A Scrum Team is agreeing what it will actually put in front of stakeholders at the end of each Sprint. Which TWO of the following statements about the Increment are true in Scrum?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 3. Managing products with agility medium
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The options
Choose 2.
Correct Each Increment is additive to all prior Increments and thoroughly verified, so that all Increments work together
Correct. An Increment is not a standalone deliverable sitting beside the last one — it is the product as it now stands, which is why verification across the whole thing matters rather than verification of the new part alone.
Not correct Exactly one Increment is created per Sprint, and it is completed on the final day
Wrong on both halves. Multiple Increments may be created within a Sprint, and an Increment is born the moment a Product Backlog item meets the Definition of Done — which is usually not the final afternoon.
Correct To provide value the Increment must be usable, and work that does not meet the Definition of Done is not part of it
Correct. Usable is the bar for value and Done is the bar for membership — an unusable Increment delivers nothing, and undone work never joined the Increment in the first place.
Not correct An Increment becomes valuable once the stakeholders have approved it at the Sprint Review
Wrong, and it is the plausible one because a Review really does happen. But Scrum has no approval step anywhere in it — what makes an Increment capable of delivering value is that it is usable and meets the Definition of Done, not that someone said yes to it.
Why
The Increment carries three properties worth holding together: it is additive and verified, so it is the whole product rather than a slice; it is usable, which is what makes it capable of delivering value; and it consists only of work meeting the Definition of Done. Candidates lose marks by adding a fourth property Scrum does not have — sign-off. Nothing in the framework makes value conditional on someone's approval at an event.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Increment
- What it says
- Each Increment is additive to all prior Increments and thoroughly verified, ensuring that all Increments work together.
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