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Five Core Values of a Scrum Team

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The Five Core Values of a Scrum Team

There are five Scrum values that all project team members, including the project manager (Scrum Master), strive to adhere to on a Scrum project.

Core Value 1 – Commitment

Each team member commits to the team, to each other, and to achieving the goal of each sprint.

Core Value 2 – Focus

The team focuses on the task at hand (avoiding the dangers of multi-tasking) and on the goals of the sprint.

Core Value 3 – Openness

The team is open and transparent – they share information freely and ask for help when they need it.

Core Value 4 – Respect

The team respects each other as capable, independent people.

Core Value 5 – Courage

The team has the courage to do the right thing, work through tough problems, ask for help if needed or say when they don’t know.

The Core Values of a Scrum Team

These core values of Scrum help hold a team together and form a contract (like a Team Charter) that creates a solid foundation as you work together towards your goals.

– David McLachlan

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Seven Steps to Leading a Scrum Project

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Seven Steps to Leading a Scrum Project

There are seven steps to leading a Scrum Project.

These are extremely useful to know if you are working on or within a project using Agile or Scrum.

Step 1

The product owner (representing the customer or end user) creates a prioritised list of everything the project might deliver.

This list is called the prioritised product backlog.

Step 2

The team and the Product Owner have a sprint planning meeting. The team decides how much work it can take on in the next sprint.

The team pulls requirements from the prioritized product backlog that it can achieve in the sprint. This work becomes the sprint backlog.

Step 3

The team decides who will do what and creates the task cards in the sprint backlog for the current sprint.

The team will meet each day for a 15-minute meeting, called the daily scrum (also called a stand-up), to share progress updates.

Step 4

The project manager, called the Scrum Master, helps keep the team working toward the sprint goal.

They remove blockers, bring people in to the whole team approach, and facilitate progress.

Step 5

A sprint review happens at the end of each sprint to demonstrate what the team has accomplished to the product owner.

Step 6

After the sprint review the team participates in a sprint retrospective to discuss what did or did not work in the last sprint.

This gives the Scrum Master and the team an opportunity to adjust the processes and work for the next sprint.

Step 7 

The whole process repeats itself by the project team selecting the next chunk of prioritized requirements from the backlog and getting to work in the next sprint.

Implementing Scrum

Implementing Scrum in an organization can be tricky, especially if no one in the organisation or team have done it before.

Show the value of Scrum through the results you get by using it, and more and more people will be interested in adopting the Scrum approach.

– David McLachlan

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