Roles and Responsibilities Flashcards
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In a large DA program with multiple delivery teams, the role of 'Product Manager' differs from 'Product Owner' primarily because:
Answer: Product Managers focus on strategic roadmap and program-level priorities while Product Owners focus on team backlog
At scale, Product Managers own the strategic vision and program roadmap, while Product Owners handle team-level backlog prioritization.
Which DA role is explicitly expected to participate in architecture decisions and provide business context to technical discussions?
Answer: Product Owner
The Product Owner participates in architecture decisions to ensure technical choices align with business goals and value delivery.
In DA, a 'Specialist' differs from a 'Team Member' in that specialists:
Answer: Have deep expertise in one area but may have limited breadth across the team's work
Specialists bring deep expertise in a narrow domain and may not contribute as broadly as generalist team members.
In DA's Disciplined DevOps layer, operations team members are considered:
Answer: Stakeholders and sometimes team members who help ensure solutions are properly deployed and operated
DA's Disciplined DevOps perspective includes operations as stakeholders or team members to bridge the dev-ops gap.
The 'Visual Management' responsibility in a DA team — such as maintaining information radiators — typically falls to:
Answer: All team members as a shared responsibility
Maintaining visible team information such as boards and radiators is typically a shared team responsibility, not assigned to one role.
In Disciplined Agile, what is the key responsibility of a 'Domain Expert' sub-role that may appear on some teams?
Answer: Providing deep subject matter expertise to inform team decisions and solution design
Domain Experts provide subject matter knowledge to help the team understand the problem space and make informed design decisions.
When a DA team scales to a program level, which role is added to coordinate shared services, resolve cross-team dependencies, and govern program-level risks?
Answer: Program Manager
A Program Manager takes on coordination, dependency resolution, and risk governance responsibilities across teams in a scaled DA program.