👉 The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be.
When the Scrum values are embodied by the Scrum Team and the people they work with, the empirical Scrum pillars come to life, building trust.
Reminder: the Scrum Values are Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage.
So far I have covered the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review. What about the Sprint itself?
- Commitment to achieve the Sprint Goal, not necessarily the specific Product Backlog items. And achieve the improvements agreed during the latest Sprint Retrospective.
- Have the Courage to work on items that are outside your comfort zone. You’ll help the team with it and grow yourself.
- Focus on the work of the Sprint; to achieve the Sprint Goal. Say “No” to other work.
- Be Open to share hard nuts immediately with the team. You can start collaborating and crack these nuts together.
- Respect that colleagues can have a difficult day, that customers do not express their needs in your words, that managers have challenges that stress them, that ...
These are only one example of how each Scrum Value could be lived during the entire Sprint.
Summary:
The Scrum Values are a guide for the Scrum Team how to behave every single day during the Sprint.
The more the team and the stakeholders become skilled in living the Scrum Values, the better the outcome of your Sprint will be.
Prompt
Together with your Scrum Team, evaluate how the Scrum Values are lived during the Sprint; day after day.
How do you see that the values of Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness and Respect are lived? What can you do to make the Scrum Team live these even better?
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