillars, and the events exist because they implement them.
Correct Adaptation becomes more difficult when the people involved are not empowered or self-managing
Correct. This is why self-management is not a cultural nicety in Scrum: a team that must seek permission to change its plan cannot adapt at the speed inspection reveals the need to.
Not correct The empirical pillars are commitment, focus and courage
Wrong. Those are three of the five Scrum values, which are a different list serving a different purpose: values give direction to behaviour, pillars describe how the empirical process works.
Not correct Empiricism means the team does not plan, and responds only to what happens
Wrong, and it is the caricature that puts organisations off Scrum. Scrum plans constantly — at every Sprint Planning and again at every Daily Scrum. Empiricism changes what the plan is based on, not whether there is one.
Why
Two lists get confused constantly and the exam knows it. The pillars — transparency, inspection, adaptation — describe the mechanics of an empirical process. The values — commitment, focus, openness, respect, courage — describe how people have to behave for that process to produce trust rather than theatre. Count the events the same careful way: five events in total, four of them held inside the fifth.
Where this comes from
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- Scrum Guide section Scrum Theory
- What it says
- Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint.
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