Top Three Scrum Changes You Might Not Know About

Changes in Scrum commitment, grooming, and the team

Do you know that commitment, grooming, or the development team are no longer terms used within The Scrum Guide?

A forecast replaces commitment.

Commitment has been removed from The Scrum Guide in its first revision in 2011 and replaced by a forecast.

The Scrum Teams do not commit to completing the work planned during a Sprint Planning event. The Scrum Team creates a forecast of work it believes will be done, but that forecast will change as more becomes known throughout the Sprint.

The new name reserves the potential for changes during the Sprint, and the company should empower the team to make these changes as long as they still lead to achieving the Sprint Goal.

If the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete, it is a prerogative of The Product Owner to cancel the Sprint.

Commitment led people to believe that The Scrum Team was supposed to lock down the…