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Scrum Master Responsibilities 

Product Owner (PO) Lead Responsibilities

Backlog Grooming

Standups 

Blockers

  • PO Lead and Scrum master must work together to address blockers. If a story has been in 3 sprints then we have a problem....  

Grooming 

  • Vega is a unique team with multiple POs. PO Lead and Scrum-master must coordinate on making the call to POs for requirements. Team wants several days to review requirements prior to grooming. 
  • Prioritizes the list of stories for grooming. 
  • PO lead or Scrum master post the stories for grooming on #vega slack channel. 

Team Sprint Reviews 

  • In Review stories represent work that the is ready for the PO to test on snapshot. It is important that POs review stories at the end of the sprint to assess team velocity. 
  • If the story has been in the In Review bucket for 3-4 business days then the team can reassign the story to be tested by manual testers BUT not some stories cannot be assigned to this group. 
  • Also the PO lead may need to step in and verify the user story for doneness. OR gently nudge POs to do testing. 
  • Another option is for the Scrum master to schedule a recurring review meeting to help move some stories to Done. 

Sprint Planning 

  • Is a required attendee. S/he is the person who will prioritize stories considered for the sprint and will be asked to approve the stories that the team has accepted for the sprint. 
  • Key thing - inform team of sprint's theme and priorities

System Demos

BugFest 

  • Triage assigned Vega bugs
  • Ask Vega to accept P1/P2 bugs into sprint 
  • Ensure bugs are tested by POs 
  • Contact Khalilah or Cate to have updated release modules deployed to BugFest

Quarterly Release

  • Remind team( including POs) to add Release notes - Cross Release Statistics
  • See bugfest for handling hot fixes
  • In planning sprints, try to have smaller items scheduled for the sprint of a release. Not always possible but it ensures that critical features are complete and not half complete. 

Feature planning