Scrum roles

The various levels of Services in the 3 Scrum Roles

The 3 Scrum Roles are:

  • The Product Owner
  • The Scrum Master
  • The Development team

The various levels of services in the Scrum roles are:

  • Scrum Master serves the Development Team
  • Development Team serves the Product Owner
  • Product Owner serves the stakeholders.

The accountability of the the various roles are:

  • Product Owner is accountable for the value being delivered.
  • Scrum Master is accountable for building High performing Scrum Teams by ruthlessly removing impediments and facilitating Development Team decisions. And the best way a Scrum Master can remove impediments is to empower/teach/coach the Development Team to remove them themselves. Only if the team is stuck the Scrum Master removes the impediments himself.
  • Development Team manages itself and is accountable to build a releasable increment of software that adheres to their agreed ‘Done’ at the end of every sprint