On November 18 2020, a new version of the Scrum Guide has been released. This article aims to inform people in less than 2 minutes what has changed.
The 2020 Scrum Guide revision:
- Does not change Scrum. You do not need to change the way you work.
- Changes and omissions are a shift in nuance and result from making the guide more simple and concise.
- Better reflects the reality of Scrum implementations.
- Offers more freedom for contextual implementation variances by being less prescriptive.
- Uses simpler language for a wider audience without referencing to IT work.
- Brings Scrum back to being a minimally sufficient framework.
- Included the possible uses of Scrum in the guide’s introduction.
- Makes one Scrum Team focus on the same objective.
- Refers to accountabilities rather than roles in the Scrum Team.
- Removed the Development Team in favour of Developers.
- Abandoned the concept of “servant leadership” for Scrum Masters.
- Introduces the Product Goal to focus the Scrum Team on a larger objective.
- Provides Commitments as an identity for the Sprint Goal and Definition of Done.
- Promotes self-management over self-organization.
- Removed the 10% capacity claim for refinement activities.
- Adds a third Sprint Planning topic “Why”, referring to the Sprint Goal.
- Removed all references to estimates and requirements.
- No longer describes monitoring progress towards goals in a separate section.
- No longer prescribes using the three questions in the Daily Scrum.
- No longer details the elements of the Sprint Review.
- Moves the decision to release the Increment to the whole Scrum Team rather than the Product Owner.
- No longer describes detailed outcomes as the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective.
- Dropped the obligation to have improvements from the Retrospective implemented in the next Sprint.
- Puts less emphasis on cancelling a Sprint by removing the separate section for it.
Read the full guide here: https://www.scrumguides.org/
Scrum is still Scrum.
Scrum on!
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