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Scrum values—commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect—are foundational to the Scrum framework. They guide the behavior and decisions of the Scrum team, fostering an environment of trust and collaboration. These values ensure that everyone works together effectively to deliver high-quality products, continuously improving and adapting to change.

Scrum Values form the foundation of the Scrum framework, guiding teams to uphold commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage. These values foster a collaborative environment where individuals work together towards shared goals, embracing transparency, adaptability, and accountability. They serve as guiding principles for behavior and decision-making within Scrum teams.

Scrum values play a pivotal role in the success of project management by fostering an environment of collaboration, commitment, and continuous improvement. Embracing values such as courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness helps teams navigate challenges more effectively and deliver high-quality products. These values not only enhance team dynamics and productivity but also ensure that the project remains aligned with customer needs and organizational goals. By integrating Scrum values into the project management framework, teams can achieve greater efficiency, innovation, and satisfaction for all stakeholders involved.

Is Value-Driven Delivery the Key to Scrum’s Success?

One of the aspects of Scrum that attracts business stakeholders is the delivery of maximum business value in minimum span of time. To achieve this goal, Scrum is relies on the principle of value-driven delivery.

Also, as project is a collaborative enterprise to either create new products or services or to deliver results as defined in the Project Vision Statement. Projects are usually impacted by constraints of time, cost, scope, quality, people and organizational capabilities. To overcome these constraints, value-driven delivery must be the main focus. Scrum facilitates delivery of value very early on in the project and continues to do so throughout the project lifecycle.

One of the key characteristics of any project is the uncertainty of results or outcomes. It is impossible to guarantee project success at completion, irrespective of the size or complexity of a project. Considering this uncertainty of achieving success, it is therefore important to start delivering results as early in the project as possible. This early delivery of results, and thereby value, provides an opportunity for reinvestment and proves the worth of the project to interested business stakeholders.

In order to provide value-driven delivery, it is important to:

1. Understand what adds value to customers and users and to prioritize the high value requirements on the top of the Prioritized Product Backlog.
2. Decrease uncertainty and constantly address risks that can potentially decrease value if they materialize. Also work closely with project business stakeholders showing them product increments at the end of each Sprint, enabling effective management of changes.
3. Create Deliverables based on the priorities determined by producing potentially shippable product increments during each Sprint so that customers start realizing value early on in the project.

The concept of value-driven delivery in Scrum is quite different when compared with the principles of traditional project management models where:

1. Requirements are not prioritized by business value.
2. Changing requirements after project initiation is difficult and can only be done through a time consuming change management process.
3. Value is realized only at the end of the project when the final product or service is delivered.