Step 2. Define your development team

RSS Reader

At Step 1 we have created new project called RSS Reader. In Step 2 will be development teams defined.

Who

Product Owner

Work that needs to be done can be easy distributed in more development teams. ScrumDesk connects teams in one virtually connected social community. This community is notified by ScrumDesk notification system about any change. Teams can be distributed over the internet.

ScrumDesk in network

New ScrumDesk project has one user at minimum, the author of the project is automatically imported as Scrum Master.

SCRUM defines few roles for team members:

Scrum Master is coordinator and SCRUM method implementation validator
Product Owner is someone who defines project requirements, features and stories. Product owner also defines priorities.
Developer or Tester is someone who is responsible for requirements implementation and its verification. Typically will estimate story size and implementation duration.
Visitor is anybody who can see project status, but can not change anything. Visitor can be managers, stakeholders.

Adding project members

Now we will add product owner and few developers.

Press + button to display all company ScrumDesk users. This list is managed by ScrumDesk administrator. See more in Administration screencast.

Select user called "ivan" and press OK button

Adding product owner

Choose Product Owner in combo box for ivan.

Select team member role

Now you can define others developers, testers and visitors.

Project members defined

Teams definition

Now we can define our teams. RSS Reader will be developed in 2 countries. In USA are stakeholders, Ivan, the product owner and Didier, the project Scrum Master. Team in Slovakia is developing product as outsourced team.

To define team, enter team name in column Team for every project member.

Your team members table has to look like this:

Teams defined

Step 1 Project definition TOC Step 3 Story Templates