Scrum Values

Respect for people and culture. One of the five core values of Scrum and one of the pillars of the house of SAFe. Do your best... everyone else in the team is doing his / her best. Respect each other's background, experiences, strengths, weaknesses... teams must learn each other's strengths and weaknesses, accept them, and learn how to accommodate them and compensate for them... because the team is going to swim or sink together.

Ants. Yes, ants. Put a barrier on their path and they will figure out what to do (move around it, over it, remove it, etc.) and continue on to their destination. They are so focused on getting to where they are headed. They are good at doing their jobs too. They think winter during summer... they gather food. Lots to learn from ants... focus is one of these. As a team, focus all your efforts and skills on doing the work that you've committed to doing. Do your job...don't worry about anything else. Distractions? Make those transparent... put those in…

This is related to the earlier post, commitment... the team must have the courage to commit... to have that stubbornness to figure out how to meet commitments. The team having grit. The courage to be open... to be vulnerable... to openly admit that help is needed... for a teammate to ask the rest of the team to help him figure out what to do. The courage to experiment. Act ! Then inspect and adapt. Courage to give and expect respect. Courage is one of the five Scrum values. Bring it out, everyday!

The team must be willing to commit to a goal... otherwise, that lack of commitment leads to avoidance of accountability which in turn leads to inattention to results. Results is the name of the game. Scrum is just a way to achieve it. Now... Scrum provides people, the team, all the authority they need to meet their commitments. In turn, the team will do everything in their power to achieve their committed sprint goal. Scrum is the art of the possible... about what the team can actually get done; they commit to what they can actually get done. Team members…