There are only three roles in SCRUM, the product owner, the team and the scrum master
Product owner roles
- Representing the interest of all stakeholders of the project and it’s resulting system
- Achieves initial and ongoing funding for the project
- Creating the project’s initial overall requirements (product backlog)
- Prioritizing the product backlog to que up the most valuable requirements for the next iteration
- Working out the ROI and release plans
The team
- Developing the fuctionality
- Are self managing, self organizing and cross functional
- Responsible for figuring out how to turn product backlog into an increment of functionality within an iteration and managing their own work to do so
- Team members are collectively responsible for the success of each iteration and of the project as a whole
Scrum Master
- Is responsible for the scrum process
- For teaching scrum to everyone involved in the project
- For implementing scrum so that it fits within an organization’s culture and still delivers the expected benefits
- For ensuring that every one follows scrum rules and practices
