Scrum Guide Updates Query.
Hi Team,
Need clarification, if the following statement implies that in 2010 scrum guide it was a mandate to use burn down charts.
"
- Scrum does not mandate a burn-down chart to monitor progress. Scrum requires only that:
- Remaining work for a Sprint is summed and known on a daily basis.
- Trending toward completing the work of the Sprint is maintained throughout the Sprint."
Source: https://scrumguides.org/revisions.html
Also can one get previous version of Scrum Guides for comparison.
In the 2010 Scrum Guide, the Release Burndown and Sprint Burndown were indeed Scrum artifacts produced by the Scrum Team. This means that their use was a mandatory part of the Scrum framework.
In the July 2011 version of the Scrum guide, the guidance was changed to saying that "burndown, burnup and other projective practices have been used to forecast progress", that these practices have been seen as useful by some teams, but that they "do not replace the importance of empiricism" and that "only what has happened may be used for forward-looking decision-making".
I'm not sure if these old revisions of the Scrum Guide are available. I've been maintaining copies of most versions that I've seen published for historical comparison and understanding of the evolution of Scrum. It would be nice if Scrum.org published them somewhere or made them available on the Scrum Guides site.
