4 C's of SCRUM

In professional career, promotions are often deemed as milestones over time to achieve your personal goals.

How about discussing some of the concepts or ideas rather to help you achieve those goals in a quicker better way?

To make it simple to understand, we will focus on the SCRUM and discuss these concepts to help you better getting the crux of the story.

SCRUM is not just an empirical process as it may seem but a load of opportunities for you to shine.

The 4 Cs of SCRUM!

You are right, there is only one C in the SCRUM but these 4 Cs are:

Communication

Communication is one the most critical factor in a professional career. The power of open and effective communication ensures there is common understanding and alignment as far as the objectives are concerned.

• How would this help you achieve your personal goals, consider a scenario where you are part of a team and you communicate with your colleagues and understand their point in terms of tasks, challenges and workarounds to solve a particular problem.

This actually builds up your knowledge and experience. (Check)

Collaboration

Agile teams collaborate in order to realise their common objectives, by putting their individual talents to good use; fuelled by communication, you can be a person to present your observations / solutions or help someone in your team to present their solutions to a problem.

• How would this help you achieve / accelerate your personal objectives? A leader is not just responsible for his tasks / objectives but for his or her team as well.

This individual effort plays an important role when it comes to team objectives.

Creation

Agile team discussion are there for a reason. Furthermore, to improve the performance of your team, you need to help them grow. you not just have to identify their hidden talents as a leader but you have to find a way to bring those hidden talents to light. Let them be creative, listen to them and let their geniuses shine. You as a leader is responsible to transform their concepts into concrete and valuable outputs.

• How would this help you become a leader? Yep! that is true, you are right. During a SCRUM follow the SCRUM process but also have some informal discussion with your colleagues and mates. Collaboration and communication will help you achieve this.

Win win situation, right?

Confirm

The process of validation and verification helps agile teams to make sure that the customer requirements / stakeholders' objectives are achieved. Daily stand-ups are the key factor here, you communicate on daily basis to avoid any surprises and keep every stakeholder up to date as far as the status is concerned.

• How would this help you become a leader or achieve your personal goals? Remember, Teams stand together, if one would fail, all of them will fail. In order to be successful, you as a team member; don't restrict yourself to your scope of work but to collaborate, communicate and be creative in help you and your team members to achieve success.

If you as a team member is help your team mate in achieving his or her goal, you are already a leader.

In order to thrive as team or a team leader, you have to harness the power of 4 C's of SCRUM and foster innovation & spectacular outcomes.