{"id":69209,"date":"2022-06-15T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=69209"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:25:42","slug":"scrum-roles-and-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/scrum-roles-and-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"An Overview of Scrum Roles and Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are the Scrum roles and responsibilities? How do the three roles work together to make an efficient team?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his book <em>Scrum, <\/em>Jeff Sutherland details the three roles within a Scrum team. 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Here are the Scrum roles and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-product-manager\"><strong>Product Manager<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Product Manager (or what Sutherland calls the \u201cProduct Owner\u201d) creates the overall vision for the product and makes sure the product is both viable and valuable. The Product Manager\u2019s responsibilities include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Determining the goal of the project and what it should look like when it&#8217;s finished<\/li><li>Creating the task list of everything that needs to be done to complete the project<\/li><li>Ordering the task list by the value it brings to the project<\/li><li>Relaying feedback from the customers or stakeholders to the rest of the Scrum team<\/li><li>Making changes to the project objective and the task list based on the feedback<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Product Manager is responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/important-decisions-in-life\/\">important decisions<\/a> that will determine the success of the project. Her job is to convince the team of her decisions and make sure the work being done is bringing value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/inspired\"><em>Inspired<\/em><\/a>, Marty Cagan agrees with Sutherland\u2019s basic framework of having a product manager direct the vision of the project, oversee its task list, coordinate messaging to customers and stakeholders, and adjust the project as needed. Cagan differs in that he calls this person a <em>project<\/em> manager rather than a <em>product<\/em> manager, and he draws attention to the difference\u2014this person oversees the <em>work<\/em> and the <em>process<\/em>, not the technical details of the product itself. 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She just ensures that communication is open and the team is making consistent progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-4-disciplines-of-execution\"><em>The 4 Disciplines of Execution<\/em><\/a> discusses the way organizational coaches can help implement a company\u2019s vision. <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-4-disciplines-of-execution\/implementing-4dx-across-an-entire-organization#4dx-coaches\">An internal coach benefits an organization in three ways<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They can quickly provide the team with the information or support they need.<\/li><li>They can help the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-be-more-self-sufficient\/\">learn to be self-sufficient<\/a>.<\/li><li>They can quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-train-new-employees\/\">train new employees<\/a> or leaders in the ways of the organization.)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-developers\"><strong>Developers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Developers are responsible for completing the items from the task list. They\u2019re the ones building the product with guidance from the Product Manager and Scrum Coach. The Developers duties include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Estimating the relative size of each task<\/li><li>Deciding how to complete the tasks within each Sprint<\/li><li>Finishing each task completely before moving on to the next<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Scrum Coach makes sure everyone is working within the Scrum framework, the Developers must still hold each other accountable. Because the Scrum framework gives the Developers the freedom to work as they see fit, it&#8217;s their responsibility to create consistent value within each Sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Inspired <\/em>Versus<em> Scrum<\/em><\/strong><br><br>In <em>Inspired<\/em>, Cagan discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/inspired\/part-2#the-importance-of-engineers-to-the-product-manager\">importance of engineers to the Product Manager<\/a>. The engineers, like Sutherland\u2019s developers, are responsible for building the product. The engineers and the Product Manager should have a close, collaborative relationship in which they share ideas. The engineers will understand the product in more detail than the Product Manager, so they will be able to provide creative, realistic solutions to problems. This is similar to Sutherland\u2019s ideas, in which the developers create the product while the Product Manager focuses on the big picture.\u00a0<br><br>On top of the key positions, <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/inspired\/part-2#other-roles\">Cagan provides other roles that may be needed for product development<\/a>, including marketing experts, researchers, analysts, and test engineers. Sutherland would probably be against these extra roles for two reasons: 1) All these duties should be performed by people on the original team and 2) the specialized roles would get in the way of collaboration. Instead, these people would just be part of the Developer team.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the Scrum roles and responsibilities? How do the three roles work together to make an efficient team? In his book Scrum, Jeff Sutherland details the three roles within a Scrum team. 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