
Scrum Project Roles – Part 5
Core Roles
Core roles can be understood as the project team, which typically includes roles that are directly involved in daily project tasks, goals, and visions. There are three core roles: the product owner, development team, and scrum master.
Firstly, the product owner is often the visionary of a product or project. They may present an idea and organize a group to work on this idea. They are responsible for maintaining the quality of the product and keeps an eye on the big picture. The Scrum Master should support the product owner’s vision, goals, and backlog management. This can be done through planning products in an empirical environment, translating visions to the scrum team, communicating daily progress to the product owner, and enabling project agility.
Secondly, the development team is self-motivated and focuses on the practical tasks necessary for the development and production of a concept. The Scrum master aids the team by coaching, promoting self-organization, removing barriers, facilitating communication, and communicating with external stakeholders when additional expertise is necessary.
The Scrum Master’s role rests heavily in facilitating these core relations. For example, if the development team and product owner develop misaligned visions as the project transforms, the Scrum Master should take the lead in facilitating cooperation and understanding on both sides. If the development team has computer malfunctions or a lack of equipment, the Scrum Master may take the appropriate measures to solve these issues so that processes can continue and deadlines can be met. Additionally, the Scrum Master is responsible for arranging scrum events (such as daily stand-ups, sprint plans/goals, retrospectives, etc) and should remain aware of the development team’s progress and needs surrounding these events.
The Scrum Master’s role does not end at facilitating relations among the core roles, they must also facilitate and manage relations among non-core roles.
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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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