In the previous posts, we discussed the roles in Scrum, and their desired traits. Now let’s have a summary of the responsibilities of each role in a Scrum project. The table given below provides a crisp outline of responsibilities of the Scrum roles.
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Role
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Responsibilities
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Scrum Guidance Body
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- Establishes overall guidelines and metrics for developing role descriptions for Scrum Team members
- Acts as a consultant to projects across organization at different levels
- Understands and defines appropriate levels of grouping, roles, and meetings for Scrum projects
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Portfolio Product Owner
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- Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for portfolios
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Portfolio Scrum Master
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- Solves problems and coordinates meetings for portfolios
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Program Product Owner
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- Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for programs
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Program Scrum Master
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- Solves problems and coordinates meetings for programs
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Stakeholder(s)
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- Is a collective term that includes customers, users, and sponsors
- Frequently interfaces with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team to provide them inputs and facilitates creation of the Deliverables of the project.
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Product Owner
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- Creates the project’s initial overall requirements and gets the project rolling
- Appoints appropriate people to the Scrum Master and Scrum Team roles
- Provides the initial and ongoing financial resources for the project
- Determines Product Vision
- Assesses the viability and ensures delivery of the product or service
- Ensures transparency and clarity of Prioritized Product Backlog Items
- Decides minimum marketable release content
- Provides Acceptance Criteria for the User Stories to be developed in a Sprint
- Inspects deliverables
- Decides Sprint duration
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Scrum Master
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- Ensures that Scrum processes are correctly followed by all team members including the Product Owner
- Ensures that development of the product or service is progressing smoothly and the Scrum Team members have all the necessary tools to get the work done
- Oversees Release Planning Meeting and schedules other meetings
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Scrum Team
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- Takes collective responsibility and ensures that the project deliverables are created per requirements
- Assures Product Owner and Scrum Master that the allocated work is being performed according to plan
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