According to Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning, the Scrum Master is: ...responsible for making sure a Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum. The ScrumMaster protects the team by making sure they do not overcommit themselves to what they can achieve during a sprint. The ScrumMaster facilitates the daily scrum and becomes responsible for removing any obstacles that are brought up by the team during those meetings. The ScrumMaster role is typically filled by a project manager or a technical team leader but can be anyone.
Whereas the Product Owner is: ... (typically someone from a Marketing role or a key user in internal development) prioritizes the Product Backlog. The Scrum Team looks at the prioritized Product Backlog and slices off the top priority items and commits to completing them during a sprint. These items become the Sprint Backlog. In return for their commitment to completing the selected tasks (which, by definition, are the most important to the product owner), the product owner commits that he or she will not throw new requirements at the team during the sprint. Requirements are allowed to change (and change is encouraged) but only outside the sprint. Once the team starts on a sprint it remains maniacally focused on the goal of that sprint.
Product owner is responsible for concepts and ideas (i.e. the backlog), while Scrum Master is responsible for execution and quality so the Product Owner wants more features while Scrum Master is focusing on getting it done
Scrum is facilitated by a ScrumMaster, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal/deliverables. The ScrumMaster is not the team leader, but acts as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences.
The Product Owner represents the stakeholders and is the voice of the customer. He or she is accountable for ensuring that the team delivers value to the business. The Product Owner writes customer-centric items (typically user stories), prioritizes them, and adds them to the product backlog.
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Sat, 02/02/2013 - 15:20
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According to Mike Cohn,
According to Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning, the Scrum Master is: ...responsible for making sure a Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum. The ScrumMaster protects the team by making sure they do not overcommit themselves to what they can achieve during a sprint. The ScrumMaster facilitates the daily scrum and becomes responsible for removing any obstacles that are brought up by the team during those meetings. The ScrumMaster role is typically filled by a project manager or a technical team leader but can be anyone.
Whereas the Product Owner is: ... (typically someone from a Marketing role or a key user in internal development) prioritizes the Product Backlog. The Scrum Team looks at the prioritized Product Backlog and slices off the top priority items and commits to completing them during a sprint. These items become the Sprint Backlog. In return for their commitment to completing the selected tasks (which, by definition, are the most important to the product owner), the product owner commits that he or she will not throw new requirements at the team during the sprint. Requirements are allowed to change (and change is encouraged) but only outside the sprint. Once the team starts on a sprint it remains maniacally focused on the goal of that sprint.
Product owner is responsible for concepts and ideas (i.e. the backlog), while Scrum Master is responsible for execution and quality so the Product Owner wants more features while Scrum Master is focusing on getting it done
VictorSimson
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 11:32
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Scrum Master and Product Owner
Scrum is facilitated by a ScrumMaster, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal/deliverables. The ScrumMaster is not the team leader, but acts as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences.
The Product Owner represents the stakeholders and is the voice of the customer. He or she is accountable for ensuring that the team delivers value to the business. The Product Owner writes customer-centric items (typically user stories), prioritizes them, and adds them to the product backlog.
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