written  by fmessoud

4 septembre 2020

Scrum Values and pillars

What are Scrum values and pillars ?!

Scrum’s three pillars : 

1 – Transparency: Transparency means:

• Providing visibility of information about the work and the outcome.
• Using common standards for information so that observers will share the common interpretation and understanding.

By transparency, the significant aspects of the work must be visible to those responsible for the outcome.

2 – Inspection: performing frequent reviews of the Scrum artifacts and progress towards the Sprint Goal to get early feedback on undesirable variances.

3 – Adaptation: performing adjustments if the inspection finds variance beyond acceptable limits, and hence the resulting product will be unacceptable. The Scrum Team has collective responsibility to make the adjustments as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.

The Scrum Team lives by Scrum Values so that the Scrum Pillars come to life Scrum values are a set of fundamental qualities underpinning the Scrum framework. Scrum Teams live by five values: commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect. Being proficient in living these values brings the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation to life and builds trust for everyone. 

Scrum’s fives values : 

1.Commitment of every team member to achieve the goals of the Scrum Team. Commitment in following the pillars of empiricism and self-organization and using them to achieve the goals.

2. Courage to work on tough problems. Courage to do the right thing by accepting that the future cannot be predicted and responding to emerging change. Courage helps everyone to be grounded in reality, not giving into personal pride.

3. Focus of the team on prioritizing and completing the Sprint work to achieve the goals of the Scrum Team. Focus helps to avoid doing other things not related to the Sprint Goal.

4. Openness of the Scrum Team and its stakeholders in expressing and facing the facts and truths about all the work and challenges with performing the work, thereby increasing transparency. Openness to collaborate.

5. Respect each other as capable and independent people so that it can provide a trustworthy environment to learn and share.