Domain 1 of 5

Product Value and Evidence-Based Management

The four Key Value Areas, the goal structure that turns a strategic ambition into work a Scrum Team can start, and the difference between measuring output and establishing value.

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Concepts in this domain
01Evidence-Based ManagementScrum.org's framework for measuring value, built on four Key Value Areas and a goal structure that turns strategy into a sequence of experiments.02Measuring valueValue is established by evidence rather than assertion, and the Increment is what makes it inspectable.03Product economicsThe vocabulary a product owner needs to argue about value in the terms the business already uses. Cost of delay, sunk cost, opportunity cost, total cost of ownership and lifetime value.04Outcome and outputOutput is what the team produced. Outcome is what changed for someone because of it. A product owner is accountable for the second and is usually measured on the first.05Product discovery and validating assumptionsEvery backlog item carries an assumption that someone wants it. Discovery finds the assumptions, validation buys evidence, and the choice of technique is a trade between cost and quality of learning.
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A colleague preparing for the assessment says the four Key Value Areas are defined in the Scrum Guide. How should this be corrected?

  • AThey appear in the Scrum Guide under the Product Owner accountability.
  • BThey are Scrum.org material published separately from the Scrum Guide, which deliberately does not say how value should be measured.
  • CThey replaced the Scrum Values in the 2020 revision of the Guide.
  • DThey are part of the Nexus framework rather than of Scrum.
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