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SCRUM Values: Differently Viewed

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Commitment Because we have great control over our own destiny, we are more committed to success

We commit to the team. Commit to quality. Commit to collaborate. Commit to learn. Commit to do the best we can, every day again. Commit to the Sprint Goal. Commit to be professional. Commit to self-organize. Commit to excellence. Commit to the agile principles. Commit to create working software. Commit to look for improvements. Commit to the Definition of Done. Commit to the Scrum framework. Commit to focus on Value. Commit to finish work. Commit to inspect & adapt. Commit to transparency. Commit to challenge the status-quo.

Committing yourself to the team and Sprint Goal

Scrum team members must be committed to success and be willing to create realistic goals and stick to them. You must participate. It’s an “all in” situation where you’re part of a team, and your job is to work together to meet your commitments.

Focus Because we focus on only a few things at a time, we work well together and produce excellent work. We deliver valuable items sooner

We 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. We focus on what we know now and YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) helps retaining that focus. We 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. We focus on the work to get things done. We focus on the simplest thing that might possibly work.

Being focused on the sprint and its goal.

Focus on a few things at a time. You will have a clear role and clear goals within that role. Your job then is to do just that use your role to contribute to achieving the goal! You’ve made your goals and commitments earlier. Focus on those goals and nothing else. Don’t worry, contribute your best, be happy.

Openness As we work together, we express how we're doing, what's in our way, and our concerns so they can be addressed.

The empiricism of Scrum requires transparency, openness. We are open about our work, our progress, our learning and our problems. But we are also open for people, and working with people; acknowledging people to be people, and not resources, robots or replaceable pieces of machinery as software development -after all- is still the work of humans. We are open to collaborate across disciplines and skills. We are 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.

Highlighting when you have challenges and problems that are stopping you from success

Everything in your project, and everyone else’s project, is transparent and available for inspection and improvement. Gone are the days of six month down‐ ‐ ‐the road surprises.‐Fortunately, the very basis of scrum is the agile pillars of empiricism — transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Information radiators (big, visible charts) and real time intelligence allow for unfettered action. ‐You, your boss, your employees, your in laws — ‐everyone’s goals and progress are open and visible. You’re famous!

Respect As we work together, sharing successes and failures, we come to respect each other and to help each other become worthy of respect.

We show respect for people, their experience and their personal background. We respect diversity (it makes us stronger). We respect different opinions (we might learn from it). We show respect for our sponsors by not building features that nobody will use. We show respect by not wasting money on things that are not valuable or might never being implemented or used. We show respect for users by fixing their problems. We respect the Scrum framework. We respect our wider environment by not behaving as an isolated island in the world. We respect each other’s skills, expertise and insights. We respect the accountabilities of the Scrum roles

Helping people to learn the things that you are good at and not judging the things that others aren’t good at.

Each team member is selected for his or her strengths; along with these come weaknesses and opportunities to learn and grow. Each participant must respect everyone else. It’s the golden rule within scrum.Harmony is created by each role syncing and thereby creating a development rhythm as the project progresses. If one or another person is out of tune for a bit, because you’re held accountable as a team, it’s in your best interest to help that person.People want to do good work; it’s in our wiring. If you seek the positive, you’ll find the positive. Just as if you seek the negative, you’ll find the negative. Respect is the burning ember of positivity.



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Courage Because we work as a team, we feel supported and have more resources at our disposal. This gives us the courage to undertake greater challenges.

We 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.

Being transparent, but willing to change even if that means accepting that you are wrong, or that your opinion is not the direction that the team is going

Scrum is all about change. Scrum is about honesty, and every idea you have will in a scrum model get challenged. Is every procedure justified by “we’ve always done it this way”? Say good bye to ‐procedures done by habit and say hello to a process that is built on what the team finds to be successful.Fiefdoms will be challenged. Rules will be tested. Routines will be broken. Improvements will happen. Change can be hard. Change takes courage.Scrum takes courage

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