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Commitment and Forecast

Last post 06:04 pm March 4, 2019 by Simon Mayer
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Joost van Poppel
01:34 pm March 4, 2019

Hi,

I've been reading a lot about Sprint commitment lately and found a lot of articles about commitment vs forecast. Also I understand that the updated Scrum guide uses forecast instead of commitment. This is all very confusing for me.

Two questions:

- Can anyone give me the correct definitions of "commitment" and "forecast"?

- Can anyone advise me an article that simply explains what Scrum Teams are expected to commit to?

thanks,

Joost

 

Olivier Ledru
01:58 pm March 4, 2019

Hi Joost,

I think this blog explain very well:

https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast

For your question about the definitions of "Commitment" and "forecast", I'll better leave an answer to a native English speaking agilist.

Simon Mayer
06:04 pm March 4, 2019

This post by Gunther Verheyen about Scrum Values gives a good explanation about how the word "commitment" has been misinterepreted, and explains why the word "forecast" is now used in terms of what a Development Team provides during the Sprint Planning:

https://guntherverheyen.com/2013/05/03/theres-value-in-the-scrum-values/

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