Sprinting Roles and Responsibilities (DRAFT)
- Allishah Luke
Product Manager/Product Specialists
Primary driver of the backlog refinement meeting
Co-driver of sprint retro/planning meeting, verifies team capacity, presents goals, confirms acceptance criteria
Primary point of contact for customer-facing teams. Makes the call on interrupts/priority thereof.
Contributes to release notes/documentation
Communicates release/launch items to stakeholders and epic progress and health to leadership team
Driver of Product Roadmap and communicates company and product priorities
Engineering Manager/SCRUM Master
Moderate the sprint daily stand-up keeping things on track
If necessary, fill in for the product manager or team lead during DTO/leave
Monitor and present the team metrics for the sprint
Monitor sprint progress and collaborate with product on interrupt work
Spike/tech design approval
Engineering Team Lead
Assists in leading retro
Organizes show and tell
Run the Story Plan sessions during planning
Active participant in tickets
Spike/tech design approval
Developers
Demo work during show and tell
Participate in story point poker (if used)
Ensure desk checks for the UI are scheduled for tickets that involve a workflow related change (this is done during refinement) - communication needs to be between product/developers for timeline for any changes etc.
QA
Review EPICs and User Stories to ensure the acceptance criteria, end-user workflows, and regression risk is clearly documented before committing to tickets
Participate in story point poker (if used)
Write Test Plans and review with the team during Desk Checks
Discuss/Review End- to -End automation plan
All
Communicate DTO and develop a plan during absence for coverage so sprint goals are met