What Are The Five Key Values Of The Scrum Framework? This Might Surprise You!
We have already mentioned that the scrum
framework is not only a software engineering
process. It also has a robust set of underlying
principles.
In fact, most of the professional business domains
can apply and utilize these principles.
It’s not enough to get a scrum certification to be
hugely successful with the scrum. You should
possess a firm grasp for scrum values to succeed
with the Scrum framework
So that you’re going to deliver a great job and
fantastic software that your customers and
employers love. Let me now tell you more about
those principles of the scrum process.
Scrum Value #1. Courage
There are times when doing the correct thing to
serve the best values and benefits for our clients
are not the easiest. In such moments, scrum
master, scrum product owner, and the scrum
team members should remember their duty and
obligation.
That's to build the best possible products and
services in their particular business and information
technology domain. To be better than
mediocre, a scrum team should sooner or
later face difficult decisions that won't make
everyone happy in their particular ecosystem
of stakeholders.
To deal with this, all members of the scrum team
should remember what they learned during their
scrum certification training.
They should remember to be courageous, and
they should master to decide and act
courageously.
Scrum Value #2. Focus
With the scrum framework, when you hear the
value focus, you should be thinking about two
things:
- Identification of correct work:
What tasks are necessary to deliver the goals of my sprint?
What are essential to developing the best
software products and services for my clients
so that they will be pleased with my work?
- Prioritization:
What tasks should I be working on next?
Each moment in time, there is one critical
question that the entire scrum team, including
scrum master and product owner, must be
answering.
This question is: "What are the most important
things we should be doing at the
moment to fulfil reasons of why an employer
hired us in the first place?"
Scrum framework has several built-in events
(rituals) to ensure the reasonable prioritization of
user stories and tasks. According to the scrum
process, the prioritization of user stories and
their associated tasks should have a continuous
priority.
So we make sure that the scrum team works on
the right things in the correct order.
Some of the built-in scrum ceremonies (scrum
events) to prioritize our work and adjust our
focus are:
- Scrum Grooming (Backlog Refinement) Meeting:
Scrum Grooming (Backlog Refinement) Meeting solely focuses on
prioritization for Product Backlog to prepare it
before the upcoming Sprint Planning Meeting.
- Sprint Planning Meeting:
These meetings
help us see the dependencies and correct
order of work to deliver our user stories.
- Daily Scrum Meeting:
Daily Scrum (Daily
Stand-Up) Meeting supports us to set the tone
of an upcoming workday. We must direct our
focus on where it's most required.
- Sprint Review Meeting:
Sprint review meeting
indirectly shows us where the emphasis of the 21
scrum team must be channeling to have more
successful reviews in the future.
- Sprint Retrospective Meeting:
These meetings support the scrum team to prioritize what aspects
of their engineering process must be first improved.
Here in this section, I covered scrum rituals only
from a focus point of view. You can find a more
detailed explanation about the scrum ceremonies
later in this material.
Having read all these, it must be evident for you
now how essential prioritization and focus for
the scrum framework are.
Scrum Value #3. Commitment
Without the commitment of scrum master,
scrum product owner, and the scrum team, there
is no possibility to deliver outstanding results
with software.
In the world of the scrum software development
process, most people translate the commitment
value as the agreement and confinement of goals
of given sprint deliverables.
Although this entirely makes sense, that understanding
is not flawless. Whenever you hear the word
"commitment" within the context of
scrum values; what you should remember is
the word: "obsession".
To be successful in software engineering and, in
life and business, you should become obsessed
with your goals. So in the context of the scrum
process, you should become obsessed with
creating marvelous software for your clients
to solve their problems.
Why are commitment and the associated
obsession with scrum goals so important?
Because without the obsession with the team's
mi ssi on to bui l d and del i ver astoni shi ng
software, each time the scrum team encounters
a non-trivial impediment, your work will slow
down and stall.
Then the scrum master and the scrum team
will start creating explanations to justify and
legitimize for scrum product owner why
they're unable to deliver sprint goals. Excuses
should have no more room in your team if your
goal is to become a better than an average scrum
team.
Only with an enormously high level of dedication,
it's relatively more comfortable and fulfilling to
solve the problems of our clients and help and
build value for them with software.
Scrum Value #4. Respect
Regardless of their age, gender, race, belief,
experience, competence, opinions, and work
performance, every member of a scrum team
must respect and count on each other.
This respect is not only confined within the
boundary of the scrum team. Moreover, every
internal or external IT and business stakeholder
who interacts with the scrum team is utterly
respected and welcomed by a scrum team.
Experienced team members must pay
attention in order not to invalidate the
willingness of the contribution from less
experienced team members.
It's particularly crucial to properly receive and
answer opposite opinions that the majority of
the group do not agree with.
Scrum Value #5. Openness
The scrum value "openness" is often one of the
primary differentiators between an average and
high-performer scrum team. It would help if you
resembled the openness capability of a scrum
team to the vast ability of a collection of
open minded individuals.
They're creative, innovative, intellectual,
honest, direct, and humble. In the scrum
software engineering and delivery process,
there is no inappropriate opinion, decision,
and action.
The only condition is that they must be
transparent, and they should aim to contribute to
the joint mission of the scrum team.
It doesn't mean that every decision and action
must necessarily accelerate the outputs of the
scrum team, and they should result in substantial
success stories.
Thanks to openness and courage values, the
scrum software development group is not afraid
of making mistakes.They see their errors and
less than optimal outcomes as vital chances
to meaningfully improve their overall
productivity and quality of work.
Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, Openness
are the vital Scrum Values you always keep in mind.
Share It With Your Colleagues and Friends to Help Them Learn:
What Are The Five Key Values Of The Scrum Framework? This Might Surprise You!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SCRUM INSTITUTE™
