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If the 2020 Scrum Guide is a guide, the Expansion Pack is the Field Manual. It should change how serious practitioners think, teach, and practice Scrum in complex organizations where uncertainty demands discovery, not just delivery. Accountabilities Get Depth. Still 3 accountabilities: 1) PO 2) SM 3) Developers But the Expansion Pack refers to Developers as Product Developers - emphasizing their responsibility for creating real product increments, not just completing tasks. Reintroduces "roles" as relationship types that influence outcomes: -Stakeholders: Clearly defined -Supporters: Shape the environment -AI: An increasingly capable (but unaccountable) contributor You still teach the 3 accountabilities. But you'll coach in a broader, messier, more realistic landscape. Events Stay the Same. Agendas Get Smarter. Sprint Planning breaks into Why, What, and How - with strategy, value sequencing, and trade-offs front and center. Daily Scrums become about plan adaptation, not status updates. Reviews focus on evidence and result feedback, not demos. Retros expand beyond process improvement - tackling self-management, safety, and system-level dysfunction. Artifacts Evolve. Commitments Mature. Still 3 artifacts: 1) Product Backlog 2) Sprint Backlog 3) Increment And 3 commitments: 1) Product Goal 2) Sprint Goal 3) Definition of Done But "Done" gets split: Output Done = Technical quality Outcome Done = Proof of value Backlog Items become hypotheses. Increments trigger learning. Each increment becomes an opportunity to validate or disprove assumptions. Refinement shifts from prepping work to framing problems, surfacing assumptions, and setting up outcome measurement. Teams do research, clarify intent, and negotiate tradeoffs. Sizing is explicitly the Developers' responsibly. The backlog becomes less like a fixed roadmap, more like dynamic bets. If discovery invalidates direction, the backlog can (should) be replaced. The metrics conversation shifts from points and velocity (never part of Scrum) to evaluating whether work produced actual outcomes. Velocity and burndown charts aren't mentioned in the Expansion Pack - not forbidden, but not included. Instead of "Did we complete commitments?", ask "Did the increment advance the product toward its goals?" Measurement focuses on learning - value delivered, assumptions validated, and signals of real user behavior. In essence, Scrum shifts from delivery to discovery - without abandoning professionalism. SMs Step Up. Or Step Aside. The Expansion Pack resets SM expectations: -Change agents -Interference shields -Complexity navigators -System challengers They're accountable for effectiveness, not event logistics. Situational leadership, not servant leadership. The SM role isn’t entry-level anymore. Now it operates at the systems level. Final Thought Agile tourists won't need it, but if you're serious about succeeding with Scrum in complex organizations, you won't work without it.