Professional Agile Leadership Responsibilities
Posted by SCRUMstudy® on June 26, 2024
Agile leadership responsibilities encompass guiding teams through Agile practices and principles to achieve project success and organizational agility. Agile leaders facilitate effective communication and collaboration among team members, ensuring alignment with project goals and customer expectations. They promote a culture of continuous improvement by conducting retrospectives and fostering a learning mindset within the team.
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.
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Role
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Responsibilities
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Scrum Guidance Body
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- 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
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Portfolio Product Owner
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- Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for portfolios
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Portfolio Scrum Master
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- Solves problems and coordinates meetings for portfolios
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Program Product Owner
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- Defines the strategic objectives and priorities for programs
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Program Scrum Master
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- Solves problems and coordinates meetings for programs
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Business Stakeholder(s)
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- 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.
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Product Owner
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- 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
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Scrum Master
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- 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
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Scrum Team
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- 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
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