Heart of Scrum

"The heart of Scrum is assessing the condition of activities and empirically determining what to do next." -- Ken Schwaber, Inventor of Scrum (with Jeff Sutherland) Empiricism: Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation. Determination of what to do next arises from what's openly observed and inspected, from experience, training, and common sense (sometimes it is not common at all). We adapt to the situation based on these information...empirically determining what to do next. Example: Demo. The beauty of a demo -- within a sprint/iteration, program increment, or large solution --  is this: it allows one to observe and experience what has been created…