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What’s new in the Scrum Guide 2020?
In a nutshell, the Scrum Guide has been completely rewritten. I find very few sentences that remained the same. Now it’s a 14-pager, so it has been substantially shortened from 19 pages.
The “old” Scrum Guide was written in November 2017 and exactly 3 years after that the new version is released.
I won’t mention all the sections where changes took place, but only the ones where I notice the most changes.
In this article I describe my own view on what has been changed. It may or may not be correct from the authors’ perspective. If you think differently, I welcome any discussion in comments!
Purpose of the Scrum Guide
The new Scrum Guide now aims to be used in not only IT area but goes beyond that, to other domains. Authors mention though that they will continue using the notion “developers” for simplicity.
Scrum Definition
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland added lean thinking to the scrum definition. Scrum is based not only on the empiricism, but now also on the “lean thinking”. Waste reduction is now important to the implementation of scrum. This makes lean and agile even more interrelated. I remember the diagram used by the scrum.org lecturer on my 2-day scrum course where lean was put completely separate from agile, which in its…
