Who is responsible for implementing the actions agreed upon by the team during a Retrospective?

Question

Options

• AThe Product Owner
• BThe Scrum Master
• CThe team

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  89% (25)

Explanation

In Scrum, the team collectively owns the improvements identified in a Retrospective - they committed to those actions together, so they execute them together. This reflects the self-organizing nature of Scrum teams: accountability is shared, not delegated upward.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Product Owner): The PO owns the product backlog and business value, not internal team process improvements. Retrospective action items are about how the team works, which falls outside the PO's domain.
• B (Scrum Master): The Scrum Master facilitates the Retrospective and may coach the team, but their role is to enable improvement, not to carry it out on the team's behalf. Doing so would undermine team self-management.

Memory tip: Think of it this way - who made the commitment owns the commitment. The whole team agreed to the actions in the room, so the whole team is responsible for following through. If someone else were accountable, the team would lose ownership of its own improvement process - which is the opposite of Agile.

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