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2. BEGINNER LEVEL CSPO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
SCENARIO BASED CSPO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
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ADVANCED LEVEL CSPO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

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01 What is the difference between Agile and Scrum Framework?
Agile refers to a set of “methods and practices based
on the values and principles expressed in the Agile
Manifesto,” which includes things like collaboration,
self-organization, and cross functionality of teams.
Scrum is a framework that is used to implement
Agile development. While a team can be
Agile without practicing Scrum, it cannot
practice Scrum and not be Agile.
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5. 02 When to use Agile Model? Is it suitable in all the circumstances?
Complex & bigger projects
New changes to be implemented
You can use Agile in scenarios when,
Long term goals & no bound on requirements
Quickly launch the product to market
Frequent changes throughout development cycle
No limit on time and budget
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6. 03 What is the Scrum Framework? How is it different from other frameworks?
Scrum is a framework that implements agile mindset, values and principles.
Its different from waterfall model in following ways:
Early Feedback Minimal Risk Collaborative
Development
Increased ROI Rollback
Changes
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7. 04 What is sprint in scrum? Is it different from iteration? Explain in simple terms?
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Scrum Sprint is a repeatable and regular work
cycle in scrum methodology during which work
is accomplished and kept ready for review.

8. 05 Is product owner a member of scrum team?
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ProductOwner
Yes, Product Owners are considered to
be a member of the Scrum Team.

9. 06 What are the different roles in the Scrum Team apart from Product Owner?
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The Product Owner is key stakeholder who represents the client side and is
responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Team
The Scrum
Master is the
team’s resident
facilitator,
responsible for
helping all team
members
follow Scrum’s
theories, rules,
and practices
The Development Team consists
of professionals who do the work
of delivering a potentially
releasable Product Increment at
the end of each Sprint

10. 07 Who is a product owner? Define the product owner role in simple terms.
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The product owner is key stakeholder who
represents the client side and is responsible
for maximizing the value of the product and
the work of the Team
Role of product owner
•Managing product backlog
•Progressing the value of the work done
•Guiding team to achieve the best goals and
missions
•Making sure that product backlog is visible,
transparent, and clear

11. 08 What exactly does the term “product” means?
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A product is something (tangible/non-tangible)
created through a process to benefit a group of
customers and to the organization that provides it. It
can be anything from a chair, a painting, or it can
even be just an idea.

12. 09 Can the Product Owner and Scrum Master be the same person?
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No. Product Owner should never act in the Scrum
Master role. These two roles have conflicting goals and
should never be merged. Mixing them can have a very
negative effect on the development process.
Product Owner
Scrum Master

13. 10 What is a Product Roadmap? What is its role in agile projects?
A product roadmap is a high-level visual
summary that maps out the vision and provides
strategy and plan for product development
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14. 11 Describe what happens in the sprint planning meeting?
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Sprint Planning is a meeting where the work to be done during a Sprint is mapped out. During this
meeting, the entire team clearly defines deliverables for the Sprint and assigns the work necessary
to achieve that goal.
How will the work needed to
deliver be achieved?
What can be delivered in this
Sprint iteration?

15. 12 What is term velocity in agile? How is it measured?
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Velocitypredictshow muchworkAgilecancompleteinasprintandhowmuchtimewillitrequireto
completeaproject.Thenumberisobtainedbyaddingallthestorypointsfromthelastsprint’sstories.
Velocity=Numberoftotalstorypoints
/Oneiteration

16. 13 What are the desirable qualities of a vision in agile projects?
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Vision basically is a goal you set for your organization, the
product or even for yourself. Some desired qualities of the
vision are:
It should be clear & firm
Extensive and appealing
A vision board is a simple yet effective tool that
helps agile teams capture, clarify and validate
their ideas.
Brief and concise

17. 14 What are the characteristics of a good Product Backlog Item?
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Product Backlog is an ordered list of tasks and requirements the final product needs. It
is constantly evolving and is never complete.
A good backlog should be DEEP:
D: Detailed Appropriately
E: Emergent
E: Estimated
P: Prioritized

18. 15 Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap. We keep using these words, but what do they mean?
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Vision basically is a goal you set for
your organization, the product or even
for yourself.
A product roadmap is a high-level
visual summary that maps out the
vision and provides strategy and plan
for product development
The strategy is a system of achievable
goals and visions which describes
who the customers are, how the
product fits into the current market,
and how it will achieve business goals

19. 16 What are the qualities or characteristics of a good product owner?
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Superb Leader Knowledgeable
Excellent Researcher Conflict Resolver
Quick Decision Maker Efficient Communicator
Qualities of
Product Owner

20. 17 What is Product Increment?
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Product Backlog
Scrum Sprint
Product Increment
The product improvement is the sum of product work completed during a
Sprint combined with all work completed during previous sprints.

