[theptip]

I read "adhere to the sprint commitment" as being an undesirable aspect of Scrum that the author was complaining about, not something that Scrum is lacking.

It's certainly one of the bad parts of Scrum as commonly interpreted; c.f. http://www.peterkretzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Aski....

(That's why newer docs tend to substitute "commitment" with "forecast", to clarify the Manifesto author's intent).

[cechner]

interesting - I recently heard someone call it a forecast and thought 'man why don't they use that term in scrum?'

Nice to know that they actually do (I havent read up on it in some time, probably should)