One way I can tell if a Scrum team is really a scrum team, is if they live up to the five values of Sc rum. The Scum framework is easy to learn, but living by the values day in and day out often requires changing a lot of ways that we've always worked. During this lesson, we'll go over the Five Values of Scrum, and I'll give you some practical tips for implementing them into your organization. The five values of Scrum are focus, openness, respect, courage, and commitment. I always find that using an acronym is an easy way to remember things. The acronym, FORCC, force, can help you remember the five value of scrum. Of course, you don't want to force your team into learning these values, but thinking about them as a powerful force in your scrumb practice may be a good way keep them top of mind. May the force be with you. Let's begin with our first Scrum value, focus. It's important to stay focused on the product and the value you are trying to deliver. One way to do that is by eliminating or reducing competing priorities. If we have too many competing priority, we start a lot of things, but never finish anything. And if we never finished anything, We don't deliver any value to our customers. One afternoon, my goal was to write the scripts for these videos. I set aside four hours of writing time from 1pm to 5pm. My goal, after all, was focus and produce something of value. At 103, I checked my email. I didn't want to delay my responses to clients, so I replied to four emails. That took until 113. Then I went back to writing my next script. At 120, my wife texted me about, what should we have for dinner tonight? I spent five minutes thinking about it and another minute replying, let's go out for Mexican food. And I spend the next six minutes on Google trying to find a good Mexican restaurant we hadn't been to before. In just the first hour, I spent 21 minutes on activities that had nothing to do with the goal I was working toward. The teams that get the greatest benefit from Scrum are the ones that can minimize distractions and maximize focus. Having a good Scrim master on your team is vital in helping the team focus on its work and maximizing value. The second scrum value is openness. Be open to new ideas and to ideas of others. Don't just settle for how things have always been done. A truly agile team displays innovative thinking. A helpful tip for openness and encouraging innovative thinking on your team is to use the phrase, yes and, when you're discussing a new idea. By changing your language from the typical yes but reply to yes, and you encourage team members to share new ideas. and remove the fear that their ideas will be shut down. So next time you're working with your team and want to encourage the Scrum value of openness, teach them the yes and technique. The third value in Scrum is respect. A good Scum team respects each other's ideas and opinions. Without respect, team members close down. They lose openness. And without openness, the team plays it safe and fails to innovate. Just like in a family, good scum teams disagree and argue. But when they disagree, they argue respectfully. Remember I mentioned looking for a new Mexican restaurant to try? What I didn't tell you earlier is that my wife and I have different criteria in choosing Mexican restaurants. I live for fajitas, so food is my number one concern. For my life, it's all about the guacamole. Well, and the tequila selection. So even though we disagree on what makes a great Mexican Restaurant, we do so respectfully. As a member on a Scrum team, make sure you are respectful to your teammates, even when you disagree with them. The fourth value in Scrum is courage. Some of the most successful companies today got there by having the courage to look at things from a new perspective and by not being afraid of failure. Netflix reinvented the way we watch movies, first by mailing DVDs and then with streaming, while Blockbuster continued with its retail model. Amazon was not the first company to sell books on wine, but they saw it would be the future. Borders and Barnes & Noble were bigger at the time when Amazon started out, But they did not have the courage to jeopardize their brick and mortar models. Scrum teams need the encourage to step out of the way they have always worked and to innovate. Scrum Masters and product owners need to foster courage. By allowing teams to fail and learn from their mistakes, we can give them the courage that they need improve. The fifth value in Scrum is commitment. The team makes commitments to each other. Everyone on the team is accountable for the commitments they've made. I'm going to emphasize the words each-other here. In traditional project management, commitments were made to the project manager, the department manager or the business owner, or someone else with a higher rank. The commitments were individually made. Hey, Johnny, I need that TPS report done tomorrow. And Johnny would say, yes, boss. I'm on it. In Scrum, the team decides what they will work on, and then each person commits to the rest of the Team that they'll do what the've said. Now that you've learned the five values of Scum, print our poster showing the values and hang it near your workspace. By not only knowing but living the Five Values of Scrum you're on your way to becoming an outstanding team.