Combined roles in Scrum

Agile forum, Brno – Mavenir, October 2018

Corporate Snapshot

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Our Customers Support

Mobile Subscribers

350+Carriers

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GLOBALLY

Industry’s

LEADING

TECHNOLOGYWith World’s First VoWiFi, VoLTE, and RCS

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Operating in

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2,200+EMPLOYEES

Worldwide

Leading VoWiFi / VoLTE, RCS and Messaging RCS Market Share

>50%Share of global

messaging

75%Share of RCS

in the U.S. and

Canada

71%Share of VoLTE /

VoWiFi in France,

Germany, UK

37%Share of VoLTE /

VoWiFi in the

U.S. and Canada

Source: Based on GSMA, GSA, TeleGeography and Mavenir (July 2016) – Number of launched Mobile operator networks ¹ LTM as of Q3’16.

Brno office founded

Mavenir evolution

RAN

EPC

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Monetization

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Roles

• Scrum Roles• Product Owner

• Scrum Master

• Team

• Business Roles• Eng. Manager

• PO proxy

• Team

Part time Scrum Master

Typically overlap with SW engineer

Pros:• Very good team insight• Acceptable by “hard core” developers

Cons:• It’s hard to have distance from common duties,

deliveries, etc.• It’s harder to see things in wider context (product,

company branch, etc.)

Full time Scrum Master

Typically former SW engineers

Pros:• Very good overall technical knowledge• Enough space to focus on right things• Brings new ideas on company level

Cons:• Developers want bigger insight from SM• “We don’t need them” attitude• Can be perceived as utopist

SM doing Engineering manager

Pros:• Our experience is very positive• Builds the team based on Agile principles• From “Agile utopist” into executive unit• Balance - what Company / Team / Individual / Product

wants/needs

Cons:• Works fine for small products -> one product one

development team• For bigger products needs to be scaled -> always

challenge• Find balance between “be SM” and “be manager”

Engineering manager doing SM work

Pros:

• One position saved ☺

• Fully understands business/product needs

• Respected by team – manager ☺

Cons:

• Thinks they know what is (not) possible

• Can forget to challenge “status quo”

• Has no deep understanding of Agile benefits

Engineering manager doing “PO proxy”

Pros:

• Working fine on high level

• Perfect roadmaps and long term planning

Cons:• Technical person is needed -> Architect

• Sync between Eng. Manager and Architect

Product owner & Architect

Pros:

• Very good team insight

• Knows what we want to achieve and can effectively align it with technology stack

Cons:• Heavily overloaded

• Has no time for commercial part of PO job

Why combined roles?

Thank You