Understanding and Apply Scrum [P2]: Scrum Values - Scrum Values Flashcards
What are the five scrum values?
Courage
Focus
Commitment
Respect
Openness
How is courage defined
Scrum team members have courage to do the right think and work on tough problems
How is focus defined
Everyone focuses on the work of the sprint and the goals of the scrum team
How is commitment defined?
People personally commit to achieving the goals of the scrum team
How is respect defined?
Scrum team members respect each other to be capable, independent people
How is openness defined
The scrum team and its stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges with performing the work
[ Gunther Verheyen’s description]
What is the main point of the commitment scrum value?
dedication - applies to the actions, the effort, not the final result
[ Gunther Verheyen’s description]
What exactly are we committing to by the commitment scrum value?
- team
- quality
- collaborate
- learn
- do the best we can, every day again
- Sprint Goal
- be professional
- self-organize
- excellence
- agile principles
- create working software
- look for improvements
- Definition of Done
- Scrum framework
- focus on Value
- finish work
- inspect & adapt
- transparency
- challenge the status-quo
[Gunther Verheyen’s description]
How does scrum promote focus?
- iterative-incremental approach
- time-boxing
[Gunther Verheyen’s description]
How do we apply the focus value in Scrum?
- focus on what’s most important now without being bothered by considerations of what at some point in time might stand a chance to become important
- focus on what we know now and YAGNI
- focus on what’s most nearby in time as the future is highly uncertain and we want to learn from the present to gain experience for future work
- focus on the work to get things done
- focus on the simplest thing that might possibly work
[Gunther Verheyen’s description]
How do we apply the openness value in Scrum?
- open about our work, our progress, our learning and our problems
- open for people, and working with people; acknowledging people to be people, and not resources, robots or replaceable pieces of machinery
- open to collaborate across disciplines and skills
- open to collaborate with stakeholders and the wider environment
- open in sharing feedback and learn from one another
- open for change as the organization and the world it operates in change unpredictably, unexpectedly and constantly
[Gunther Verheyen’s description]
How do we apply the respect value in Scrum?
- show respect for people, their experience and their personal background
- respect diversity (it makes us stronger)
- respect different opinions (we might learn from it)
- respect for our sponsors by not building features that nobody will use
- respect by not wasting money on things that are not valuable or might never being implemented or used
- respect for users by fixing their problems
- respect the Scrum framework
- respect our wider environment by not behaving as an isolated island in the world
- respect each other’s skills, expertise and insights
- respect the accountabilities of the Scrum roles
[Gunther Verheyen’s description]
How do we apply the courage value in Scrum?
- show courage in not building stuff that nobody wants
- Courage in admitting requirements will never be perfect and that no plan can capture reality and complexity
- Courage to consider change as a source of inspiration and innovation. Courage to not deliver undone software
- Courage in sharing all possible information (transparency) that might help the team and the organization
- Courage in admitting that nobody is perfect
- Courage to change direction
- Courage to share risks and benefits
- Courage to promote Scrum and empiricism to deal with complexity
- Courage to let go of the feint certainties of the past. We show courage to support the Scrum Values
