Roles and responsibilities

Scrum Team

The Scrum team consists of a self-steering development team, a Product Owner and a Scrum Master.

The development team is a multidisciplinary team. That means it consists of a combination of roles and areas of expertise:

The team is jointly responsible for the following:

Is member of the Scrum team.
Represents stakeholders and the business within the scrum team.
Determines and monitors the scope of the project.
Writes the user stories and is capable of explaining the content to the development team.
Is available to the development team for review and other questions.
Prioritises the backlog so the team can prepare the sprint.
Takes the lead in the demos.

Is member of the scrum team.
Guides and monitors the scrum process.
Initiates and facilitates the scrum meetings (Daily, Planning, Review and Retrospective).
Motivates the team towards self-management.
Removes impediments or escalates these to the Product Owner.
Supports the Product Owner.

Define your own and the other roles by answering the following questions:
- What are 2-3 important deliverables, tasks or other ways you help the team?
- What kind of support do you need and from which role?
Share and compare notes in order to come to an agreement.
Use dot votes in order to define the most important deliverables and tasks.
Draw different circles on the board each representing a role.
Use the dot voted sticky notes to annotate each role with their most important deliverables, tasks and responsibilities.
Draw interaction lines between the different roles; use thick lines to indicate most important interactions.
As a facilitator, make sure that you capture and summarise and ask questions when something is vague.
At the end of the session everybody should have come to an agreement.
Write all the conclusions in an email and send it around to make sure that everybody has the same information and that you have something you can fall back on