Accountabilities

Product Vision: Craft a Product Vision that points the team in a meaningful direction.
Product Strategy: Define a strategy enabling the team to decide what to do and what not to do.
Goals: Set meaningful goals that enable teams to focus and intensively collaborate towards a unique direction.
Value Maximization: Prioritize meaningful problems that maximize the outcomes for users and businesses.
Communication: Ensure stakeholders are well-informed about results, decisions, progress, etc. In summary, they should never say, “I was unaware of that.”

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management: Engage with stakeholders to partner up and create value for products. This includes organizing meetings, workshops, communication, etc.
Backlog Management: Curate, sort, and clean up the Product Backlog to ensure it has the most relevant items to create value.
Roadmap: Craft product roadmaps to provide perspective and set expectations on where the product is heading.
Monitor results: Constantly evaluate KPIs to understand how the product creates value for end-users.
Product Discovery: Ensure continuous learning to enable innovation and solve problems users care about.

ScrumMaster:

Scrum Understanding: Ensure business stakeholders understand how to play the Scrum game.
Atmosphere: Develop a collaborative atmosphere with a balance between learning and delivering.
Framework: Ensure that all Scrum events occur and that all artifacts are created as defined in the Scrum Guide.
Teams’ Effectiveness: Enable the team to grow and become as effective as possible.
Enable Self-management: Unleashes the team’s potential by helping them become self-managing teams.

Ensure the Sprint Retrospective takes place: The Scrum Master may facilitate the Sprint Retrospective, but the responsibility is ensuring that it happens. Another team member can run the show.
Ensure Retrospectives End Up with Actions: After each Sprint, Scrum teams discuss how to get better as a team. Scrum Masters ensure the result of the session has clear agreed actions.
Coach stakeholders: Invest whatever is necessary to coach key business people to enable teams to thrive with Scrum.
Scrum Events: Ensure the team respects the Scrum Events frequency and timeboxes them.

Development Team:

Quality: Ensure the code meets the agreed quality standards.
Scalability: Creates solutions that scale to the required business needs.
Efficiency: Guarantee solutions are efficient from the users’ perspective.
Maintainability: Develop an application that can be maintainable by other professionals.