Scrum Roles & Responsibilities

Module 3 Scrum Roles & Responsibilities

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Project People Project People

Committed Pigs

Involved Chickens

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Pig Roles •

Pigs are people who are committed to the project

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Pigs handle creating, testing and deploying of the project

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Typical scrum team size is 5 – 9 people

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3 pig roles to make a scrum team i.

Scrum Master

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Product Owner

iii. Delivery Team.

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Chicken Roles •

Are less committed

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They are the stakeholders and/or interested parties who benefit from the project, but are not responsible for delivering it

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Chicken roles are, i.

Business Managers

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Customers / Vendors / Sponsors.

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Scrum Master - Responsibilities •

Scrum master’s role is much more than a traditional project manager

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Scrum master liaises with different part of the team from stakeholders to testers

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Ensures the scrum process is understood and followed by the team

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Facilitates team meetings & remove any blockages

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Scrum Master - Responsibilities •

Ensures no obstacles keeping the team from achieving the goals

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Isolates the teamfrom outside distractions

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Working with the product owner to keep product backlog ready for the next sprint.

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Scrum Master - Characteristics •

“Servant Leader” – Not the boss of the team but to help the team

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Helps to align the work in order to deliver value to the customer

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Point of contact for outside the group

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Needs to be a top-notch communicator

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Conflict resolving ability to bring the team back on track

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Scrum master should be influential

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Product Owner •

Customer’s representative to the team

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Determines customer’s needs

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Prepares Product Road map

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Prioritize items so that team always works on items of highest customer value

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Manages product backlog

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Responsible for the sign-off of sprint deliverable–Sprint demo

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Should be motivating the team with clear, elevating goals.

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Product Owner

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Product Owner - Characteristics •

Visionary

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Decision Maker

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Collaborator

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Communicator

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Analytical – Tracks progress

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Product Owner Vs. Scrum Master

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Delivery Team •

Group of self-organized people responsible for delivery

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Team size – 2 to 10

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Team members – Programmers, testers, front-end designers and other disciplines

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Team works on each user story to move tasks on next stage in Kanban board

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No one is a leader, everyone decide as a group what they are going to deliver.

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Chicken Roles •

The project is developed for these people

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Their views are important and must be taken in account

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Should provide the resources that helps the team to get job done

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Actively involved during sprint review only

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Do attend scrum meetings time to time.

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