Roles in Agile Flashcards
1
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Common Agile Roles
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- The Customer
- The Team
- The Agile Lead
- The Stakeholders
2
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The Customer
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- Decides what will be done in what order
- Knows why they work is being done
- Is responsible for the ‘vision’ of the product
- Defines the items (stories) that are to be delivered
- Signs off the work as ‘done’
- If you know Scrum, you will know this role as the Product Owner
3
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A good Customer meets the ‘DARKA’ criteria
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DARKA D-Desire A-Authority R-Responsibility K-Knowledgeable A-Availability
4
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The Team
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Team Responsibilities
- Decides how to do the work
- Divides stories into tasks
- Estimates the work involved
- Decides who will do the work
- Delivers the Product
5
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Core and Support Teams
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Support teams exist to enable the core teams to do things right first time and are not there to ‘police’ or review at a delivery gateway.
Having support teams tends to lead to cross-team dependencies, which is why a fully capable core team is often considered to be better.
6
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Self-Organizing Teams
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- Provide estimates and options based on customer requirements
- Are accountable for delivering value
- Decide how to implement requirements
7
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Agile Lead
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- Enable the team to self-organize
- Enable the team to continuously improve
- Is experienced and knowledgeable about Agile
- Is experienced in transformation
- Is a ‘servant-leader’ to the team
- Removes impediments and blockers
- Facilitates workshops
- Manage the agile process
- Knowledge of agile principles, process and practices through coaching and training
8
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Stakeholders
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- Ensure the interests of groups they are part of are represented
- Provide key information needed by the team
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Identifying and Managing Stakeholders
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- A common approach when analyzing stakeholders is to map interest and power (influence)
- Evaluate each stakeholder
- Vary the approach for each stakeholder
- Helps to develop a communications plan
Keep Satisfied / Keep Engaged / Keep Aware / Keep Informed
