Adam started with a diagram and handed out sticky notes with various terms on them. They were related to scrum roles, ceremonies (events), artifacts, and non-scrum terms.

Each person took turns placing a sticky note on the appropriate place on the diagram and explained why they chose that spot. The next person could place their sticky note, or move a note if they thought it was incorrectly placed.

Some things we discussed:

3 scrum roles:

• Product Owner- owns Product Backlog and responsible for ROI
• Scrum Master
• Development Team

non-scrum roles:

• Stakeholders-provide input to the PO
• The Sprint is an event (FKA ceremony). So is sprint planning.
• The Definition of Done is set by the development organization or team. It’s the standard of quality.
• You don’t have to use user stories in Scrum!
• Another event is the daily scrum stand up. It’s the opportunity to inspect and adapt on the sprint goal.
• Acceptance criteria is from the business perspective. The Definition of Done is from the technical perspective.
• The 3 pillars of the empirical process are transparency, adaptation, and inspection. Scrum is built on the empirical process.

Ideas for Action/Next Steps:

• This is a good exercise for established teams to reiterate principles.