True or False: The Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable increment every Sprint.

The 2020 Scrum Guide explicitly states, "The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint." This is a fundamental principle of the framework. The Scrum Team, consisting of the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Developers, is a cohesive, self-managing unit. Their collective accountability ensures a shared focus on delivering a usable and potentially releasable product enhancement during each Sprint. This outcome, the Increment, is the primary measure of progress and a concrete step toward achieving the Product Goal.

B. False: This is incorrect. The Scrum Guide, the definitive source for Scrum, unambiguously assigns this accountability to the Scrum Team as a whole. Denying this statement contradicts a core tenet of the framework.

1. Schwaber, K., & Sutherland, J. (2020). The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org. Page 5, "The Scrum Team" section, Paragraph 1.

2. Schwaber, K., & Sutherland, J. (2020). The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org. Page 10, "Artifacts: Increment" section, Paragraph 1.

3. Hayes, W. (2022, August 2). The Scrum Team: Who Does What? Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Insights. Retrieved from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/the-scrum-team-who-does-what/. The article reiterates, "The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint."