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Tag: Agile roles and responsibilities

Mar 5 2017
What are Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
 

The Scrum roles and responsibilities are

Product Owner (PO) – PO is a key stakeholder in an Agile project. He/she is responsible for defining or detailing the vision, understanding organization goals and ensure to align project goals with it. PO has the content authority at a team level.

  • Defines the features and stories of the product.  Responsible for elaborating requirements, clarify doubts, and clearly stating acceptance criteria.
  • Review and accept/reject the work accomplished by the team.
  • Responsible for prioritization of the work.
  • Responsible for release planning.
  • Owns product backlog and release backlog.
  • Remove functional impediments and constantly answer product related questions to the team.
  • Constantly talking to other POs to align product/project changes with business unit/organization goals.
  • Responsible for the return of investments.
  • Constantly working with the customer to fulfill their needs and better understand their requirements.

Scrum Master

  • The Scrum master plays a servant leader to the Scrum team.
  • Facilitate daily standups.
  • Setting up retrospectives, pre-grooming, showcase, Scrum of the scrum and other meetings.
  • Remove impediments or obstacles for all kinds (technical, functional, resource, etc.)
  • Co-ordinate with POs, teams, Manager, and all the project holders.
  • Ensure team productivity and closely working with them to ensure quality requirements are enforced.
  • Ensure the team understands the processes and adhere to them.
  • Protect the team from external interferences and interruptions.

Team Member

  • Responsible for actual implementation.
  • Owns Sprint Backlog while the priority of Sprint backlog should be derived from the product backlog.
  • The recommended size is between 6 to 10 people. The best practice is to have 7-8 members team.
  • All the members are expected to be full-time.  The exceptions could be DBA or some specialized skill needed on a temporary basis.
  • Proactively identify ways and opportunities to improve the performance of the team and constantly get better.
  • Are set of programmers, DBAs, tech writers, technical experts, domain experts, independent testers etc.
  • Must be self-organizing.
  • Constantly communicate with the team and ensure to meet sprint goals.
  • To share all information in daily standups including “work in progress”
  • To support each other. Most importantly consider sprint goal a priority over individual goals.
  • Avoid accepting outside or extra work without consent from team.in
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