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Project team & agile roles

The Project Settings → Team tab is where you set who fills the agile roles on a project. It manages two independent things per member:

  • a team role — Member or Admin, and
  • two facets — Scrum Master and Product Owner.

Open it at Project → Settings → Team (/projects/:id/settings/team).

Every project has one default team, created automatically. Managing more than one team per project is not part of this release.

Role and facets are independent

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The team role controls who can manage the team. The two facets mark who holds the agile responsibilities. They are orthogonal — a person’s facets do not depend on their role, and you set them separately:

  • An Admin can also be the Scrum Master.
  • A plain Member can be the Product Owner.
  • One person can hold both facets, or neither.

Modeling the facets as toggles rather than as extra roles is deliberate: in real teams the Scrum Master and Product Owner are responsibilities layered on top of being a contributor, not a different tier of access. See Roles and Permissions for the underlying RBAC model.

Who can edit

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ActionWho
View the team list and who holds each facetAny project member (including Viewers)
Change a member’s team role, assign Scrum Master / Product OwnerProject Admin or team Admin

A project Admin can always manage the team. A team Admin — someone given the Admin team role on this tab — can manage the team without being a project Admin, so an agile team can run its own roles without involving project administration.

Viewers and plain Members see the tab read-only. They still see who the current Scrum Master and Product Owner are; they just cannot change assignments. The API enforces the same gate server-side regardless of what the UI shows.

Assigning Scrum Master and Product Owner

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Each member row carries a Scrum Master toggle and a Product Owner toggle. Turn one on to assign that facet to that member.

There is at most one Scrum Master and one Product Owner per team. If you turn on a facet for someone while another member already holds it, TruePPM prompts “Reassign?” to confirm — accepting moves the facet from the previous holder to the new one in a single step. Decline, and nothing changes. There is no separate “remove from the old person first” action; the reassign is the move.

To leave a facet unfilled, turn it off on the member who holds it.

Where this appears

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The Team tab is shown on agile and hybrid projects. It is hidden on Waterfall projects, where these agile roles do not apply — consistent with how the methodology preset hides tabs that do not fit the project’s planning model.

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  • ADR-0078 — Composable agile roles: team role plus orthogonal Scrum Master / Product Owner facets
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