What are the essential 'Scrum Values' that should be evident in your Development Team

An agile organization is a human-centric organization that embraces an agile culture, no matter the framework and processes implemented by management. The people in the organisation need to have the core values to implement an Scrum and its associated values.

This Agile mindset is guided by these 5 core values. Successful organizations constantly adapt their ways of working based on employee feedback and performance. Scrum values are a set of principles that help us be better and more productive members of the team. They are the personal qualities that make it even better to work with.

Keep reading this short article to learn exactly what the five Scrum values are, why it’s so important to promote these values within your team and begin reaping the full benefits of this powerful project management methodology.

Successful use of Scrum requires the team to live by these 5 core values

Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage

Commitment: Is necessary so that individuals can focus on completing tasks without being distracted by other things in life. The Scrum value of commitment is essential for building an agile culture.

Focus: An essential element for every member of the team is focus. It is needed to keep tasks in order and effectiveness of implementation. The Scrum value of focus is one of the best skills Scrum teams can develop.

Openness: Every member of the team should have a voice. The team should be open about what they know, what they don't know, and their opinions. Scrum teams manage to find opportunities for learning to grow their skills and knowledge on the job. Additionally, agile teams are honest about when they need help from others.

Respect: Agile teams know that their strength lies in how well they collaborate and that everyone has a distinct contribution to make toward completing the work of the sprint. Respect is needed in order for everyone on the team to feel safe and comfortable sharing their ideas, thoughts, and knowledge with one another. They share ideas with one another and are understanding when someone needs a break. They are also happy for each other’s accomplishments.

Courage: In order to make changes and take risks, each team requires courage. It is also needed for the team to share their ideas and knowledge with one another. The true value of courage is critical to an agile team’s success.

Implementation of Scrum Values

These Values become more evident as the Scrum teams become more productive. It is increasingly difficult to monitor personal values of team members. Coaching the team members about these core values will help outline the purpose of each and may foster a better commitment to these values.

All Scrum team members should commit to achieving the goals of the Sprint, as well as supporting their teammates throughout. They should stay focused on the work in order to achieve these goals. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders discuss the work openly, taking all challenges into account. Scrum team members respect one another and are confident in what they do. This allows for challenging topics to be discussed and solved to the best of their ability.

As outlined, theValues that guide the Scrum Team should be evident in professional workers whether they are involved in a Scrum process or not: collaboration, open honesty, self-organising, transparency and respect. The general stance of a successful Scrum team could be characterised by these values. The Scrum Team members learn and explore the values as they work with the Scrum events and artefacts. The review process will highlight improvements and may suggest the ability for the team to improve in an area. This teaches them openness, respect, empiricism and courage. When these values are embodied by the development team, they follow transparency, inspection and adaptation when it comes to their work.

Although these values are essential to the performance of the development team, the overall frameworks and approach within the organisation to Agile and Scrum need to be implemented.

What does it mean to be Agile in an Organisation?

Agile (adjective) —

- having a mindset or organizational approach defined by practising the values and principles with the the sense to respond to market changes.

- describing frameworks, such as Scrum, as well as methods, tools, and approaches that leverage customer feedback to deliver value in rapid, high-value increments.

Scrum Framework ( 3 - 3 - 3)

The Scrum framework consists of three events, five roles, and three artifacts.

The three events are: Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum Meeting and Sprint Review Meeting.

The three roles are: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team Member

The three artifacts are: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Product Increment.

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