Team Roles and Responsibilities

In Disciplined Agile Scrum Master context, team roles and responsibilities are adaptable based on the team's unique context while maintaining agile principles. Unlike rigid frameworks, DA recognizes various team roles beyond the traditional Scrum roles. The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) team typically includes: 1. Team Lead (similar to Scrum Master): Facilitates team operations, removes obstacles, coaches on agile practices, and ensures process adherence. They focus on team effectiveness and continuous improvement. 2. Product Owner: Represents stakeholders, prioritizes backlog, clarifies requirements, and makes business decisions. They balance business value against technical constraints. 3. Team Members: Cross-functional professionals with varied skills (developers, testers, UX specialists, etc.) who collaborate to deliver value. They self-organize and maintain collective ownership of outcomes. 4. Architecture Owner: Guides technical decisions, ensures solution integrity, and addresses architectural concerns while working closely with developers. 5. Stakeholders: Anyone impacted by the solution including end-users, sponsors, and management. They provide feedback and validate value delivery. DA embraces these principles for team effectiveness: - Collective Ownership: Teams share responsibility for all aspects of delivery. - Cross-functionality: Members develop multiple skills to reduce dependencies. - Self-organization: Teams make decisions about how to accomplish work. - Servant Leadership: Leaders serve the team rather than command them. Responsibilities evolve throughout the delivery lifecycle: - Inception: Understanding vision, initial planning, and establishing team working agreements - Construction: Building solution increments through iterations - Transition: Preparing for deployment and release DA emphasizes that roles remain fluid, allowing teams to adapt structure based on context, project complexity, and organizational needs—avoiding prescriptive role definitions in favor of pragmatic adaptation.

In Disciplined Agile Scrum Master context, team roles and responsibilities are adaptable based on the team's unique context while maintaining agile principles. Unlike rigid frameworks, DA recognizes …

Concepts covered: Team Lead Role in Disciplined Agile Teams, Team Member Role in Disciplined Agile, Stakeholder Role in Disciplined Agile, Domain Expert Role in Disciplined Agile, Independent Tester Role in Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Coach Role and Responsibilities, Product Owner Role in Disciplined Agile, Sponsor Role in Disciplined Agile, Architecture Owner Role in Disciplined Agile