Council staff call the graffiti-abatement team high performing because every member attends every ceremony. What should the Scrum Master / Team Coach treat as the real signal of high performance?

SAFe high-performing teams are self-managing, aligned, and empirically improving; the evidence is outcomes, flow, quality, and team health. Meeting attendance and ceremony compliance can coexist with stalled abatement work and poor collaboration. The Scrum Master / Team Coach rejects attendance theater as the characteristic and coaches toward value delivered and the team's ability to inspect and adapt. Utilization scoring and slide-ready attendance reports measure presence, not performance.