[taeric]

Funny to see this. I thought getting commitment was one of the soft mechanisms of scrum. An annoying one, because power dynamics are always at play. Still a mechanism, though.

I think I'm supportive of the idea on removing it. Seems the goal is ultimately to find ways in rhetoric and action to align the teams in working to the end goal. Which, often, might require tradeoffs to reach a timely delivery. And timing is a requirement.

[crdoconnor]

It probably made more sense to put it in in the beginning when the process was still being sold to senior managers. Now that scrum is much more embedded, taking out for the reasons given makes more sense.