What is the Development Team responsible for?

Question

Options

• AWriting User Stories and ordering the Product Backlog.
• BReporting productivity and selecting the Sprint time-box.
• COrganizing the work required to meet the Sprint Goal and resolving internal team conflicts.

• A
  6% (1)
• B
  6% (1)
• C
  89% (16)

Explanation

In Scrum, the Development Team is a self-organizing unit responsible for deciding how to accomplish the Sprint Goal - this includes structuring their own work, coordinating internally, and resolving conflicts without external management. Option C correctly captures both the technical responsibility (organizing work toward the Sprint Goal) and the self-management responsibility (handling internal conflicts).

Why A is wrong: Writing User Stories and ordering the Product Backlog are responsibilities of the Product Owner, not the Development Team. The team may contribute to refining stories, but ownership belongs to the PO.

Why B is wrong: Reporting productivity is not a defined Scrum accountability, and the Sprint length (time-box) is decided collaboratively during Sprint Planning - not unilaterally by the Development Team.

Memory tip: Think of the Development Team as a self-managing crew on a ship - the Product Owner sets the destination (backlog priority), but the crew decides how to sail there (organize work) and handles any disputes among themselves (resolve conflicts). "Self-organizing + self-managing = Development Team."

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