Last November, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland issued a new and major update to Scrum Guide.
This version has a number of noticeable changes from Scrum 2017, here the most important changes in my opinion:
Less is More
Scrum is a framework, and this is emphasized in this version removing any implementation details and softening prescriptive language. One of the first things you will notice is the removal of Daily Scrum questions.
PO is Part of the Team
The Product Owner is not the new Requirements Engineer or the System Analyst. He or She is part of the team, this is stressed in this version of the guide and consequently, PO shares the responsibilities with developers and the scrum master.
New Concept of Product Goal
Set by the Product Owner, the Product Goal is another manifestation for the idea of Scrum as a framework whose objective is to give the team the focus and let the team figure out the details. Each sprint should bring the team closer to achieving the Product Goal.
Commitments
More transparency into progress through a set of commitments, one for each of the Scrum artifacts. In Scrum 2020 Guide, the Product Backlog has a Product Goal as a commitment, the Sprint Backlog has Sprint Goal as a commitment, and the Product Increment must fulfill its commitment which is the Definition of Done.
Self-Managing Team
Scrum self-organizing teams have the authority to choose who and how to do the work. This version of the Scrum Guide adds choosing “what” to work on from the product backlog each sprint to these authorities.
I have also just finished my translation to Arabic for this new version of the Scrum Guide. You can download it from here and soon it will be published on scrumguides.org
In this translation, with help from a number of interested colleagues, I put extra effort to make the Arabic text readable and understandable as much as possible.
Salam,