The Scrum Team is sometimes referred to as the Development
Team since they are responsible for developing the product, service, or other
result. It consists of a group of individuals who work on the User Stories in
the Sprint Backlog to create the Deliverables for the project.
Here is a video on Scrum Team: http://www.scrumstudy.com/watch.asp?vid=457
Scrum believes that employees are self-motivated and seek to
accept greater responsibility. So, they deliver much greater value when
self-organized. Self-organization does not mean that team members are allowed
to act in any manner that they want to. It just means that once the Product
Vision is defined in the Create Project
Vision process, the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team get
identified. Also the Scrum Core Team itself works very closely with relevant
Stakeholder(s) for refining requirements better as they go through the Develop Epic(s) and Create User Stories process. Team expertise is used to assess the
inputs needed to execute the planned work of the project. This judgment and
expertise are applied to all technical and management aspects of the project
during the Create Deliverables
process.
The chief goals of self-organizing teams are as follows:
·
Understand the Project Vision and why the
project delivers value to the organization
·
Estimate User Stories during the Approve, Estimate, and Commit User Stories
process and assign tasks to themselves during the Create Sprint Backlog process
·
Create tasks independently during the Create Tasks process
·
Apply and leverage their expertise from being a
cross-functional team to work on the tasks during the Create Deliverables process
·
Deliver tangible results which are accepted by
the customer and other stakeholders during the Demonstrate and Validate Sprint process
·
Resolve individual problems together by
addressing them during Daily Standup Meetings
·
Clarify any discrepancies or doubts and be open
to learning new things
·
Upgrade knowledge and skill on a continuous
basis through regular interactions within the team
·
Maintain stability of team members throughout
the duration of the project by not changing members, unless unavoidable
To achieve these goals, Scrum
Team members should ideally possess the following characteristics:
