Scrum Pillars: Transparency Inspection Adaptation

We're looking at Scrum piece by piece. Today it's the turn of the SPRINT PILLARS: transparency, inspection and adaptation

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139. Scrum Pillars: Transparency Inspection Adaptation
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We are dissecting Scrum to take a look at it piece by piece. Today it’s the turn of three things that don’t even appear on this picture. Not, that is, until I tilt the picture. They’ve been there the entire time; underpinning, well, everything! It’s time to talk about the Scrum Pillars: Transparency, inspection and adaptation. Scrum Guide ---- Let’s start with a look at the Scrum Guide: “Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism.” What is empiricism The Scrum Guide again: “Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.” “Based on what is known”. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but we humans aren’t great at seeing things as they are. We have a tendency to see things as we think they are…or see things as how would like them to be. In Scrum - indeed in all of Agile - we are not big on research. Nor are we big on long term plans. Nor are we big on documentation. It’s more about building something… and observing the result. Building something… in order to discover… Well, how things are. That’s empiricism again. The Three Pillars ------- Back to Scrum, and back to the Scrum Guide. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. What do the three pillars mean in the context of scrum Transparency ------- For transparency, the Scrum guide provides a couple of examples: A common language referring to the process must be shared by all participants; In other words, the members of the Scrum team should understand the Scrum process, each of the artefacts, each of the events… and have a clear understanding of their own rules and those of their colleagues. Those performing the work and those inspecting the resulting increment must share a common definition of "Done". Inspection and Adaptation ------ Inspection and adaptation go hand in hand in hand. We inspect what has been done - “what is known” - and adapt (change) as necessary. Each one of the Scrum events... Sprint planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective … is underpinned by the three pillars. Given an appropriate level of transparency, each is an opportunity to inspect… and to adapt.

[Developmentthatpays]

We are back with more Scrum goodness, this time looking at the Three Pillars.

[TikiNtundi]

I absolutely love your sly humor sir. Thank you

[Diekenes]

Can I just say, THANK YOU for posting the three pillars in the name of this video. Too many times everyone wants it to be some great secret that you have to dig into. I love the series, and love the cheat sheets. Thanks!

[AjajajaSan]

Hi Gary! I've been watching your videos since 2017 and all of these are very helpful. I'm a Technical Recruiter who is also practicing Agile in my workplace. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and explaining it in a way that's easy to understand. Hope you'll keep making them!

[alee]

Wow, thank you for explaining this! :) Really helpful.

[konradkrzyzewski]

Episode about Definition of Done?? Hell Yeah!!! :)

[lutaseb]

to me, the "main" pillar is transparency! Inspection & adaptation really help to get better about it! be more transparent about the state of the increment, about how things are, in one word: be honest with yourself and the rest of the world ;)