Forming the Scrum Team
The Scrum team consists of multiple people, filling multiple roles. As a result, developers and other roles must gather in a way that allows them to do their jobs effectively. A Scrum team consists of developers, testers, a Scrum Master, and a Product Owner. Each of these roles is a stakeholder and ultimately benefits from the success of a project. However, the way these roles interact requires the team members to have an understanding of each other.
Roles of the Scrum Team
The development team is a cross-functional team that consists of a series of roles, including analysts, testers, and coders. Analysts address details around how a product works. They determine input methods, output layout, security measures, and other facets. If developers have any questions or concerns about these details, they must ask the analysts. With such intricate information, developers and analysts must be able to effectively communicate. Without a mutual understanding, analysts may not realize what developers are asking, and developers may not be able to translate analysts’ decisions into working code. Team members in these roles must be able to discuss needs and possible solutions with clarity.
Testers make sure that developers code does what it was intended to do without error. Does the code handle unexpected inputs gracefully? Do edge cases produce anticipated results? Developers focus on creating software and often overlook some areas of testing. The biggest challenge between testers and developers is to understand that problems and bugs are not personal attacks. Therefore, testers and developers on the same team must be able to handle criticism professionally. Testers are obligated to find bugs and try to break developer code. Developers must realize that they make mistakes in their code, and these mistakes must be fixed. Both parties share the goal of creating a polished product for stakeholders.
Recommended Further Reading
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Course Contents
Section 1: Agile Project Management
Section 2: Using the Agile Manifesto to Deliver Change
Section 3: The 12 Agile Principles
Section 4: The Agile Fundamentals
Section 5: The Declaration of Interdependence
Section 6: Agile Development Frameworks
Section 7: Introduction to Scrum
Section 8: Scrum Projects
Section 9: Scrum Project Roles
Section 10: Meet the Scrum Team
Section 11: Building the Scrum Team
Section 12: Scrum in Projects, Programs & Portfolios
Section 13: How to Manage an Agile Project
Section 14: Leadership Styles
Section 15: The Agile Project Life-cycle
Section 16: Business Justification with Agile
Section 17: Calculating the Benefits With Agile
Section 18: Quality in Agile
Section 19: Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog
Section 20: Quality Management in Scrum
Section 21: Change in Scrum
Section 22: Integrating Change in Scrum
Section 23: Managing Change in Scrum
Section 24: Risk in Scrum
Section 25: Risk Assessment Techniques
Section 26: Initiating an Agile Project
Section 27: Forming the Scrum Team
Section 28: Epics and Personas
Section 29: Creating the Prioritised Product Backlog
Section 30: Conduct Release Planning
Section 31: The Project Business Case
Section 32: Planning in Scrum
Section 33: Scrum Boards
Section 34: Sprint Planning
Section 35: User Stories
Section 36: User Stories and Tasks
Section 37: The Sprint Backlog
Section 38: Implementation of Scrum
Section 39: The Daily Scrum
Section 40: The Product Backlog
Section 41: Scrum Charts
Section 42: Review and Retrospective
Section 43: Scrum of Scrums
Section 44: Validating a Sprint
Section 45: Retrospective Sprint
Section 46: Releasing the Product
Section 47: Project Retrospective
Section 48: The Communication Plan
Section 49: Formal Business Sign-off
Section 50: Scaling Scrum
Section 51: Stakeholders
Section 52: Programs and Portfolios