Succeeding with Agile

New Roles, Old Responsibilities

The roles of product owner and ScrumMaster are critical for becoming a high-performing Scrum team. In this chapter we’ve looked at the responsibilities of the people in these jobs, attributes we’d like our product owners and ScrumMasters to possess, and how to overcome some common problems that occur when introducing these roles into an organization.

Although the roles of product owner and ScrumMaster are new, the responsibilities are not. High-performance teams have always known they needed to do the things described in this chapter. On a Scrum team, individuals are asked to look beyond their explicit roles to find ways to help the team accomplish its goals. In the next chapter, we look at what this new emphasis ...