There are Three Main “Roles” in a Scrum Team
Scrum is one of the main frameworks that make up Agile as we know it today – but it is not the only framework.
Agile has also expanded in use outside of development teams, and into general knowledge work, design, research, or anywhere else an iterative and incremental approach to delivering value is needed.
The heart of a Scrum Team is the Team.
The Team
The team are traditionally Developers, but today they can be anyone involved in creating the increment of value that the team are delivering. Team members are often “T-shaped”, where they have a broad range of skills and one deep specialty, like a capital letter “T”.
The Product Owner
The Product Owner is responsible for the value the team delivers. This is called the Product Goal. They do this by creating a backlog of usable, customer-valued features or “increments” that the team can deliver, and prioritizing this from highest value to lowest value (sometimes adjusting for effort also). This is called the Product Backlog.
They ensure the Product Backlog is transparent to all and well understood by anyone who needs it.
The Scrum Master
Is the “Servant Leader” – they serve the team by removing blockers (escalating to their network or helping the team problem solve as a neutral third-party facilitator). They also facilitate many of the team ceremonies such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives – but they don’t have to if the team is mature enough to do this on their own. They focus on the team’s growth, looking for ways to help them improve in their chosen field (e.g. development, analysis, business value etc.) and in their Agile way of work.
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