The principles of openness and transparency include being able to be truthful about ways that you are struggling. A Team Member must share their struggles with their Scrum Team and […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Volunteer For a New Task as Soon as I Complete a Task
Every Scrum Team Member should be working on tasks in the Sprint Backlog. Generally speaking, this should be one task at a time with little or no work done on […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Do Whatever It Takes to Reach Each Sprint Goal
A Team Member is defined by their commitment to the goal(s) of the Scrum Team. If a person is not personally committed, they are not part of the team. Commitment […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Actively Seek to Help My Team Mates
A Scrum Team Member is aware of the work that other Team Members are doing, notices if others are struggling with their tasks, and if so, offers to help them. […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Can Quickly Describe My Product’s High-Level Architecture
All Scrum Team Members, including the Scrum Master and Product Owner, should understand the high-level technical aspects of the product that is being built (often described as the architecture of […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Can Quickly Describe My Product’s High-Level Purpose
All Scrum Team Members, including the Scrum Master and Product Owner, should understand the high-level business aspects of the product that is being built. As well, that understanding should be […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Am a Full-Time Member of That Team
Scrum is team-focused. Fixation on optimum (individual people) resource utilization is a major obstacles for effective Scrum implementation. Doing Scrum right and deriving the benefits of team-focus that it has […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Work With Only One Scrum Team
All Scrum Team Members must be committed 100% to the Sprint Goal of their team. If people are allocated to more than one team, then they are not able to […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I am Truthful About the Quality of my Product
Scrum relies on the truthfulness of Team Members to allow for transparency about the internal quality of the product. Internal quality is primarily related to the technical aspects of the […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Use Scrum as a Tool for Product Development
Scrum is an Agile process framework that is optimized for product development. The rules of Scrum are fine-tuned after decades of use to help product development teams become hyper-productive and […]