Lean Mobile App Development

Scrum team

For the Scrum approach, you will typically find three main roles, although some organizations do define others in addition to the ones listed here:

• Scrum master
• Product owner
• Development team (and that includes the testers)

Scrum teams have one product owner. He or she is responsible to ensure that the team delivers business value that is required. To do so, the product owner is the connection between the stakeholders and the (technical) team. The product owner is primarily focused on the business side (problem definition). The product owner defines the user stories and adds them to the backlog.

The user stories describe the features that need to be implemented. You can think of a backlog as a to-do list. The team has to commit ...