The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

The five core values of Scrum

The Scrum values are important because they transform the way teams work and create collaboration opportunities between business stakeholders and teams, ultimately replacing hostility with trust. Any company or team can implement sprints, backlogs, and burndown charts (that's the easy part), but a company or team that embodies and lives the values will excel.

Scrum value	Antithesis
Commitment	A manager committing on behalf of others
Focus	Suboptimization
Openness	Secrecy
Respect	Position, power, and control
Courage	Caution and contracts

Scrum values are interrelated. For example, when a team commits to a sprint, everyone else outside the team should respect them to get the work done. The team ...