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Q1. If a developer who was working on a critical user story suddenly goes on emergency medical leave. how will you deal with the situation?
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Q2. How do you plan the capacity for a particular sprint?
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Q3. how will you design the Jira board from scratch
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Q4. difference between burndown and burn up charts
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Q5. daily activities of scrum master
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Q6. Why are these three called as pillars of scrum ? How are they related to each other
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Q7. Scrum ceremonies describe which is favourite
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Q8. Sprint planning duration
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Q9. What is the difference between velocity and capacity?
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Q10. what is poker ? and why do you use fibonacci series to give story points ?
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Q1. How to organise retrospective and how to come up with the solution
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Q2. How to plan the capacity of particular sprint
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Q3. Recruiter will get back to you with related expertise for next level interview
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Q4. Various activities performed as SM explain
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Q5. 1) User Stories 2) Sprint zero 3) Stories and Requirement gathering 4) DoR and DoD
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Q6. Estimation of user story and defect management
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Q7. Tell us what is Sprint Zero
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Q8. All generic terms of scrum and safe and then followed by Scenario based questions . Interview went for 1 hour
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Q9. What is product backlog?
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Q10. What is sprint review?
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Q1. In deployment stage, stakeholder adds new requirement. How would you handle that situation considering the time and budget constraints?
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Q2. What happens if your team members argue for a technical specification
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Q3. Why is scrum master position has master word in it?
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Q4. Finally the best part, package negitiation and it went really well
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Q5. What is the definition of DOD/DOR
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Q6. What happens in sprint planning meet
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Q7. Tools to handle the project management? Describe?
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Q8. What is the location currenly staying
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Q9. Best prctices done during retrospective
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Q10. Tasks handled other than Scrum master responsibilities.
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Q1. Basics of the work that is been done
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Q2. introduction around scrum and working
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Q3. 2 on 1 interview. Question revolving around experience, scenario based questional, checking interpersonal skills, people management, project/program management, drive element for team/organisation.
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Q4. With PO & TL to check if fits in the team. Approach to handle team, agile transformation, scrum/SAFe implementation
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Q5. Panel of 2 agile coach checking knowledge on area, discussion, scenario based interview
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Q6. General question revolving around experience Scenario based question
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Q7. Genearl org specific beenfits and expected CTC check
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Q8. Question on scrum, experience
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Q1. What is Task and Its Type and How to you explain it to Non Agile Professional
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Q2. How do we calculate the Velocity and Capacity of the team
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Q3. What is the recommended Team Size in Scrum
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Q4. What are the Types of Estimation in Agile
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Q5. Who all can pracitipant in Sprint Review
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Q6. Excel Formula more related to VLOOKUP (Data Comparison), finding the Duplicate and Charts
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Q7. Methods to prioritize the Product Backlog
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Q8. Explain the 4 Agile Values & 12 Principles
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Q9. What are the Scrum Ceremony are there
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Q10. What is Scrumban
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Q1. Screening will be via telephonic for 5 to 10 mins if shortlisted full interview will be scheduled either virtual or in person (with a panel of 2 members )
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Q2. nothing got asked no-one tuned up
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Q3. Agile /scrum basic questions
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Q4. Some management questions
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Q5. Mostly pay discussion and verification to your previous experience
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Q6. no questions as nobody joined.
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Q7. Agile way of working
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Q8. Scrum ceremonies
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Q9. Behaviour question
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Q10. different tools used in Agile
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Q1. do you know oss and bss?
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Q2. 3 rounds, 1 - scenario based ques, 2 - basic scrum ques and third round depends on the client, whether or not you are willing to also perform some other roles like testing. You should have a scrum SDLC knowledge. Any projects you worked in and domain knowledge is optional. I was asked to solve a basic SQL or python ques.
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Q3. Prioritization of tasks
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Q4. Conflict management
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Q1. What is safe agile, when do you use safe and when you use scrum, details about old experience
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Q2. metrics to track progress
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Q3. Basic question related to scrum guide
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Q4. Again scrum master related questions and situations based questions.
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Q5. And other generic question
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Q6. Scrum methods
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Q7. Scrum master relevant questions
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Q8. Normal HR related questions.
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Q1. Which part of Agile Manifesto or Principles talk about a certain Anti Pattern
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Q2. Workflow creation in jira
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Q3. All questions that were asked were related to case study general scrum question and question on assumption why i made it
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Q4. I was provided a case study and was asked to prepare a project plan for a software development project
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