A Developer is fairly sure the design the team agreed last week will not scale. The team is halfway through the Sprint, everyone else seems content, and saying so means an uncomfortable conversation and probably rework. Which Scrum value most directly asks them to speak?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 1. Understanding and applying the Scrum framework easy
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The options
Correct Courage
Correct. Courage is the value that covers doing the right thing and working on tough problems, and an unwelcome truth about an agreed design is exactly the tough problem meant.
Not correct Commitment
Wrong here, though closely related. Commitment is about committing to the goals and to supporting each other; it explains why the team would want to hear this, but the value carried by the act of speaking is courage.
Not correct Focus
Wrong, and it is the value most often misused to justify silence. Focus means the primary attention is on the work of the Sprint; it is not a reason to leave a known defect in the design unmentioned.
Not correct Respect
Wrong. Respect means treating each other as capable, independent professionals. Staying quiet to spare colleagues an awkward hour is not respect — it withholds from them something they are perfectly capable of handling.
Why
The five values are commitment, focus, openness, respect and courage. They overlap in practice, so questions like this are answered by asking which value the specific act costs something to live: courage is the one attached to acts with a social price — surfacing bad news, challenging an agreed plan, admitting you are stuck.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Scrum Values
- What it says
- The Scrum Team members have the courage to do the right thing, to work on tough problems.
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