Chapter 2Meet the Team

Scrum is about how a team works together, so it's important to start with who the team is. Who are the people involved in a typical web or mobile development project, and what do they anticipate when they think of scrum?

We're going to be introduced to a few typical players in a web and mobile development project. The team we'll meet works at a fictional meme publishing company, on a service called WithKittens.com—an engine to add kittens to images on websites.

Each of the people working on WithKittens.com has objectives and problems that center around their part in delivering this critical service to their free-tier B2C and enterprise-class B2E customers. The jobs they hold in the WithKittens organization describe the ...

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