2015-10-29

Sprint forecast over commitment

Every team I've ever been on that did Scrum (or ScrumBut) have always used the term sprint commitment when it comes to describing the result of sprint planning. Commitment is however a bad word.

Because commitment means, at least to most people a promise. Meaning that you need to deal with slipped work in some way. How bad is it etc.

A few weeks ago however somebody (I wish I remember who) was talking about sprint forecast instead. And from this day forward I will use the same term. Because it describes exactly what it is about; a forecast of what the team think it can do in the next sprint. It was never a commitment!

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