Succeeding with Agile

Each Team Needs Exactly One Product Owner

On a team that is new to Scrum, the ScrumMaster job can be very time consuming. The ScrumMaster will be busy training team members on Scrum itself, encouraging them to think in different ways about the problems they encounter, removing impediments to the team’s progress, and more. Early on, this might even be a full-time job, depending on the newness of the team and the types of impediments team members face. Over time, however, things improve. Eventually the ScrumMaster has removed many recurring impediments, and the team itself has begun to master Scrum and has embraced its self-organizing nature. As these changes occur, the team needs less and less of their ScrumMaster’s time. If we were to graph ...