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The Scrum ideal is that development team members are cross-functional, meaning they are flexible in the kind of work they can do to contribute to the team.
Reference
The fable of the Chicken and the Pig is used to illustrate the differing levels of project stakeholders involved in a project.
Wikipedia: The Chicken and the Pig
The remaining members of the SCRUM
team make up the development team.
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These team members commit to finishing
the development work of the sprint.
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The team shares a definition of done,
or a set of standards the team agrees
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to before they accept
a backlog item as finished.
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We will cover the definition
of done in more detail later.
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The SCRUM ideal is that development team
members are cross-functional, meaning that
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they are flexible in the kind of work that
they can do to contribute to the team.
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For example, a team member may typically
work as a front end developer, but
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if the tasks that the team needs
completed are in a different area, he or
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she may take on one of those tasks.
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This is desired even if it
will take that team member
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a little longer than someone
who does it all the time.
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Because at that moment,
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the team's sprint goal is more important
than optimizing one team member's output.
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It's expected in SCRUM that
any development team member
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can pull a task from the sprint
task board and begin work.
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When there's doubt about how to
best serve the team in a sprint,
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team members can look
to the SCRUM master for
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help in identifying ways the team
members can move the sprint forward.
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In SCRUM, the development team represents
the software engineers who write and
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test code.
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This is an important role because
in Agile the key measure of success
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is working software.
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As important as the product owner and
the SCRUM master are to the product and
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to the team, it's no exaggeration to say
that without development team members,
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the team is nothing.
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A humorous analogy to the role of
development team members versus the SCRUM
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master and product owner is a tail of
a chicken and a pig working together.
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[NOISE] They decide to
open a breakfast place.
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They're trying to think of a good name for
the place and the chicken suggests,
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Ham & Eggs.
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The pig protests saying, the thing is,
I'd be committed to the project,
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where you would simply be involved.
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The development team members
sometimes refer to themselves as pigs
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in SCRUM software development.
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But there's fair argument about
whether the SCRUM master and
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the product owner are pigs or chickens.
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Let's just say that in a good team,
I think we are all pigs.
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