Scrum Teams Overview - PD Ways of Working

Granicus Product Designer - Functional Onboarding

Scrum Teams OVerview

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Architects

Product Owner

Product Manager

Granicus Scrum teams typically have 5 to 10 members and include the following roles:

Scrum Master

Software Engineer

Quality Engineer

Team Lead

Product Designer

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Architects

Product Owner

Product Manager

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Scrum Master

Software Engineer

Quality Engineer

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Team Lead

Product Designer

Software Engineer

A Software Engineer’s primary function within a Scrum team is to write and maintain software, write and execute automated tests, and exhibit and develop Granicus Software Engineer Values and best practices.

Additional Responsibilites:

• Software Engineers typcially contribute production code to one or more codebases which their Scrum team is assigned to for maintenance.

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Quality Engineer

A Quality Engineer is primarily concerned with writing and executing test cases and automated tests in the Quality Control environment (QC).

Quality engineers perform:

• Acceptance testing
• Functional testing
• Unit testing
• Smoke testing
• Regression testing

• Performance testing
• Security testing
• Ad-hoc testing

• & more!

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Architects

Like Software Engineers, Architects assist with writing and maintaining software and exhibit and develop Granicus Software Engineer values and best practices. Architects take on more scoping and planning work, helping to determine the technical direction of the team. Architects represent the top technical authority on Scrum teams, and often make the most difficult technical decisions.

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Product Designer

3. UX brings value with design

4. Partnership with Scrum Teams

1. UX supports all stages of the Product process

2. UX brings value with research

Research artifacts and findings inform and enrich the design decisions made by the Scrum team.

The working relationship, including frequent communication and collaboration, between other Scrum Team roles and Product Designers is crucial to ensure that the development of our product features is guided by what we know about the people who use our products.

Product Designers, or User Experience (UX) Designers, work iteratively in partnership with Scrum teams and Product Managers. Unlike UI Designers, Product Designers support the full Product Development Lifecycle with data-informed and human-centered decision making.

A Product Designer’s work is founded in UX Research.

• Generative studies (such as observation and workshopping)
• Evaluative research (such as usability testing)

Design artifacts serve as conversation centerpieces for discussions around feasibility, effort, and impact which is used to determine a feature’s scope.

Product Designers also provide the finishing User Interface (UI) layers of an idea.

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Product Owner

The Product Owner is primarily responsible for defining stories and acceptance criteria, maintaining the backlog, and delivering roadmap concepts. Product Owners clarify requirements verify that completed stories meet requirements.

A Product Owner ensures the Scrum team maintains a balanced diet of work and acts as the team's protector from outside distractions and other impediments. As a Product Designer, your product owner is someone you will be in constant communication with.

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Product Manager

A Product Manager is involved with the business side of creating our products; they are primarily focused on the market and product strategy. Product Managers are responsible for product roadmap and feature definition, and the long-term product strategy. Product Managers work with non-technical teams invested in our Products.

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Scrum Master

A team’s Scrum Master is responsible for making sure the team lives by the values and practices of Agile Granicus, helping the team do the best work it possibly can. The Scrum Master is the overall process owner of the team, they work to remove any impediments to progress, facilitate recurring meetings, protect the team from over-committing due to outside pressure, and protect the team from complacency.

The Scrum Master also works with the Product Owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint. The role of Scrum Master can be filled by any team member and may rotate on a set schedule.

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Team Lead

The Team Lead is responsible for determining how to meet the requirements set forth by the Product Owner and Product Manager. Team Leads also mentor more junior members, and assist all members to determine the best strategies, and develop solutions.

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Granicus Product Designer - Functional Onboarding

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