The Product Owner and ScrumMaster responsibilities

Scrum simplifies roles necessary for product development. It provides just three roles.

The Product Owner is fundamentally responsible for:

• answering WHAT needs to develop,
• priorities,
• acceptance criteria gathered in close communication with stakeholders and collaboration with team members.

See more about the role of the Product owner.

The ScrumMaster is responsible for:

• facilitation,
• organization of meetings and Scrum ceremonies,
• removal of blockers,
• system-level thinking and optimization.

See more about the role of ScrumMaster.

The agile team is responsible for:

• answering the question HOW to develop the solution,
• identification of blocker,
• estimation,
• delivery of the working product.