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This is utterly backwards.

The team owns it all - the process, the product, the technical artifacts, the code quality. If the team is looking to the PO or the Scrum Master to take responsibility for things, then they are going to fail.

The product owner is there to help the team understand what value they can deliver. The scrum master is there to help the team optimize the process. The team hopefully has developers on it who are there to help the team make well engineered pieces of code Maybe there are designers to to help the team make great user experiences. The team has specialists, but the team works collectively to deliver results.

If your scrum team has a bunch of engineers on it wondering how to get their voice heard over the product owner, you don’t have a scrum team building your software, you have a PO acting as a tech lead running a waterfall project.



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