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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thanks for your feedback. I'm trying to figure out how this works, and I'm probably jumping ahead.
From my understanding this is about breaking projects down into bite sized pieces where you breakdown a project. Create a project backlog about features, from there you create a sprint backlog of tasks, and then hold daily meetings to discuss what was done yesterday and what is being done today and impediments.
From my understanding the Scrum master is there to coordinate between the Product owner (Who coordinates with the company or client on the backlog), and the development team or project team and keep the project on task for the spring right.
It all seems efficient, I guess what I'm missing and it might come later is
Who does the breakdown of the phases or sprints?
Who coordinates the changes in backlog, is it the product manager or the scrum master
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It's been a couple years since I've taken it, so forgive me on this. The job of the scrum master is to ensure that the development team is off and running with the Product Owner not coming in and making changes. So at the start of the sprint, the full team with the prod owner takes a look at the backlog. The prod owner owns that but it's visible to everyone. The PO says we need x, y, z to be done at some point (the backlog). The development team selects what they think they can get done within the sprint. They also ask endless questions about what features are included for clarification purposes and where needed the PO breaks down features further into smaller bits on the backlog if it wasn't properly broken down. It's the PO's job to clarify and break down the backlog further. The PO is not telling the developers how to do their job, that's what a self sufficient team should be doing themselves. The PO is filling in gaps on what features he needs and the dev team develops it but before that asks all the questions they have up front about those features. The SM simply facilitates the conversation to be productive at these sessions, and during development does some running around to prevent roadblocks.