New Scrum Guide

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland have presented the new version of the Scrum Guide. The only change is that there are additional two paragraphs in this latest update: Scrum values. The Scrum Guide changes not often, so it is always intriguing what has announced such a change. The last Scrum Guide updates were made in 2013. Although it seems like just two paragraphs, the additional five Scrum values provide teams, Scrum principles of inspection, adaption and transparency to evolve into a high-performing team. Pretty many teams try to execute Scrum without paying necessary attention to respect these values unfortunately. Because of they are out of implementing these values, they do not realize the advantages of the framework as they expected. People are in the middle of the Scrum, so this is important for organizations which are used this framework. First read new updated paragraphs and then let’s have a look at the values closer.

Scrum Values

When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone. The Scrum Team members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum events, roles and artifacts.

Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values. People personally commit to achieving the goals of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team members have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems. Everyone focuses on the work of the Sprint and the goals of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges with performing the work. Scrum Team members respect each other to be capable, independent people.

– The Scrum Guide July 2016

Commitment: Commitment for team and the sprint goal. If someone needs help in the team, you can help teammate to meet the sprint goal after your task is completed. It is important that commitment for personal development by cooperating each-other grow. Commitment is core value of Scrum. Commitment to make good job that we can. The last important one is that commit to the Sprint Goal.

Focus: We pay attention the most important issue right now and focus what we know about our work. We focus on learning as we can do present and gain practical knowledge to overcome undetermined works which will occurs next with avoid put at risk the Sprint Goal.

Openness: We need to be open about tasks, our daily standup meetings, our experiences and also impediments. Share knowledge and give feedback about learning. Open to change as an organization in unexpected, constant and progressive world. Open failures and struggles you face with sometimes. The vitality of openness is that Scrum demands transparency and openness in empiricism.

Respect: We respect diversity and thoughts which are not similar to provide getting strong. Regarding ability, competence and awareness of colleagues. There are accountabilities of Scrum roles to be wanted to see respect. Sharing experiences with team members professionally.

Courage:  Courage in transferring knowledge and all information with the team. Courage to share risks and benefits. Courage to prefer empiricism to deal with unpredictability and skillful to let in misunderstandings to be able to handle with complex problems.

The new Scrum guide comes with important values desired by Scrum Teams. This will help to implement Professional Scrum instead of robotic. This causes only monotonous scrum events. Professional Scrum gives the team energy and facilitates their work.