Question on Scrum Guide
All,
I started going through Scrum guide and have a simple questions. The concept related to Product Owner says
"The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team.".
I agree with the first part and trying to understand the later one. I understand that PO creates the PBI for team which gets added to sprint backlog.
But dev team also decides to pick spikes and code refactoring items. Does PO agrees to these items (since these item doesn't add any value for PO) OR how does this happen?
Thanks,
Ank
The Development Team wholly own their Sprint Backlog, so they can decide to include work which they consider to be necessary even when its value is not apparent to the Product Owner.
they can decide to include work which they consider to be necessary even when its value is not apparent to the Product Owner.
Indeed. We faced this situation during a recent sprint (duration: 2 weeks).
A story was "upgrading Atlassian Confluence to its version 6". In the middle of the sprint, new version for Confluence "sub components" (PostgreSQL database, and some plugins) were released. So we added some sub-tasks in the Sprint Backlog, because it was impossible to anticipate this and so to create them during the Sprint Planning.
The Development Team decides on picking spikes and refactoring items for the Sprint even though the value of those items might not be understood by PO. But in order to have a meaningful communication within the team, some explanation for PO is needed.