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Scrum.org Blog
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Scrum.org Blog is the company blog at scrum.org, writing about business and career. Since 2011, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “What Is ScrumBut?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scrum.org's blog and resources to settle what Scrum itself says, especially the 2011 change from 'commitment' to 'forecast' and the definition of story points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /resources/commitment-vs-forecast11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2018-02-20
- What Is ScrumBut?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-21
- /Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scrum_Guide.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-12
- /resources/scrum-guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-15
- /Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scrum_Guide.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-15
- /resources/what-is-a-product-owner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-05
- /resources/what-is-a-scrum-master2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-16
- /resources/what-definition-done2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-03
- /resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-points-estimating2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-27
- Scrum Guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-15
What Hacker News says?
> > [...] business needs into code. > I think this is where we lose a lot of developers. My experience has been this is a skill set that isn’t as common as you’d hope for I know this is highly unpopular take, but I believe agile, scrum and similar has led the field directly into this direction. Look at this magnificent blog post ( https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/5-worst-agile-mistakes-... ) published recently r…
Comment linking /resources/blog/5-worst-agile-mistakes-ive-made
on “GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic”Submitted Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011) as a story · 109 points
HN discussion"Definition of Done" is a common Agile concept. There's a wealth of documentation on how to define it. Heres one: https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-definition-done
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on “The Art of Finishing”Submitted Stop Building the Wrong Stuff: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns to Avoid as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Maybe we need a word like "forecast" or "prediction". Scrum (The org behind that flavor of agile) actually changed the language used in their guide back in 2011 from developers making a "spring commitment" to making a "spring forecast" for exactly these reasons. https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
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on “Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model”Submitted Why your company doesn’t make real progress although everyone works hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've tried replacing "commitment" with "forecast" in my team for the same reason. Even though it's an official recommendation [1], the management didn't like it. [1] https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/commitment-versus-forec...
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on “Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die”Submitted Never Serve Raw Chicken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI noticed that, too. I think that's mostly coincidence. Velocity is based on story points. Here's a definition of story points as a unit of measure that I like: A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completing requirements. https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-poi... It is generally recommend you n…
Comment linking /resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-points-estimating
on “Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus”Submitted Technical Debt Pattern: Custom Off-The-Shelf as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI realize your experience is correct but the irony is that Scrum itself doesn't require that nothing else comes up during a sprint. https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/expedite-handling-unpla...
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on “How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum”Submitted Scrum Master Misunderstandings – Scrum.org as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> 3) Scrum story points are supposed to reflect end user benefits. Scrum.org states[0] A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completing requirements. [0]: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-poi... According to Jeff Sutherland himself[1], story points are based on team effort and not end-user bene…
Comment linking /resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-points-estimating
on “Scrum is fragile, not Agile”Submitted Evidence-Based Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Sprints have deadlines and a set amount of work... Well, they shouldn't: https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
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on “Hard deadlines are not user-first”Submitted Scrum Isn't a Belief System–It's a Learning System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis sounds a lot like Kanban for Scrum Teams. https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams
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on “Hard deadlines are not user-first”Submitted Org Smells as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat sounds like typical scrum-enthusiast double-speak to me! :D https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum "This Guide contains the definition of Scrum. This definition consists of Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them together." Definitions, Rules, Roles, Artifacts etc. Sounds pretty authoritative to me. If it wasn't authoritative, how would you even know what SCRUM "really" is? You can…
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on “Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)”Submitted When Product Backlog Is a Mess – Scrum.org as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> We would make estimates, and be told they weren't commitments. Yeah, this is ridiculous; Scrum actually changed the term from ‘Commitment’ to ‘Forecast’ back in 2011. But the industry didn’t pay attention to that minor but important change. - https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
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on “Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?”Submitted Two Ways and 25 Dimensions to Compare Agile Scaling Frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't think anything in Scrum dictates iterations must be one week long. https://www.scrum.org/learning-series/what-is-scrum/
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on “Why Scrum is stressing you out”Submitted AI Does Not Change Goodhart or the Folly of Tokenmaxxing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt’s funny because even with capital a Agile / Scrum, in 2011 the term commitment got changed to forecast [1]. But then many companies who are dogmatic about Agile still use estimates as commitments anyway. That makes technical debt really hard to avoid... One solution is to create technical debt tickets in the backlog so people become aware of it. 1. https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
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on “Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)”Submitted Why Handoffs Hurt Software Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're happy to accept the Manifesto in 2001 as the start of agile, then https://www.scrum.org/about under 'Creating Scrum' states "Jeff Sutherland and I had been using Scrum for ten years prior to the meeting at Snowbird where we and others signed the Agile Manifesto"
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on “Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software”Submitted Scrum Masters, Don't Fall for the Abilene Paradox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's worth noting that Scrum does not have sprint commitments: https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
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on “Scrum disempowers developers”Submitted AI as a Scrum Team Member as a story · 1 points
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