The Five Scrum Values

Scrum's success depends on people living five values. Commitment: the Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other. Focus: the team's main attention is on the work of the Sprint, so it makes the best possible progress toward those goals. Openness: the team and its stakeholders are open about the work and the challenges. Respect: members respect each other as capable, independent people, and are respected as such by the people they work with. Courage: members have the courage to do the right thing and to work on tough problems.

The values are not decoration. They give direction to the team's work, actions and behaviour, and they are what makes the three pillars real. Openness is what makes transparency possible; courage is what lets someone raise a problem during an inspection; respect and commitment are what make a self-managing team trustworthy. When the values are lived, the pillars come to life and build trust; when they are ignored, Scrum becomes a set of empty meetings.

Commitment in Scrum is commitment to the goals and to each other — not a promise to deliver every item forecast in Sprint Planning no matter what. The Sprint Backlog is a forecast that the Developers adjust as they learn.

Study focus: the exam may describe a behaviour and ask which value it shows or breaks — for example, hiding bad news breaks openness, a team member speaking up against an unrealistic demand shows courage, and multitasking across several projects undermines focus.