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Update to the Scrum Guide on the 25th Anniversary of the Scrum Framework

Summarises key changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide, including simplified language, self-managing teams, and new commitments for goals, backlog, and definition of done.

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It has been 25 years since Scrum was first created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and it has gone through many revisions. The last major revision was in 2017 and this update represents a simplification for 2020.

The 2020 Scrum Guide

The 2017 Scrum Guide

New updates include simplified language, less prescriptive and emphasis on the Scrum Team and its need to be self-managing

It’s very clear that Scrum has not changed! Ken & Jeff have just found better ways to describe Scrum to simplify the story as well as reduce the cognitive load of interpreting it.

Update to the Scrum Guide on the 25th Anniversary of the Scrum Framework

There are lots of awesome changes so let’s see if I can highlight the things I noticed the most:

I hope that that get as much from this new revision of the Scrum Guide as I have.

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