What should Scrum look like in 2019?

 

This will be a short blog post, but one that I think is an important topic to think about. A lot of people make New Year resolutions. Perhaps it's to lose weight, get healthy, travel to some exotic destination, or achieve some career goal.

But what are the New Year resolutions for Scrum? How can 2019 influence Scrum's progression as the dominant Agile framework in the world? We can take a look at some of the comments Scrum professionals made during 2018 in this very blog to get an idea of where Scrum may be heading in 2019:

Ken Schwaber
"To deal with greater complexity, we may develop infrastructures that describe how to manage risks and better tolerate R&D. Scrum will be right in the middle as meaningful possibilities emerge."

Mike Cohn
"I hope we see an end to methodology wars; Scrum vs. Kanban, SAFe vs. LeSS, Disciplined Agile, Enterprise Agile and every other scaling framework. Instead of arguing about methodologies, we need to focus more on agile as a large set of practices, some of which work well in combination."

Dave West
"I expect to see Scrum surrounded with more and more amazing practices and technology."

Mike Griffiths
"It would be great if Scrum and all the agile approaches were just wrapped into a better commonly accepted framework for collaborative development. Or replaced completely by something better."

...and our very own

Kiron Bondale
"Agile purity should focus on values & principles - those are too often lost when attempting to be purist about methods and frameworks."

Rami Kaibni
"If Scrum is to survive in industries other than software, then it should be flexible so we need to be realistic about this."

Sante Vergini
"I call on all Scrum advocates to go beyond their certifications, beyond the clock-on and clock-off usage of Scrum at work, to embrace all the richness that Scrum has to offer, and radiate it throughout the world."

What do you think? What New Year resolutions should Scrum make to move it to the next level?
 

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