- is responsible for operation of stand-up
- is responsible for writing any stories that may have been forgotten
- expert, direct, personal
- be professional AF
- Explore conceptual space to "find the product"
- over time will increase resolution of what the product should be
- finds the correct persona(s) to target the product toward
- produces stories for artisans that increase the "usability" of the product (that can be understood and executed by the artisan group)
- providing clarifications about intent to the artisan and delivery groups
- discovers the "business object model" that drives the language of the product
- Works with Artisan group to find ways to
- Exploring the implementation space to determine the best tactics
- Inform the Experience Group of possible technical constraints
- Writing stories that relate to increasing the "reliability" of the product (as opposed to the usability)
- Implementing of the design expressed by stories produced by the experience group
- Will respect the intentions of the experience group when implementing rather than substituting their own judgement (while providing productive feedback to the experience group)
- Maintaining implementation quality
- will advocate to the delivery group on behalf of reliability and quality.
- will provide meaningful estimates of work such that long-term planning can be productive.
- will help to formalize the "business object model" into terms strict enough to be implemented
- masters of allocations, responsible for tracking money burn rate
- backlogs having enough work to sustain upcoming iterations
- when the backlog does not have enough work for the current allocation, will work to find an appropriate solution.
- ensuring that backlogs are prioritized according to stakeholder needs
- communicating to stakeholders the trade-offs associated with their choices (with Experience and Artisan support as needed)
- Co-ordinates communication with stakeholders (which can act to protect the stakeholder from the team and the team from the stakeholder)
- ensuring that short-term and long-term plans are meaningful and well-understood
- grooming and removing redundancy from the backlog
- clarity about which stories are ready and prioritized and which have yet to be reviewed
- ensuring the project board is comprehensible, trustworthy, and visible to all team members