Which two things should the Scrum Team do during the first Sprint? (choose the best two answers)

The fundamental purpose of every Sprint, including the first, is to deliver a tangible outcome. The Scrum Guide mandates that "the entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint." This means the team must produce a "Done," usable version of the product, even if it's a very small slice. To create this Increment (E), the team must build some form of valuable functionality (D). This approach allows the team to test its processes, validate assumptions, and provide stakeholders with a concrete product to inspect and adapt from the very beginning, embodying the empirical nature of Scrum.

A. Scrum is an empirical framework that avoids detailed, long-term upfront planning. The plan evolves as more is learned.

B. Defining all major features and architecture upfront is a "Big Design Up Front" (BDUF) anti-pattern, contrary to Scrum's emergent approach.

C. This describes a "Sprint 0" anti-pattern. Requirements for future Sprints are refined on a just-in-time basis, not all at once in the first Sprint.

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1. Schwaber

K.

& Sutherland

J. (2020). The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org.

Page 8

"The Sprint" section: "Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum

where ideas are turned into value... The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable

useful Increment every Sprint." This directly supports options D and E as the core purpose of any Sprint.

Page 11

"Increment" section: "An Increment is a concrete stepping stone toward the Product Goal... In order to provide value

the Increment must be usable." This reinforces that the outcome of the Sprint's work must be a valuable and useful product.

2. Stray

V.

& Moe

N. B. (2020). Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of sprints and releases. IET Software

14(2)

133-142. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen.2019.0079

Section 2.1

"Scrum": The paper reiterates the Scrum Guide's principle

stating

"The main goal of a sprint is to produce a ‘done’

usable

and potentially releasable product increment." This supports the creation of a valuable Increment from the first Sprint onward.