After a missed PI Objective on the county tax-assessment ART, council staff ask who “owns” the team. Which accountability belongs to the Scrum Master / Team Coach?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
When a PI slips, people hunt for a boss. The Team Coach is not the tax-assessment Product Owner and is not the RTE running the train. The job is to coach the team and keep its process healthy so the people who do own content and delivery can actually deliver.
Full Explanation
After a missed Team PI Objective, stakeholders often collapse several SAFe roles into one “owner.” The Scrum Master / Team Coach is accountable for coaching and for facilitating the team's process, not for backlog content and not for ART-level train facilitation. Product Owners own the assessment backlog; the Release Train Engineer coaches the train and facilitates ART events such as PI Planning. Recoding missed stories or absorbing those other roles does not discharge the SM/TC accountability.