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- Be cross functional- identify your secondary skills
- Collaborate and communicate more with everyone
- Be ready to take on tasks that may not be your primary skill
- Be available through out the project life cycle
- Liaison with product owner to prepare product backlog
- Help product owner prioritize product backlog items
- Support product owner in maintaining the product backlog
- Support product owner in defining the acceptance criteria for “Done”
- Participate in the session by sizing the backlog items
- Ask more questions to understand the scope of the requirement correctly
- If required, explain the product backlog item scope and functionality as required to the entire team prior/during the session
- Add value by providing insights on the scope, technical constraints, testing challenges of the backlog items during the session
- Express your thoughts to support your estimates
- Participate in team discussions to prioritize the backlog items
- Identify risks , constraints and dependencies and be prepared to share these constraints,
- Aid the discussions towards maintaining balance between choosing high business priority items and items that will help mitigate high magnitude risks
- Participate in daily stand up calls. Talk about aspects specific to your tasks.
- Show interest in what others in team are doing
- Propose solutions to resolve impediments faced by team
- Participate in discussions to identify what will be accomplished in the iteration
- Identify tasks to be done to complete the backlog item
- Estimate hours for the tasks and commit to them
- Declare your available capacity for the iteration and commit to it
- Collaborate with team and assess iteration results
- Provide quick recap of objectives to whole team including business for shared understanding (where ever required)
- Participate and share your experiences with others about what went well and what didn’t in the iteration
- Discuss lessons learnt and identify action plans to follow as a team
- Participate in discussions on scorecard measures
- Use the scorecard to understand the health of the project
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