Understanding and Apply Scrum [P3]: Scrum Teams - An introductory video series to scrum: Accountabilities

Question 1

What are the three accountabilities of a scrum team?

Answer 1

• PO
• Devs
• SM

Question 2

What is a good analogy of the accountabilities within a scrum team?

Answer 2

three legged stool

all legs equal in length — all needed to deliver value

Question 3

What is the PO accountable for?

Answer 3

product value

Question 4

What is the Dev Team accountable for?

Answer 4

creating the increment

Question 5

What is the SM accountable for?

Answer 5

effectiveness of the scrum framework

Question 6

Diff between role vs accountability

Answer 6

• role - job title, doesn’t matter in team
• accountability - series of tasks and actions that are instrumental for delivering product value → what matters in scrum team

Question 7

What is the PO accountable for as per the scrum guide? (4)

Answer 7

• 1) GOAL - developing and communicating a single product goal - inspiration and direction for team
• 2) BACKLOG CREATION- enaging with stakeholders and identifying requirements, then clearly creating and expressing them as Product Backlog items. Most knowledgable about product backlog, and help Devs refine and create clarify for what is needed on each item
• 3) PRIORITISE - ordering Product Backlog items. PO’s decision making is made transparent through the ordering of the product backlog items.
• 4) TRANSPARENT- Accountable for ensuring the product backlog is transparent and visible and understood by those who will turn the product backlog items into valuable product increment

Question 8

What is the main goal of the PO?

Answer 8

PO is accountable for maximising the value of the product

Question 9

What is the SM accountable for as per the scrum guide?

Answer 9

• establishing scrum as per the scrum guide - help the team understand the benefits and purpose of each part of scrum framework - both for team and wider org
• servant leaders
• serves product owner by helping them find techniques e.g. product backlog management, making product backlog items transparent, improving facilitation methods with stakeholders
• serves org - e.g. rships between stakeholders and scrum teams, planning and advising on scrum implementation withing org, enabling employees and stakeholders to enact empirical approach to complex work

=⇒ servers at different levels within org —> internal accountability to scrum team and external accountability to wider org

Question 10

What is the Dev accountable for as per the scrum guide?

Answer 10

• 1) during sprint planning and throughout the spring, they are accountable for creating a plan and adapting as needed - sprint backlog
• 2) commit to conforming to a definition of done - create and use it
• 3) during daily Scrum or whenever appropriate, they are accountable for adapting their plan each day to ensure it aligns with goal
• 4) hold each other accountable