Commitments

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Sohrab Salimi

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Scrum artifacts each have a commitment. These are designed to enhance transparency and focus, as well as to reinforce empiricism and the Scrum values for the Scrum Team and their stakeholders.

The commitments are:

For the Product Backlog: The Product Goal
For the Sprint Backlog: The Sprint Goal
For the Product Increment: The Definition of Done

Follow the links to learn more about each commitment in detail and why these commitments are crucial to the successful application of Scrum.

Sohrab Salimi

Scrum Academy GmbH

Sohrab is a long-standing Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and CEO of the Scrum Academy GmbH based in Cologne. He is a trained medical doctor and worked for Bain & Company as a consultant and as a CIO at SE-Consulting, among others, before founding the Scrum Academy. As a consultant and trainer, he has been supporting companies from a wide range of industries for over a decade on topics related to agile transformation, innovation and organizational development.

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