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So how do you capture this all-important Ubiquitous Language? Here are some ways that work as experimentation leads to advancement: • Draw pictures of the physical and conceptual domain and label them with names and actions.
Create a glossary of terms with simple definitions. List alternative terms, including the ones that show promise and the ones that didn’t work, and why.
Coffee. Use that Ubiquitous Language: “Hi, Sally, I got you a tall half-skinny half-one-percent extra-hot split-quad-shot latte with whip. Do you have a few minutes to talk about . . . ?” Learn to use the Ubiquitous Language of C-Level management: “. . . profits . . . revenues . . . competitive edge . . . market domination.” Seriously. Hockey tickets.
The onus is entirely on the client to know how to correctly commit the backlog item to a sprint.
Do the critical path and timeline allow for any overhead required for tactical investment?
In fact, they were really using what amounted to DDD-Lite, employing the tactical patterns mostly for a technical payoff.

