QuestionQ301

Delivery

A team member asks about the quality-related responsibilities of the product manager, QA, and the team. What advice should the agile project manager provide?

  • A The entire team is responsible for quality and each team member is accountable for ensuring the success of every component.
  • B The entire team is responsible for quality, but each team member's role may vary as stated in the definition of done (DoD).
  • C The entire team is responsible for quality and QA is responsible for surprises, gaps, and other intricacies that may have been overlooked.
  • D Quality is the responsibility of the entire team, and the product manager defines the functionality from end to end.
Explanation

In agile delivery, quality is a shared, whole-team responsibility, but the concrete quality-related tasks performed by the product manager, QA, and developers differ and are documented in the team's Definition of Done (DoD), which operationalizes that shared accountability into specific, agreed-upon completion criteria for each role's contribution.

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