From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
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Defining the agile team roles
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
Defining the agile team roles
- A lot of the ideas behind scrum were adopted from a Harvard Business Review article written in 1986. The paper described building a self-empowered team where everyone had a daily, global view of the product. The paper used rugby as an analogy and cited scrum as an example of a holistic or all-at-once team. A rugby scrum tried to push to a destination without discreet roles but as a self-organized group. The paper also introduced the idea of cross-functional teams. They described a cross-functional team as a group of organizational slices, different groups in the organization layered into one team. That means you could have teams that had customer representatives, testers, graphic designers, all working as one team. Because scrum was one of the earliest frameworks, many Agile teams still use the scrum language to the describe the team roles. This is true even if the Agile teams decides not to adopt all of scrums processes. In a scrum team there are three formal roles: The product…
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