1. Agile Roles
What do I do now?

2. Topics
Scrum
Agile/Self Organizing Teams
How specific roles differ
questions?

3. Scrum?

4. Scrum
Unlike other Agile methods, Scrum has
formal roles
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Team
Chickens and Pigs

5. Self Organization

6. Agile Roles
Cross Functional
Paired
less time in meetings, more time
doing
Daily stand ups instead of status
meetings

7. Project Manager Role
Work the problem/issues, not the plan
or people
Less detailed plan, if at all
Less detailed estimates
liaison between Agile and Traditional
provide Facade services
protect the team

8. Analyst Role
works with testers to define
scenarios
focus on light weight documentation
user stories/specification-by-
example
work side-by-side with developers
less focus on documentation

9. Developer Role
not just a code-monkey
understands the requirements
works with the business

10. Tester Role
works closely with analysts to
understand requirements
focus on automated tests
focus on test leadership not
execution

11. Team mate Role
Analyst/Developer/Tester/Project Manager

12. Agile Teams
100% committed to project
co-located
cross-functional

13. Visual Project
Management
crucial to all roles
short feedback loops
Kan Ban board

14. Why cross-
functional?
minimize blocks and bottlenecks
minimize waste
maximize flow
minimize hand offs and
miscommunication

15. Just enough
just enough architecture in Iteration
0 to get started
just enough estimation to get
approval

16. Agile Project
Charter
As A : I will : When : So That
Agile Team Member
Update my tasks on the Kan Ban
Board
Every Day
The status of the project is known

17. Questions