
Forming the Scrum Team – Part 5
FORMING THE SCRUM TEAM
Forming a scrum team with the right size and skills is important in the delivery of any product. This is a critical part of the initiation phase of an Agile project. There are multiple deliverables within each sprint, and team members will need to be self-organising with a breadth of skills.
Scrum team formation is primarily managed by the team’s product owner. The product owner carries the vision of the organisation and as the individual responsible for the product backlog, they should have the greatest insight into the skills required to deliver prioritised features. Since the scrum master is one of the first team members identified, most product owners will engage this individual in identifying skills and the people who can best deliver.
Within Scrum teams, teams members are cross-functional with the specific technical skills to complete the product. Scrum Team members also support the rest of the team. The best teams are goal oriented and have 6 team members, give or take three. Unlike traditional project teams, the testing resources are not within silos’ in a separate part of the organisation. As a cross-functional team, the development team consists of developers, testers, solution architects, and all of the other roles required to complete the product.
Testing is an important step in the delivery of shippable features and as such will need to be planned and executed to deliver the product. These shippable features will then need to be approved by the product owner during the sprint review ceremony.
Testers are involved throughout the project, and play crucial roles within the sprint and project ceremonies. These ceremonies include the:
– Backlog Development,
– Sprint Planning
– Sprint Review, and
– Sprint Retrospective.
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Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)
What is this course?
This ‘Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities
You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’
This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles
During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as an Agile Scrum Developer
What will you learn?
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to
- Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Developer
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team

What topics are covered within this course
You will cover the following topics during this course:
- An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Developer)
- The 12 Agile Principles (Developer)
- Introduction to Scrum (Developer)
- Scrum Project Roles (Developer)
- The Agile Project Life-cycle (Developer)
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Developer)
- Initiating an Agile Project (Developer)
- Forming the Scrum Team (Developer)
- Epics and Personas (Developer)
- User Stories and Tasks (Developer)
- Implementation of Scrum (Developer)
- The Daily Scrum (Developer)
- The Product Backlog (Developer)
- Scrum Charts (Developer)
- Review and Retrospective (Developer)
- Validating a Sprint (Developer)
- Retrospective Sprint (Developer)
- Releasing the Product (Developer)
- The Communication Plan (Developer)
- Formal Business Sign-off (Developer)
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