Scrum Roles

Scrum defines three essential roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers. The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing product value. They maintain the Product Backlog, clearly expressing backlog items, ordering them for optimal value delivery, ensuring transparency, and making sure the Development Team understands items. The Product Owner is one person, not a committee, though they may represent stakeholders' desires. Their decisions are respected and visible in backlog content and ordering. The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team and organization as a servant-leader. They help everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values. The Scrum Master coaches the team in self-organization and cross-functionality, helps remove impediments to progress, facilitates events, and assists the Product Owner with backlog management techniques. For the organization, they lead Scrum adoption, plan implementations, help employees understand Scrum, and collaborate with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness. Developers are the professionals who deliver a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint. They are self-organizing, deciding how to turn Product Backlog into working product Increments. Developers possess all skills needed to create the product Increment and have no sub-teams or specialized titles - everyone is simply a Developer regardless of their expertise areas. The Scrum Team is small enough to remain nimble (typically 3-9 Developers) yet large enough to complete meaningful work within a Sprint. Together, these three roles form the complete Scrum Team, collaborating daily to deliver value through empiricism and continuous improvement.

Scrum defines three essential roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers. The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing product value. They maintain the Product Backlog, clearly expressing…

Concepts covered: Stakeholders, The Product Owner, The Scrum Events, The Scrum Team, Scrum Artefacts, Development Team, Artifact Transparency, Sprint Planning, Scrum Master