### 6.3.4 Agile Team Member (ATeM)
The Agile Team Member (ATeM) focuses on **producing the actual information system** that is part of the project’s solution to the stakeholders’ needs. This role encompasses different information system development disciplines such as **architecture, analysis, design, programming, testing, planning and estimation**. An Agile Team Member (ATeM) has **cross-disciplinary skills** though the degree of specialisation in each discipline varies from individual to individual. Independent of the background and experience, the Agile Team Member (ATeM) **collaborates with the rest of the Agile Project Core Team (A-PCT)** members in a skill-growing environment. They can ===be seen as generalists=== as opposed more traditional, highly-specialised roles such as developers, analysts and testers.
**Responsibilities**
- **Participates in planning and estimation of iterations, releases**.
- **Participates in the solution architecture design**.
- **Develops** part of the information system, in collaboration with the solution architecture design. **Tests** developments.
- **Provides progress information** to the Team Coordinator.
- Decides the **best way to do the work** in each iteration.
- **Communicates and collaborates** with the rest of the Agile Project Core Team (A-PCT).