21. 18 What is a user story in Scrum? How does a good user story look?
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A user story represents a small piece of business value that a team can deliver in a sprint.
Stories are the primary artifacts used to define system behaviour in Agile development.
The user stories are defined in
the format of
As a <User / type of user>
I want to <action / feature to
implement>
So that < objective>
User Story in user voice form

22. 19 What is the difference between the Product Manager (PM) and Product Owner (PO)?
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Product Managers focus on the
product’s vision, company objectives,
and the market. Mainly, they
are accountable for strategic
roadmaps and business outcomes
Product Owners translate the strategies
into actionable tasks and work with
cross-functional agile teams more
closely to make sure they are executing
on those requirements accordingly.

23. 20 Who sets the sprint goal?
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Product owner. Defining the sprint goal or
sprint objective is one of the most important
goal of the product owner.

24. 21 What are the techniques used for backlog prioritization?
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Product Backlog
Product Backlog Prioritization Techniques:
✓ MaSCoW Method
✓ Kano Model
✓ 100 Dollar Test
✓ Stack Ranking
✓ Cost of Delay

25. 22 What is the Release Burndown Chart?
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BurndownCharts
• X-axis that displays
working days
• Y-axis that displays
remaining effort
• Ideal effort as a guideline
• Real progress of effort.

26. 23 What are the most important components of Agile?
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Daily Stand-Up
Meetings
CRC Cards
(Class
Responsibilities &
Collaborators)
Timeboxed Task
Boards
Iteration Planning
Meetings
TTD, code reviews,
continuous
integration etc…

27. 24
List some popular agile frameworks. Do you know any other agile methodology apart
from scrum?
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ExtremeProgramming(XP)
Kanban
TestDrivenDevelopment
FeatureDriven
Development
Crystal

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30. 25 As a product owner what will be your responsibilities?
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Creating and managing the product
backlog
Processing the value of the work done
Collaborating with the development team
Communicating the status to stakeholders
Guiding the team to achieve the best goals
Represents customer and stakeholder
interests and needs
Ensure transparency into the upcoming work of
the product development team
Managing team economics and actively
participate in different meetings

31. 26
What is the difference between Product Manager, Product Owner and Business
Analyst?
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A business analyst, compared to
product owner is limited by the scope
of the work. Usually, a business
analyst would be responsible for a
particular section of the
Product Owners translate the
strategies into actionable tasks and
work with cross-functional agile
teams more closely to make sure
they are executing on those
requirements accordingly.
Product Managers focus on the
product’s vision, company objectives,
and the market. Mainly, they
are accountable for strategic
roadmaps and business outcomes

32. 27 Do you think you are talented enough to be a product owner? What are the skills that
you have to be a good product owner?
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Knowledgeable
Excellent Communication skills
Commitment towards team and work
Quick decision making
Always reliable and available

33. 28
How does the PO filter the user stories before putting an idea in a backlog as a
Product Backlog item?
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Every idea that comes to the product owner needs to be analyzed. The
analysis can be done in several ways like analyzing through creating a
prototype, working on pilot customers, based on experience, etc. Based
on the result of analysis, the PO should decide if the idea should be added
to the product backlog or not.

34. 29 Mention some scenarios where using scrum is not suggested?
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Doesn’t go
well with
huge groups
When organization
is unwilling to adopt
scrum
When
requirements
do not evolve
much When frequently
needing to
respond, quicker
than a sprint
allows

35. 30 What are the properties of a sprint?
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Backlog
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SprintBacklog
ProductOwner
ScrumMaster
PotentiallyShippable
Product
UpdatingChecklist
Protected from changes
Timeboxed
Scrum Sprint is a repeatable and regular work
cycle in scrum methodology during which work
is accomplished and kept ready for review.

36. 31 Explain the MoSCow technique used for backlog prioritization?
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MoSCoW prioritization, also known as the MoSCoW method or MoSCoW analysis, is a
popular prioritization technique for managing requirements. It is commonly used to help
key stakeholders understand the significance of initiatives in a specific release.
Must have requirementsMo
Should have requirementsS
Could have requirementsCo
Won’t or would have requirementsW

37. 32 Is it ever suggested to use waterfall over Scrum? If yes, explain when.
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Ifyourrequirementsaresimple,well-defined,fullyunderstood,predictable,andarenotsubjected
tochangeuntilthecompletionoftheprojectyoucouldprobablygoforwaterfallmodel

38. 33 How non-functional requirements can be dealt with within the product-backlog?
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Non-Functional
Requirements
Non-functional requirements play an important role in the
overall product development and delivery. Different ways of
handling such requirements are:
❖Create user stories in the
backlog
❖Inclusion in DoD
❖Acceptance Criteria

39. 34 What services that product owner receives from scrum master?
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The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in multiple ways, like:
➢ Finds effective product backlog management
techniques
➢ Ensures that goals and scope of the project are
understood
➢ Facilitating scrum events as requested
➢ Help product manager arrange product backlog
➢ Helps understand and implement agile
principles and practices.

