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Responsibilities of various Scrum roles in an organization

Posted by SCRUMstudy® on February 14, 2023

Categories: Agile Agile Frameworks Product Owner Scrum Master Scrum Team

Responsibilities of various Scrum roles in an organization

In the previous posts, we discussed the roles in Scrum, and their desired traits. Now let’s have a summary of the responsibilities of each role in a Scrum project. The table given below provides a crisp outline of responsibilities of the Scrum roles.

Role

Responsibilities

Scrum Guidance Body

  • Establishes overall guidelines and metrics for developing role descriptions for Scrum Team members
  • Acts as a consultant to projects across organization at different levels
  • Understands and defines appropriate levels of grouping, roles, and meetings for Scrum projects

Portfolio Product Owner

  • Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for portfolios

Portfolio Scrum Master

  • Solves problems and coordinates meetings for portfolios

Program Product Owner

  • Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for programs

Program Scrum Master

  • Solves problems and coordinates meetings for programs

Business Stakeholder(s)

  • Is a collective term that includes customers, users, and sponsors
  • Frequently interfaces with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team to provide them inputs and facilitates creation of the Deliverables of the project.

Product Owner

  • Creates the project’s initial overall requirements and gets the project rolling
  • Appoints appropriate people to the Scrum Master and Scrum Team roles
  • Provides the initial and ongoing financial resources for the project
  • Determines Product Vision
  • Assesses the viability and ensures delivery of the product or service
  • Ensures transparency and clarity of Prioritized Product Backlog Items
  • Decides minimum marketable release content
  • Provides Acceptance Criteria for the User Stories to be developed in a Sprint
  • Inspects deliverables
  • Decides Sprint duration

Scrum Master

  • Ensures that Scrum processes are correctly followed by all team members including the Product Owner
  • Ensures that development of the product or service is progressing smoothly and the Scrum Team members have all the necessary tools to get the work done
  • Oversees Release Planning Meeting and schedules other meetings

Scrum Team

  • Takes collective responsibility and ensures that the project deliverables are created per requirements
  • Assures Product Owner and Scrum Master that the allocated work is being performed according to plan