A memorable way to identify the separate roles in Scrum is to compare everybody involved with a team, producing a movie.

The 3 Roles in Scrum (describing the “Scrum Team” itself):

• Scrum Master: The Film Director
• Team: The Actors
• Product Owner: The Storywriter

3 Additional Roles (I use to show how to handle other critical stakeholders who are outside the “Scrum Team” and normally not handled in “Standard Scrum”):

• Manager: The Studio Boss
• Customer: The Producer
• End User: The Audience

To demonstrate that in my seminars, I use our comics “The Scrumlies”. I thought, they might be useful for you too. So I am going to show them to you within the next weeks, one by one.

By the way… for everyone who was wondering, why our Advent calendar story was about producing a movie, now it will become clear.