A structured comparison of participants' independently recorded views of a goal, user, problem or outcome, used to expose consequential disagreement before delivery choices are fixed.

# Alignment test

This is an editorial synthesis, not a term or method defined by Scrum. The article uses the Scrum Guide only to scope Product Goal and Product Owner accountabilities. Independence matters: participants write before discussion so the first senior voice does not become the only visible answer.

The test does not manufacture consensus. It identifies a disagreement that needs a decision, an assumption that needs research or a constraint that needs to be recorded.