Pillars

• Transparency
  • In Artifacts
  • Emergent process/work must be visible to those performing and those receiving the work
  • Low transparency can lead to diminishing value, and increased risk
  • Inspection without transparency is misleading and wasteful
  • Presenting the facts as it is. no one has any hidden agenda
    • all people involved are transparent in their day-to-day dealings with others. They all trust each other, & they have the courage to keep each other abreast of good and bad news
• Inspection
  • Of Artifacts in Events
  • Artifacts and the progress toward agreed goals must be inspected frequently and diligently to detect: potentially undesirable variances or problems, improvements
  • Inspection without adaptation is considered pointless
  • can be done for the product, processes, people aspects, practices, and continuous improvements
• Adaptation
  • If any aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits or if the resulting product is unacceptable, or when improvements are detected
  • Adjustments must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation: A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection
  • Adaptation becomes more difficult when the people involved are not empowered or self-managing
  • Is about continuous improvement
  • The ability to adapt based on the results of the inspection
  • Adaptation should eventually relay back on one of the reasons for adopting agile
    • KVAs
    • increased ROI through value- based delivery
    • reduced TCO through enhanced software quality
    • etc