Responsibilities vs Accountabilities - A Better Understanding of Agile Roles

Responsibilities vs Accountabilities - A Better Understanding of Agile Roles Product Owner:  Accountabilities Product Vision: Craft a Product Vision that points the team in a meaningful direction. Product Strategy: Define a strategy enabling the team to decide what to do and what not to do. Goals: Set meaningful goals that enable teams to focus and intensively collaborate towards a unique direction. Value Maximization: Prioritize meaningful problems that maximize the outcomes for users and businesses. Communication: Ensure stakeholders are well-informed about results, decisions, progress, etc. In summary, they should never say, “I was unaware of that.” Responsibilities Stakeholder Management: Engage with stakeholders to partner up and create value for products. This includes organizing meetings, workshops, communication, etc. Backlog Management: Curate, sort, and clean up the Product Backlog to ensure it has the most relevant items to create value. Roadmap: Craft product roadmaps to provide perspective and set expectations on where the product is heading. Monitor results: Constantly evaluate KPIs to understand how the product creates value for end-users. Product Discovery: Ensure continuous learning to enable innovation and solve problems users care about. ScrumMaster: Accountabilities Scrum Understanding: Ensure business stakeholders understand how to play the Scrum game. Atmosphere: Develop a collaborative atmosphere with a balance between learning and delivering. Framework: Ensure that all Scrum events occur and that all artifacts are created as defined in the Scrum Guide. Teams’ Effectiveness: Enable the team to grow and become as effective as possible. Enable Self-management: Unleashes the team’s potential by helping them become self-managing teams. Responsibilities Ensure the Sprint Retrospective takes place: The Scrum Master may facilitate the Sprint Retrospective, but the responsibility is ensuring that it happens. Another team member can run the show. Ensure Retrospectives End Up with Actions: After each Sprint, Scrum teams discuss how to get better as a team. Scrum Masters ensure the result of the session has clear agreed actions. Coach stakeholders: Invest whatever is necessary to coach key business people to enable teams to thrive with Scrum. Scrum Events: Ensure the team respects the Scrum Events frequency and timeboxes them. Development Team:  Accountabilities Quality: Ensure the code meets the agreed quality standards. Scalability: Creates solutions that scale to the required business needs. Efficiency: Guarantee solutions are efficient from the users’ perspective. Maintainability: Develop an application that can be maintainable by other professionals. Responsibilities Solution: Implement solutions that solve the agreed problems. Test: Perform required tests to meet the quality expectations. Delivery: Define a delivery process and execute it accordingly. Estimate: Only those who work on the solution can estimate it.