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What is your experience from real-life, who should be responsible for a choice of agile planning tools to be used by the agile/scrum team?
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1. Scrum Master. A Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring a Scrum team is operating as effectively as possible with Scrum values. This means they keep the team on track, plan and lead meetings, and work out any obstacles the team might face.
Agile teams are, by design, flexible and responsive, and it is the responsibility of the product owner to ensure that they are delivering the most value. The business is represented by the product owner who tells the development what is important to deliver.
The scrum master helps the team enhance and streamline the processes by which they achieve their goals. They do so as a team member, or collaborator, ideally not as someone in control. The best scrum teams are self-organizing, and therefore don't react well to top-down management.
Team should decide whether a tool is to be used; but I think suggestion most commonly comes from the Scrum Master as (s)he is most likely to have experience using tools. Any team member can suggest tools of course.
Anyway, my feeling is that given Scrum philosophy, the whole team needs to agree on this in my opinion. Usually things start with "let's try this, see if it works", and is refined along the way, just like anything else in Scrum. It should not be top-down enforcement, same way as using Scrum methodology should be team decision, not handed down from top.
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