This is an attempt to capture the mobile team's various roles and responsibilities. The roles and responsibilities were derived from assets provided during various ThoughtWorks trainings.
Roles
Responsibilities
Who
Product owner
Manages product roadmap (release deliverables, number of releases, frequency of releases)
Defines product vision for each release
Defines target audience for each release
Identifies and prioritizes functionality
Final decision when desired functionality exceeds capacity
Jon Katz
Scrummaster
Coordinates project workstreams
Manages scope
Manages external dependencies
Identifies risks/issues
Shepherds team leads
Evolves agile capability
Removes blockers
Tracks/reports velocity
Facilitates meetings
Helps optimize process
Kristen
Business analyst (BA)
Maintains story pipeline
Advises product on story priorities
Assists in creating acceptance criteria
Helps control scope
Provides story clarification
Showcases application
Tests stories for completion
Jon Katz
Kristen
Sam
Jon R
Quality assurance
Helps BA define acceptance criteria
Produce test cases/scenarios
Manual tests where they can't be automated
Executes in-depth tests against acceptance criteria to validate story completeness
Maintains automated tests
Structured exploratory testing
Integration testing
Broadcasts test results to the team
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Developer/engineer
Turns requirements into working software
Help with technical analysis
Help with detailed design
Help with architecture
Help with testing
Estimation of stories
Work with QAs to automate story test scenarios
Write code to satisfy acceptance criteria
Resolve issues and fix prioritized bugs
Decide own standards, technology and architecture
Presents work to QA/BA prior to final testing
Stand behind architectural decisions/patterns/best practices the team has agreed to
Jon R
Max
Kaldari
Baha
Joaquin
Rob
Sam
Tech lead
Responsible for code and design quality
Technical authority for the team; final decision on all major technical design issues
Escalate significant technical issues for resolution
Ensure code hygiene (refactoring, test cases, etc)
Education and guidance
Help onboard new developers
Ensure that developers' ideas are captured and clarified
Ensures team adherence to common standards
Help with planning/tracking
Represent dev team in meetings that facilitate planning/tracking when the rest of the team is not present
Assits BAs with scoping of story cards
Determine initial high-level estimates for stories
Assist QA in test automation
Ensure that dev issues are communicated promptly/regularly to scrummaster/product
Attend Scrum of Scrums meetings
Jon R
Sam
UX/Design
Gather real-world data to assess needs/requirements of users
Propose designs that define how the end user should interact with the feature
Provide functional expertise to QA in test writing/to devs during code writing
Assist BAs in narrative development process
Lead writing of usability testing
Capture recommendations coming from usability testing
