Agile Roles. Who is the Best Fit?

Your characteristics

Timebox: 5 minutes.

Each person in the team:

• Writes their name on an index card.
• Lists their strongest characteristics on the reverse of the card.
• Don’t discuss the characteristics (yet).

Scrum Roles

Timebox: 5 minutes

• Lay out the Scrum roles (from the role cards download) on the table.
• Sort Scrum’s tasks and responsibilities against each of the roles.
• Check the roles and responsibilities against the Scrum Guide. Do they align?

Brainstorm characteristics

Timebox: 5 minutes.

• Brainstorm all of the characteristics needed to do that role effectively, with all its tasks, in your organisation.
• Write each characteristic on a separate sticky-note.
• Once everyone has finished their brainstorming, place the sticky-notes against the roles.
• Merge and relabel sticky notes that are similar.

Bingo

• Take one of the roles.
• Read out each of the characteristics.
• When a person hears a characteristic that matches one they’ve written on their own card, tick it off.
• Call out BINGO when all of your characteristics have been ticked off.

Discuss

Who in the team has the best match of characteristics against each role? Why?