Make Designers Part of Scrum Teams (Agile Software Development)

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Scrum teams are very important in the production of software artefacts.

UX, developers, the Scrum Master and Product owner should work closely together in order to create valuable high-quality software. However a developer may have different bottlenecks and expectations in comparison with the rest of the SCRUM team. How can we possibly square that circle?

A Designer outside the SCRUM team

A developer might work on multiple projects, and sit outside the SCRUM team. This is often chosen as the solution in SCRUM teams, particularly if the designer is not involved in a number of Sprints.

However, this can be seen as an un-SCRUM-like approach. Development teams should have all of the resources they need to complete their Sprint tasks, and how are they going to do this without a designer on the team?

One way this can work is by having a designer delivering work ahead of the SCRUM team, which in effect is much…