We all know that Scrum proposes us only 3 roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster and Team Member. During my work as a trainer I saw many teams that failed to manage project architecture, technical decisions and design solutions in new more flexible way. Without strong technical background team members make mistakes. Those mistakes are very hard to detect and prevent without strong technical leadership and well established engineering process. There should be somebody responsible for both of these things and Tech Lead is a very suitable role for this purpose. I believe that Agile projects can easily live without Project Manager but missing Tech Lead role will cost team much more.

1. Tech Lead role for Agile
project success
Mikalai Alimenkou
http://xpinjection.com
@xpinjection

4. WTF?!? Only 3 roles?
REGULAR
TEAM
MEMBER

5. What about
architecture?
Freedom! Architecture
is simple! I will do the
best project ever!
Later…
But… I did
everything right…

7. Technical leadership is
important

8. Tech Lead may be ScrumMaster
• Experience
• Natural leadership
• Deep processes
knowledge and
understanding
• Integrated with
technical side

9. Tech Lead is also writing code
Hm… I really
like coding!

10. Tech Lead cost is not so high

11. You can save on managers!
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12. @xpinjection
http://xpinjection.com
mikalai.alimenkou@xpinjection.com