In July a new update was provided to the Scrum Guide by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. There are a few adjustments that are really nice, for example project grooming was added.
One quote from the guide
The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to
Scrum’s success and usage.
Language was added to emphasize that Scrum is an all or nothing proposition. You either do all the practices, or you’re not doing Scrum. I have to agree on it, after visiting a Scrum training by Jeff Sutherland. Before the training it was my believe that with knowledge from the past and by trial and error the framework was build. Instead due to a lot of studies, whitepapers and other resources it was how the framework was initially introduced at OOPSLA’95. During the two day course, Jeff Sutherland took little over half a day to emphasize this. Also by providing lots of examples on how Scrum succeeded and how we should implement and use Scrum.
I’m a believer and want and will to advocate Scrum wherever I come and to whomever may ask. 