What would be the responsibilities of a self-organizing Development Team?

Question

Options

• AUpdate stakeholders on the daily progress and keep the burn-down chart updated.
• BSelect the Product Backlog items for the Sprint and do the work planned in the Sprint Backlog.
• CWriting User Stories and reordering the Product Backlog.
• DDeciding on the value of the product features and value estimations.

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  92% (46)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

In Scrum, the Development Team is self-organizing precisely because they decide how to do the work - selecting which Product Backlog items to pull into the Sprint and then executing the plan they create in the Sprint Backlog (option B). This autonomy over "how" is the defining trait of self-organization.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is wrong because updating stakeholders and maintaining burn-down charts are typically the Scrum Master's facilitation responsibilities, not a core Dev Team duty.
• C is wrong because writing User Stories and reordering the Product Backlog belong to the Product Owner, who owns and prioritizes the backlog.
• D is wrong because deciding the value of features is the Product Owner's domain - the Dev Team provides effort estimates, not value decisions.

Memory tip: Think of the three Scrum roles as three questions - the Product Owner answers "What is valuable?", the Scrum Master answers "How do we work well together?", and the Development Team answers "How do we build it?" - which maps directly to selecting and completing Sprint work.

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