40. 35 What are a few challenges of with the product owner role?
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It is often difficult to
transforming customer’s ideas
into tangible product
deliverables
Prioritizing features is not
always easy
Aligning the entire scrum team
with customer’s requirements
is difficult task
POs often fail to understand
the fundamental of the role.
PO might find it challenging to
plan releases and sprints
Dealing with difficult customers
Providing timely and
constructive feedback to the
team

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Is it a product owner’s
responsibility to track or measure
the performance of the project?
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Yes, it is. Generally, while the development
team is one who measures sprint
performance, it’s the product owner, who
measures project performance.

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How does Product Owner maximize
the value of the Development
Team’s work?
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The Product owner can increase the value the
team delivers through different strategies,
which are:
➢ Continuous interaction
➢ Domain Training
➢ Vision
➢ Value Delivery

45. 38
Have you heard of Product Backlog
Refinement meeting? In that
meeting do we focus on items of
upcoming sprints or the current
sprints?
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During a Product backlog refinement meeting, the team and the product
owner discuss the questions that would normally arise during sprint
planning. Therefore, that meeting is for the upcoming sprint.

46. 39
If you were a product owner how
would you deal with uncooperative
stakeholders?
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Engaging them through regular meeting
and discussions
Seek help from a sponsor and facilitate
workshops, training events
Convince them that their presence and
contribution is really important.

47. 40
Are you a certified scrum product
owner (CSPO)?
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BE CONFIDENT & let them know if you are a
certified or not. If an interviewer asks this
question, it doesn’t mean that a certification
is must for the job position.

48. 41
As a product owner who should
you report to?
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Scrum does not provide any mandatory ground rule
on the reporting structure for the product owner.
In agile frameworks like SAFe, product owners
usually report to product managers

49. 42
As a Product Owner, how would
you communicate your
marketplace knowledge to the
Scrum Team?
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✓ The Product Owner does it
continuously as a part of his
informal interactions with the
development team and scrum
meetings.
✓ He also does that through
formal discussions and
meetings that are part of the
scrum framework.

50. 43
How do you align the product
roadmap with the product backlog
and user stories?
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You don’t align the product roadmap
with the product backlog and user
stories.
There should be a parent-child
relationship between the two.

51. 44
The development team is
repeatedly failing to fulfill the
sprint commitment. As a product
owner, what would you do?
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Product Owner ( PO ) should identify which of the
above reason is responsible for failure and discuss
the solution with his team.
Development team failing to fulfil the sprint
commitment could be due to:
▪ Incorrect estimation or over-commitment.
▪ Lack of trust and collaboration in the team.
▪ Team not understanding the user story

52. 45
Can a person be PO for multiple
teams?
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➢ The Product Owner is the owner of a single
product. He/she focuses on the given product by
constantly being in touch with the customers
and stakeholders.
➢ Aligning a PO for multiple projects will impact
the quality of deliverable and it will also affect
the duties of individual playing the role of a PO.

53. 46
How will you know if you are
successful as a product owner or
not?
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Certain parameters that would help you evaluate
yourself are:
❑ Strength of Product Backlog
❑ Constant delivery of Value
❑ Attaining of Release Goals
❑ Understanding of Product Vision by team members
❑ Defining a successful Product Roadmap
❑ When the customer is satisfied and pleased

54. 47
Do you hold any agile certification?
Why did you choose this
certification?
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Most popular certifications include:
➢ ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)
➢ ASM (Agile Scrum Master)
➢ CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
➢ PSM (Professional Scrum Master)
Talk about how much you scored if
you do have a certification & why
you choose that particular one

55. 48
Should the team accept changes in
the sprint as requested by the
Product Owner?
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✓ According to agile principles, if
the change is being requested by
the Product Owner, the team has
to decide if they should accept it
or not.
✓ There will be a negotiation
between the product owner and
the development, the team gets
to take the final call on the
acceptance of the change.

56. 49
Your team is constantly failing to
meet commitments, and its
performance velocity is volatile.
What might the possible reasons
be?
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Team members are leaving
Working in uncharted territory
Unexpected technical dept
Way to many holidays & sick leaves
Working with legacy code probably
undocumented
Various levels of seniority

57. 50
List some of the popular project
management tools that you have
heard of.
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Somepopulartoolsinclude:
✓ RallySoftware
✓ VersionOne
✓ XPlanner
✓ EasyBacklog
✓ iceScrum
✓ Agilefant
✓ Agilo

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