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A significant revision of the official Scrum Guide 2020 was released this month (here). Here are my thoughts when comparing it to the previous 2017 version. Overall Thoughts The Scrum Guide is even more streamlined now. The length of the artifact has been reduced from 19 to 14 pages. Kudos to the authors, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, for their consistent emphasis on short [...]

Agile Documentation - Just Shoot Me Now The year was 2007. A longtime friend of mine called and said she wanted to do lunch. She had some “exciting news”. At lunch, she sat down and immediately let me know that her company had finally decided to “go Agile”. My response: “Great! What do you think that means?” She contemplated my open question for 20 [...]