Succeeding with Agile

Programmers

What do programmers do on a Scrum team? They program. They test. They analyze. They design. They do anything necessary to help the team complete the work committed to for a sprint. Although it is OK to have specialists on a Scrum team, specialists need to be willing to work outside their specialties whenever needed for the greater good of the team. There are exceptions. A game development project may, for example, benefit from specialists in artificial intelligence programming. Because of the highly specialized nature of their product, these specialists may do nothing outside their specialty. The majority of programmers on a Scrum team, however, should be willing to contribute in any number of ways to optimize the throughput of ...