Scrum values and roles Flashcards
Which are the 5 scrum values?
Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, Opennes
How can be commitment misunderstood?
Committing to something that you don’t understand because you are told to by your boss instead of committing yourself to the team and Sprint Goal.
How can be FOCUS misunderstood?
Focusing on keeping the customer happy instead of being focused on the Sprint and its goal.
How can be OPENNESS misunderstood?
Telling everyone everything about all your work instead of highlighting when you have challenges and problems that are stopping you from success.
How can be RESPECT misunderstood?
Thinking you are helping the team by being a hero instead of helping people to learn the things that you are good at and not judging the things that others aren’t good at.
How can be COURAGE misunderstood?
Even after the decision has been made continuing to push back instead of being transparent, but willing to change even if that means accepting that you are wrong, or that your opinion is not the direction that the team is going.
Do values need to be visible?
Values like anything in Scrum need to be both visible and inspected and adapted on.
Give five ideas to make values more present in the team.
- Put the values on a wall and have each team member write up how they are going to demonstrate the value in their working day.
- Add a ‘values moment’ to your retrospective. This gives everyone an opportunity to inspect and adapt on their values.
- Introduce a ‘values’ prize. Not a serious prize, but a fun prize that sometimes can be delivered to two people or the whole team when a value has been demonstrated and everyone is aware of it.
- The ‘whoops we dropped the value’ prize provides a way of demonstrating courage, but also highlighting when we missed a value. Of course, this prize could end up being a very negative thing so it should always be delivered in a fun way without negative implications.
- Getting external managers or stakeholders to demonstrate to the team a value and what it means to them.
Which six principles could support the scrum values?
Self-organization
Done means done
Empowered Product Owners
Servant-leader Scrum Masters
Scrum Team ownership for adaption
The delivery of business valueWhat is the retro good for? Which scrum value is mainly supported?
The retro gives the possibility to inspect and adapt.
Commitment: if retro is done, it means team commits to (inspect, adapt and thus) improve itself.
If problems requiring external support (of mgmt) are not addressed and solved, out of “inspect and adapt”, the team goes to “inspect and complain”.
Commiment also means, that team and stakeholder commit to have a direct conversation about the business value.
What is the sprint review good for and which scrum value does it mainly support?
During the review the team puts the sprint result uder spotlight. Ideally, honest and respectful feedback is provided by customer. The team must have the courage to disappoint or upset stakeholders. If the review is set up for success, it becoms a sprint report, where team takes credit for working hard and not for generating business value. Such review meetings are boding for stakeholders and they won’t attend anymore after awhile.
What is the daily good for, and which scrum value does it support?
The daily is the sprint’s heartbeat and is good to inspect current progress and tune focus towards the sprint goal.
It’s important to be disciplined about it and have it every day at the same time. If scrum master drives it, it becomes a rapid fire status reporting, which results in ppl. only focusing for the few seconds when they are talking.
Why is a problem if scrum master is a manager reporting to higher managers and is held accountable for the team progress?
So even if the Scrum Master was liked by the team and if behind closed doors the Scrum Master was reasonably good at being a servantleader instead of a manager, the team closed up and put on a good face for the organization.
What is the role of a scrum master - from external perspective?
The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.
The role of SM supports the openness inside the company.
Why is respect so important for a product owner?
If the product owner is only the stewart of upper management, he may not make decisions and communicate answers to questions timely, without having to discuss is with his upper bosses. In this case, after a while, the team doesn’t even bother to ask and looses respect for product owner as it perceives that the product owner doesn’t have respect from the organization.
