Agile teams and responsibilities

SKA software development is organized in agile teams.

Development team

See https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-teams/

Scrum Master

The Scrum Master of each team is responsible for the process the team follows. A generic description of this role can be found on the SAFe website. The SKA Scrum Masters are also responsible for:

  • Meet the team, make sure they know each other and find a nice way to present interests, skills and get to know each other. Lead the team to find a name they like.

  • Make sure all team members can access SKA confluence and jira.

  • Make sure all team members have access to SKA video conferencing tools.

  • Create a team page on the SKA confluence portal describing who belongs to the team and their role. This page will serve as an entry point for team related information.

  • Use the Team Jira board to plan and report team activity happening in the development sprints.

  • Run sprints planning/retrospective/reviews cycles and daily stand-up meetings with the team, making sure the team follows an improvement process.

  • Work with the team in order to understand the SKA Definition of Done and development practices.

  • Setup and maintain a slack channel for the team according to the slack usage guidelines.

  • Setup and maintain a gitlab team including all team members under the SKA organization gitlab account.

  • Manage permissions on gitlab repositories the team is working on.

  • Maintain consistency between the team composition on the various tools and platforms, and make sure that team members are using those in an appropriate way.

  • Take part in the Scrum Of Scrums meeting, coordinating their activity with all the SMs participating in the development effort.

Product Owner

See https://www.scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/

The SKA PO is responsible for:

  • Maintaining the team backlog.

  • Ensuring all tickets are following the SKA Definition of Done.

  • Providing the iteration goals and an overall description of tickets that will be undertaken in the iteration during the iteration planning.

  • Attending the DSUs and helping the team with any questions related to the work.

  • Clarifying any questions/issues about the features with the FOs.

  • Attending the related SAFe meetings and organising the material for them working with the SM.

  • Helping FOs in backlog prioritisation/definition for the next PI.