Scrum Master Interview Questions.

6 months back, I was eagerly looking for a job change and attended interviews with various IT companies in Delhi and NCR reason. I have collected below Interview questions based on my experiences in job interviews. I was able to get an offer letter from 3 reputed IT companies with just one month of preparation. Below is the list of Interview questions.

 

1. What are your roles and responsibilities in the agile team?  

2. What is your team Matrix?

3. What is your role as a Scrum Master?

4. What is the difference between the Scrum Master and Project Manager?

5. Tell me about your day to day working

6. Who is the product owner in your project and what’s his role?

7. How do you calculate story points?

8. What are the attributes of a good user story in agile?

9. How do you plan a sprint? What is the duration of a sprint planning meeting?

10. What is your team's Sprint duration any why?

11. How do you draw a Burndown chart?

12. What are the different roles in Scrum?

13. What are the different Artifacts in Scrum?

14. What is your team’s velocity?

15. What is the difference between capacity and velocity?

16. What is the Definition of Done?

17. What is a Sprint Review meeting and who participates in it?

18. How do you do the Sprint Retrospective Meeting? Do you use any tools to capture Retrospective meeting output?

19. What do you do with the Retrospective meeting output? Explain with an example.

20. How do you plan your Sprint?

21. How do you manage risk in Scrum?

22. How do you consider that your deliverables are complete?

23. What is a Burndown chart?

24. What is a Burnup chart?

25. What is the difference between burn-up and burn-down charts? How do we use them independently?

26. What is user Story and what are characteristics of a user story?

27. What is Epic? Who is Epic owner?

28. How do you split epic into a story, what are the criteria?

29. What is a query in Jira?

30. Can you show a role-specific dashboard to users in Jira?

31. What are the four Values of The Agile Manifesto?

32. What are the twelve Agile Principles?

33. How do you run a Daily Scrum Meeting?

34. What is the difficulty you faced in agile implementation?

35. What are the different ceremonies in Scrum?

36. What is the Scrum of Scrums?

37. What is Feature Driven Development?

38. What is CI/CD? What are the tools you use for it?

39. What is Planning Poker? What is the use of the Fibonacci sequence in Story point calculations?

40. What is a Cross-Functional Team?

41. Explain some common metrics for Agile

42. What is the biggest challenge you faced in Project management?

43. Do you perform automated testing? What are the tools you use for it?

44. What is Test-Driven Development?

45. What is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?

46. Share the current scenario of SAFe implementation in your project.

47. What is the role of the Release Train Engineer?

48. What is the difference between Epic, User Stories and Tasks?

49. What is product backlog and who maintains it?

50. What is the role of a Product Owner?

51. What is time-boxing in Scrum?

52. What do you understand by Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in Scrum?

53. Who shall be writing user stories?

54. What are the challenges you faced as a Scrum Master?

55. What is the release Burndown chart?

56. What is the value stream?

57. How do you foster a self-organizing team?

58. What is a definition of done, why the written definition of done is important?

59. Why you should minimize work in progress (WIP)?

60. How you will run multi-location and multi-vendor Scrum teams?

61. What is a product backlog refinement/grooming?

62. What is the Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Marketable Features?

63. Have you ever tried Pair Programming? Do you think it is useful?

64. What is Increment?

65. What is Technical Debt?

66. What is time boxing?

67. What is Moscow?

68. Can we change sprint lengths in between?

69. How do we develop a framework code and architecture in Scrum?

70. Can Scrum Master and Product Owner be the same person?

71. What is Emergent Architecture?

72. What is Scrum of Scrum?

73. What is sprint zero?

74. What is the Build Breaker?

75. What is Spike?

76. What is Kanban?

77. What is design thinking?

78. What is XP?

79. What is BDD? What tools do you use for BDD?

80. Limitations / Drawback of Agile / for what types of projects Agile is not suitable.

 

 

Always be prepared with 5-10 questions that you want to ask/learn about from the company or position for you to have applied.    

 

Please suggest questions in the comment section if I missed any.