Let's get familiar with the most common agile terms and how they bind together. Here, you will learn about the agile scrum process, which is widely adopted. The agile scrum process has a small sprint cycle of 1 to 3 weeks, depending on the project's stability, but the most common is a 2-week sprint cycle, which you can call a development cycle.
These sprints are development cycles where the team will analyze, develop, test, and deliver a working feature. The team takes an iterative approach and creates a working building block of the product as the project progresses with each sprint. Each requirement is written as a user story that keeps a customer persona in mind, and makes the requirement clearly visible.
The agile scrum team has varied roles. Let's understand the most common roles and how the solution architect collaborates with them:
- Scrum Team: This consists of the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and development team. Analysts, technical architects, software engineers, software testers, and deployment engineers are part of the development team.
- Scrum Master: This facilitates all scrum ceremonies (which you will learn in next section), keeps the team motivated, and removes impediments for the team. The Scrum Master works with the solution architect to remove any technical blockers and get technical clarification for business requirements.
- Product owner: This is a businessperson who is a customer advocate. The product owner understands market trends and can define priorities within the business. The solution architect works with the product owner to understand the business' vision and keep it aligned with the technical view.
- Development team: They do product implementation and are responsible for the project's delivery. They are a cross-functional team that is committed to continuous and incremental delivery. The solution architect needs to work closely with the development team for smooth product implementation and delivery.