Building A Team: Confusing roles

Confusing Roles To further elaborate on roles in an agile team, designated roles can often be confusing to fulfill if they are not properly understood. Agile team roles are broken down into three formal roles which includes the ScrumMaster, the developers, and the product owner. Each role will have specific focuses that is crucial to the success of a project. A team that has never been dealt with the agile framework will find it hard to adjust because of legacy habits. To help clarify roles in an agile team, the following paragraphs will provide details.

Although it may seem like the project manager is in charge, it is the developers who are responsible for the delivery of a product. Simply put, the developers will work directly with the product owner to breakdown high value work and create estimates of work completion. Developers make a majority of the decisions for the project even though the product owner will have a final say. As the developer, it is important to maintain being self-organized for increasing productivity. Their primary focus is the delivery of a product to the customer.

As the ScrumMaster, this role states that designated person has master the agile framework. The ScrumMaster is to foster a great working environment and remove obstacles blocking a team from being self-organized by following the agile framework. It is not the ScrumMaster's duty to keep an agile team moving. If there are any problems with developers in making good estimates, the ScrumMaster will coach and train. The primary focus of a ScrumMaster is on the team and training them correctly in agile.

Lastly, the product owner role is very important because it connects the agile team with the customer. The product owner will communicate with the customer to gather requirements for the product. This information is given to the developers so that they can build the estimation for completing work and delivering the final product. The direct communication ensure that developers are working towards the desires of what the customer wants in a reasonable time frame. The focus of the product owner is to bridge requirements to a final product.

Work Cited

"Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team." Lynda.com - from LinkedIn, www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-tutorials/Welcome/175073/379413-4.html. Accessed 1 Nov. 2017.

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