Scrum Guide: The Scrum Team

What are the benefits of smaller teams?

- Better communication - Increased productivity

How are the Product Owner's decisions visible?

- through the content and ordering of the Product Backlog - through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review

The Scrum Team consists of:

1 Scrum Master 1 Product Owner Developers

The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including:

- Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality. - Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done. - Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress. - Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.

Developers are always accountable for:

- Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog. - Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done. - Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal. - Holding each other accountable as professionals.

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:

- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal. - Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items. - Ordering Product Backlog items. - Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible, and understood.

The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:

- Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management. - Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items. - Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment. - Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:

- Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption. - Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization. - Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work. - Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.

Multiple cohesive Scrum Teams focused on the same product should share:

- Product Goal - Product Backlog - Product Owner

Scrum Team Size:

- Small enough to remain nimble - Large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint - Typically 10 or fewer people.

The Scrum Team is responsible for all product-related activities such as:

- stakeholder collaboration - verification - maintenance - operation - experimentation - research and development - anything else that might be required.

Scrum Masters are ____________ who serve ___________.

1. true leaders 2. the Scrum Team and the larger organization

What is the fundamental unit of Scrum?

Scrum Team - a small team of people

Who is accountable for creating a valuable product in Scrum?

The Scrum Team as a whole is accountable for creating a valuable product, specifically by creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.

How does the Scrum Master improve the Scrum teams effectiveness?

by enabling the Scrum Team to improve its practices, within the Scrum framework

How do Scrum Masters establish Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide?

by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization

The entire Scrum Team is accountable for:

creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.

The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team's ________.

effectiveness

What is the Scrum Master accountable for?

establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide

Working in Sprints at a sustainable pace improves the Scrum Team's ___________.

focus and consistency

What is the Product Owner accountable for?

maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team

Developers

people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint.

If Scrum Teams become too large, they should consider...

reorganizing into multiple cohesive Scrum Teams, each focused on the same product.

Scrum teams are are ____________ by the organization to manage their own work.

structured and empowered

Scrum teams do not consist of ________.

sub-teams or hierarchies

The Scrum team is a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, ___________.

the Product Goal

What is necessary for Product Owners to succeed?

the entire organization must respect their decisions

How are Scrum teams cross-functional?

the members have all the skills necessary to create value each Sprint.

How are Scrum teams self-managing?

they internally decide who does what, when, and how.