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Who Should Read This
Anyone who:
- Still treats a Sprint Backlog like a blood oath.
- Thinks “commitment” means “guaranteed delivery at any cost.”
- Is afflicted by burndown-worship.
- Clings to command-and-control but insists “we’re agile now.”
Influenced Mental Models
Resonating Quotes
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- “A Sprint Backlog is complex enough that uncertainty is always present, and common sense tells us that we shouldn’t promise what we are not sure to be able to deliver.”
—Scrum.org via Commitment vs. Forecast A Subtle but Important Change to Scrum
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- “Either way, whether the commitment concept is abused by the business people or by the developers themselves, the usual victim is product quality.”
—Scrum.org via Commitment vs. Forecast A Subtle but Important Change to Scrum
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- “In Scrum, the Development Team is now asked to forecast the specific work that can be done in a Sprint, rather than ‘commit’ to it. This allows teams to focus on the things that matter in professional software development like quality, value, and continuous improvement, rather than satisfying an arbitrary obligation.”
—Scrum.org via Commitment vs. Forecast A Subtle but Important Change to Scrum