David Knighton
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

“The Sprint Backlog was seen as commitment, signed with blood.”

Dear god, when will people stop using the word commitment in Scrum when everything is based on empiricism? I cannot count all of the dumb looks I get when I ask how we can call a sprint a commitment if we haven’t executed it yet. Ditto when I ask a business partner if they would like us to deliver a prescribed number of tasks, or actual value.

Search -> Replace All -> “commitment” = “forecast”.

    David Knighton

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