Scrum and Empirical Process Control

What does the ‘courage’ value in Scrum refer to ?

‘Courage’ refers to the fact that the Scrum teams should have the courage to take on challenges and the individual people on the team should have the courage to stand up for their project and say ‘no’ to impossible goals because they have the planning tools to show ah 

What does the ‘commitment’ value in Scrum refer to ?

Every person on the team is committed to the project, to the delivering the most valuable product that they can.

What is meant by the term – collective commitment’ ?

Collective Commitment means that every team member is committed to delivering the complete Increment and not the just items that he or she is working on.

How is Scrum related to Empirical process control ?

Scrum is based on Empirical process control in that the decisions, actions, next steps and improvements are made by experience, experiments or observation rather than on theory, pure logic or on detailed upfront planning

Also, just as in Empirical process, Scrum is also based on Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation.

What can you say about Scrum and Empirical approach ?

Scrum follows an evidence-based empirical approach wherein it accepts that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined up front. Instead Scrum focusses on maximizing the team’s ability to deliver quickly, responding to emerging requirements, and adapting to evolving technologies and changes in market conditions.