
Scrum Project Roles – Part 12
Roles
The Product Owner is the representative of the business to the team. He maintains the product backlog, the repository of the work needed to be done. He priorities this list according to business value and ranks the items in order of priority. The product owner makes the decisions about the product and ensures that it meets the business needs.
The development team is individuals that ensure that the vision presented by the product owner is made into a tangible product. These are the software developers, testers, and business analysts.
Unlike in waterfall where each role does not interact as often as possible in each software development phase, in Agile, it is critical that each of these roles coordinate often. These roles are now functioning as one team with the goal to deliver a potentially shippable product increment each sprint with high quality. It is the responsibility of the Scrum Master to ensure that this team will be able to self-organize – to deliver under minimum supervision – and be cross-functional – for each team member to grow, acquire and use skills as the team needs it to deliver their sprint goal.
The Scrum Master is considered as the guardian of Agile and Scrum values, principles and practices. He acts as a teacher, coach and servant leader of the team. He ensures that the committed work is delivered within the sprint. He facilitates the scrum meetings and builds the culture of transparency and collaboration in the scrum team. The Scrum Master guides the team as they undergo Bruce Tuckman’s “forming, storming, norming, performing, norming and adjourning” stages.
Forming Scrum Teams using Tuckman’s Theory
Forming
This is where the team members are brought together and informed that they will be working as a team. During this stage, everyone is still in the “getting to know each other” phase. This is where they try to understand their objectives, roles, and responsibilities both as individuals and as a team.
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Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)
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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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