Roles in Scrum - Answers Product Owner
Scrum Master
The Team
Product Owner Role - Answers -Delivers value for the product
-Creates the product backlog of "user stories"
-Grooms and prioritizes the backlog so that it's ready for the team to pull work into the sprints
Scrum Master Role - Answers -Provides Scrum process leadership
-Combines with the Product Owner & Dev. Team to form a Scrum team
-Focus of the ScrumMaster is helping everyone understand and embrace Scrum values,
principles, and practices
-Helps the organization develop its own high-performance, organization-specific Scrum
approach
The Development Team - Answers -Responsible for implementing user stories created by the
product owner into deliverable functionality
-Self-organized and product-focused
-Gives Product Owner grooming input
How do you manage work in Scrum? - Answers With the Product backlog and Sprint backlog
Product Backlog - Answers Prioritized list of user stories or features that have business value for
the product.
Sprint Backlog - Answers Estimated list of user stories that has been pulled in to the sprint and
the team has agreed to complete in the sprint. Usually lined up with the sprint goal.
Grooming - Answers -Proactively manage, organize, and administer the Product Backlog to
acomplish DEEP characteristics.
-Occurs once per sprint, every week, or even daily
Grooming Activities - Answers Creating, estimating, and refining PBIs
, How do we capture requirements in Scrum? - Answers -Scrum utilizes progressive refinement
and bidirectional conversations to ensure that requirements are discussed and communicated
-Scrum framework does not dictate a specific artifact to use for documenting
requirements/features/etc.
-User Stories are widely used to document many types of requirements capturing business
value in the process
Product Owner Responsibilities - Answers -Mange economics
-Participate in planning
-Groom the product backlog
-Define acceptance criteria and verify that they are met
-Collaborate with the development team
-Collaborate with the stakeholders
Scrum Master Responsibilities - Answers -Coaching
-Serving (serving leader)
-Process authority
-Interference shield
-Impediment remover
-Change agent
Development Team Responsibilities - Answers -Planning the sprint
-Performing sprint execution
-Inspecting and adapting each day
-Grooming the product backlog
-Inspecting and adapting the product and process
Development Team Characteristics - Answers -Self-organizing
-Cross-functionally diverse and sufficient
-T-shaped skills
-Musketeer attitude