SCRUM GUIDE 2020 Release Summary

SCRUM GUIDE 2020 Release Summary

Here is what's changed and new in SCRUM Guide 2020

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Significant changes:

People

• “Roles” no longer used as a term: now accountability designations rather than “roles”.
• No more Development Team: now just one team including “Developers” plus Product Owner and Scrum Master.
• Beyond “self-organising”: the Scrum Team is “self-managing” rather than “self-organising”.
• Beefed-up Scrum Master role: Scrum Master explicitly a “true leader” with an explicit overall accountability for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness.

Events

• “Why” topic added to Sprint Planning: Sprint Planning has 3 topics rather than 2 with the addition of Topic 1: Why focused on agreeing on a Sprint Goal.
• Daily Scrum questions removed: the What did I do yesterday / today / impediment questions no longer appear.

Artefacts

• “Lean thinking” added as a foundation.
• Each artefact has a “commitment”: Product Goal for Product Backlog, Sprint Goal for Sprint Backlog and Definition of Done for Increment.
• “Product Goal” commitment added: commitment is added. “Product” is explicitly defined: as a vehicle to deliver value.
• Multiple increments during a Sprint: increments come into being as Product Backlog items reach Done.
• Only Done Product Backlog items show in Sprint Review: whilst previously somewhat implicit, this is now explicit.
• Product Backlog items not Done return to the Product Backlog: now also explicit.
• Sprint Review not a gate to releasing value: explicitly debunks the misinterpretation that releasing must be coupled with Sprint Boundaries.

Minor changes

• Multiple Scrum Teams focused on the same product now should share the same Product Owner.
• Scrum is founded on “empiricism” rather than “empirical process control theory”.
• It is explicit that the whole Scrum Team collaborates on the Sprint Goal. Sustainable pace in Sprints now explicit.
• Sprint Backlog contains “work items” rather than simply plan comprising “work”.