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Using scrum to extract commitments on a sprint is also just waterfall by another name.

• maccard 3y ago
  Waterfall is not the same as having a plan and commiting to delivering part of it
  • pydry 3y ago
    That's exactly waterfall - make a plan up front, commit to it and focus exclusively on delivery. Scrum does that because it considers waterfall on a 2 week cycle to be training wheels for people who have been doing it on 6 month increments and because it considers that "closer" to agile.
• regularfry 3y ago
  Sometimes Scrum does get called "lots of very short waterfalls". It's not entirely wrong, in the current incarnation. [On edit, I see you've made this point below. Yes.] Note that until relatively recently (2020, I think), the Scrum Guide referred not to "commitments" but to "forecasts". That was a much better framing, and I don't know why they changed it.