 Hi, I'm Jeff Watts and welcome to another lightbulb talk This lightbulb talk is about the five strum values Yeah, scrum has values not a lot of people know that but it does it has meetings It has artifacts. It has roles. It has rules But for me more important than all of that are the five values that underpin scrum And it's surprising how often you speak to people who've been doing scrum for quite a long time And you're met with really? Values never heard of those I find trying to apply something like a framework without really understanding what the principles that are underpinning it can be quite Frustrating and lead to a certain amount of incongruence. So I thought I'd do a short video to just explain what those five values are The first value is focus Part of the underlying philosophy of scrum I suppose is this idea that by doing less stuff you can get more stuff done One of the biggest problems in a lot of the organizations and the teams that I work with is overburden They've simply got too much stuff going on at the same time whether that's too many projects too many roles too many tasks Obviously that stems from its lean history Reducing the work in progress, but in scrum that also applies at the role level So each individual is expected to focus on one role But one team on one product backlog and to do that role well Giving yourself enough capacity to actually get things done before moving on to the next task leads to more success So focus is our first value. Our second value is around commitment Once we've focused we then commit to getting stuff done But not in the way that everybody often assumes the word commitment to mean It's not about forcing people to make commitments and then holding their feet to the fire to make sure that they actually follow through on that It's about committing to being realistic About being open and transparent Committing to help each other throughout the sprint committing to collaborate with one another committing that we will continuously inspect and adapt The team is expected to make a realistic commitment of sprint planning about what they think they're capable of and then committing to do Whatever they can to try and make that happen But they can't commit to actually making that happen because there are too many things outside of their control Commit to giving the team the space to focus. They're not going to continually interrupt the team and change priorities every day They're going to give the team the chance to deliver on that commitment. Our third value is openness Transparency is absolutely essential if we're looking to inspect and adapt We can't take any action unless we actually know what we're taking action on So being open about the decisions that we've made how we've made those decisions or the priorities are and how we've made them Transparency about our estimates our deliveries the quality that we're doing our definition of done at the end of every sprint We're going to be Transparent about our delivery and ask for feedback on all of that. Our fourth value is respect Respecting different opinions because we're operating in a cross-functional team now and putting all those different experiences and skill sets cultures Beliefs perspectives into one team can cause a little bit of friction as we get used to self-managing And the second aspect is respecting that there are very few people who actually intentionally want to sabotage what we're doing So respecting people's positive intent And our final scrum value is courage a Team stepping up and taking responsibility and making visible what they think they're working on and actually their progress Perhaps on a daily basis, but certainly at the end of a sprint takes courage Asking for feedback on incomplete work where we know we're going to have to do some work to make it better that takes courage Taking on some of the organizational impediments and trying to change the organization takes courage A product owner trying to prioritize across multiple stakeholders and with incomplete information Takes courage All of the stuff that we're going to be doing in an agile team is involving uncertainty anxiety and change So that takes courage. So we respect that So that's a brief introduction to the five scrum values Hopefully that gives you a better idea as to what scrum is all about At the at the philosophical level rather than just a practical mechanical framework level Hope you enjoyed this light bulb talk if you did please like and subscribe And we'll see you next time