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Scrum Master Vs Product Owner Differences
Scrum Master Vs Product Owner Differences
Methodology)
Scrum Master vs Product Owner Differences in Agile Methodology (skills, duties and
responsibilities)
Agile is a methodology to do work in the easy and convenient way. Scrum is the most famous agile
Product owner
Scrum master
scrum team
stakeholder
In scrum software development methodology, Scrum master and product owner are two main roles, which
are responsible for separate areas of the project. Both are necessary for the project. In Agile
Scrum doesn’t have project managers. Instead, the team is empowered. They’re responsible for the
outcome, and they can manage themselves. The classic project manager ‘boss’ of the team isn’t needed
in Scrum.
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Scrum Master (SM)
In Agile development methodology, Scrum Master cares about that how the team’s work. Increases team
efficiency, motivate his team, spins, argues for changes that will ensure quality and timeliness.
Ensure observance of DoD. Thanks to the measured velocity know how much work will be done in the
Sprint. Thanks to the care of the compliance with the quality we are sure that the system does not fall on
the second day after the start. Thanks to his soft work well.
The Scrum Master ensures that daily stand-ups are held at a fixed time every day for up to 15 minutes.
Scrum master coordinate with his team friendly to make an ideal team for agile development.
Scrum master improve the product quality.
He protects his team from any distraction and helps them to stay focused and follow agreed-
upon rules for scrum meetings.
Scrum master accepts tasks and encourages his team to meet the deadline.
Scrum master is like a coach who helps his team to perform better.
Scrum master Cooperate with the Organization, to track the company’s progress and process.
A good Scrum master has a Project management, Engineering, Designing, Testing background
and disciplines.
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Duties of Scrum Master
He facilitates his team for better creativity and try his best to improve the efficiency of the
development team.
Scrum master is responsible for managing scrum process in Agile methodology, with the
coordination of scrum team.
Scrum master has the responsibility to removes the impediments for the scrum team.
Scrum master arranged daily stand-up meetings, scheduled meetings, demo, facilitate
meetings and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of
adaptation process.
He helps product owner to make product backlog in good shape and make it ready for the next
sprint
The product owner is a demanding position in agile methodology, PO need to understand the clear vision
of a product from the customer, end user or stakeholders point of view. The product Owner is responsible
for managing the product backlog and product backlog visibility. He ensures the business value of the
product.
First-time product owners need time, trust, and support to grow into their new role.
The Product owner should know the business value of product and customers demanding
features.
He should be available to the development team for the consultation, so that the team can
implement the features correctly.
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Product owner needs to understand the feature/program from the point of view of end-user, not
from the point of view of the developer.
In most organizations marketing is discussed on the sales level, product owner job is to
facilitate marketing persons and guide them to make those goals achievable.
The Product owner is responsible for the product, from a business point of view.
He assesses values, Develop cases,themes and epics to ensure that work focuses on product
strategy
He solves problems, complete trade-off analysis and makes decisions to stay on business
deliverable commitment track.
He collaborates with stakeholders during the concept development and visioning of the product.
He works with project managers and technical leads to priorities and determines the scope for
product development cycles.
The product owner is client’s voice. His job is to report ROI, product effectiveness and risk
analysis.
Sometimes the product owner and the customers are same, but sometimes the customers are
might be thousands/millions of peoples.
Product owner attends sprint demo and sprint planning meetings. Attending daily scrum is also
recommended but it’s optional.
He ranks the product features so that development team can clearly understand them.
is responsible for managing and developing the product backlog. He prioritized backlog of user
stories for implementation.
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He needs to make sure that user stories are explained well and alway in right priority in
backlog. Backlog grooming meeting practice is conducted by the team of product owners, but
it’s optional in some organizations.
Spend some time with the team to prioritize/groom the user stories with few team members. Not
all need to be involved.
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