"Will This Be on the Test?

Someone raises their hand: "Will this be on the test?"

Oh no, not that infuriating question again 👿.

That question always bugged me throughout high school and university. Who cares?

Yet I cannot even count how often I heard this question during lectures. Over and over again.

Likely these are the same people who continuously ask: what does the Scrum Guide say about this?

I always found that learning to pass the test is boring. It can help with a higher grade, but the point of the test is never the grade.

Regurgitating the Scrum Guide is not the point, it's to understand the ideas behind it. Why it is written the way it is written.

And the Scrum Guide does a pretty poor job at that, if you consider all the people who simply quote the Scrum Guide as absolute truth.

And when you understand why it is the way it is, you don't need to worry about the specifics of the Scrum Guide. As they are a means to an end, and you understand the most important thing: the end.

The specifics don't really matter, even when the tests are designed to make you care about the specifics.

"The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team."

Is a Daily Scrum of 16 minutes allowed?

Easy to ask on a test and it's easy to give the right answer, but always remember one thing the Scrum Guide does not determine what is right or not.

What works for your situation is what matters the most, not whether we've broken a rule (or not).

Instead of asking: will this be on the test, be curious and try to understand why.