Inspection and adaption

When Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland created Scrum, they founded it on empirical process control theory, which has three pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaption.

Transparency comes in many forms in our Scrum team, mainly through the tenet of making work visible. The Scrum Board plainly shows what our team is working on. There is no hidden work in Scrum; our team members are open and forthcoming about what they are working on when discussing it at the Daily Scrum or the Sprint Review. Even the Product Backlog is available for all to see.

Scrum provides high-bandwidth information regarding our team, our process, and the product on which we're working. At various points, we can inspect the information that we ...

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