The Scrum Team

Question 1

How many people are usually in a scrum team?

Answer 1

Typically 10 or fewer

Question 2

What does the scrum team consists of?

Answer 2

• A product owner who maximizes the value of the product that results from the work of the Scrum Team.
• Developers who create the product
• A scrum master who helps the team improve its practices and effectiveness

Question 3

What is a Product Owner?

Answer 3

A Product Owner is the member of the scrum team that is accountable for “maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the scrum team”.

Question 4

Who is responsible for creating a valuable product?

Answer 4

The scrum team as a whole is accountable for creating a valuable product, specifically “for creating a valuable, useful increment every sprint”. The product owner is the person who helps the rest of the team to gain clarity about what would be “valuable”.

Question 5

What are the accountabilities of a product owner according to the scrum guide?

Answer 5

Effective backlog management, including:
- Developing and explicitly communicating the product goal
- Creating and clearly communicating product backlog items
- Ensuring that the product backlog is transparent, visible, and understood

Question 6

Does the product owner own the product vision?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Do product owners both use agile product management AND scrum to fulfil their responsibilities?

Answer 7

Yes.

• Product Owners use agile product management skills and techniques to manage the product lifecycle and its long-term business objectives (e.g. market research, competitive analysis, product strategy, roadmapping).
• Product Owners use scrum and the elements of the scrum framework to deliver on their vision of the product (e.g. applying empiricism and experimentation for product and value discovery, crafting concrete, actionable and measurable product goals to provide focus for the scrum team).