Scrum Guide Update – Scrum’s Five Values
You might not have noticed, but The Scrum Guide was updated recently (July 2016) for the first time in three years. The changes aren’t big in terms of word count, but they are significant. So I decided I needed to update my own description (1, 2) of the Guide’s evolution.
Cumulative Flow Diagrams
Let’s deal with the smallest change first. Cumulative Flow diagrams (CFDs) have been added to the list of example ‘information radiators’ that a Scrum team might use to track its progress towards its Sprint Goal. CFDs are associated popularly with Kanban – though I think they started life in Feature Driven Development – so it might be a bit of a surprise to some to see them mentioned alongside burndown charts and task boards. Don’t worry though, it is just that – a mention. You don’t have to use any specific charts or diagrams to use Scrum, so there’s nothing fundamental being indicated here.
Scrum Values
The big change is a paragraph that reintroduces the five values of Scrum. They’ve been around since 2002 at least when they were described in a book by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (3). They’ve never really gone away. Although they have not previously been mentioned in The Scrum Guide they have always been included in the curriculum for the Scrum Alliance’s Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses, for example.
Read more at http://blog.learningtree.com/uk/scrum-guide-update-5-values-scrum/
