My view on ALL the changes in LeSS Scrum
2020 Scrum Guide vs LeSS Scrum
Last week I wrote about LeSS divorcing from Scrum. It caused quite a stir on LinkedIn, including an elaborate response from one of the founders of LeSS, Bas Vodde.
The comments to my post boil down to three different observation themes:
- LeSS had followed a different version of Scrum for a long time, even before the Scrum Guide existed. Now they made it official.
- This is not helpful in the quest to help organizations be more effective using Agile approaches.
- The changes are superficial and hardly worth it.
I tend to agree that these Agile infights do not help. They confuse people, especially when the same name is used for different things.
Today I will give my opinion on the changes. I will list all of them and then add my viewpoints. You may wonder why I do this. I think it matters. It matters to trainers who need to understand what they teach their trainees. It matters to coaches who help organizations adopting Scrum or LeSS. Perhaps trainers and coaches may wish to ignore the differences. But I believe they can only do this well as a conscious decision, knowing WHAT they ignore.
With this explanation of why I have a 2nd article on the topic, let’s dive into it!
