Involve the whole team. Primary responsibility for certain activities may fall to one person or group, as prioritizing requirements is primarily the responsibility of the product owner. However, the whole team needs to be involved and committed to the pursuit of the highest-value project possible. We see this, for example, in the advice that estimating is best done by the whole team, even though it may be apparent that only one or two specific team members will work on the story or task being estimated. The more responsibilities are shared by the team, the more success the team will have to
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