inspect and adapt – Lean Agile Guru

Sep

16

2020

Start With The End In Mind

inspect and adapt, pi planning, Platinum

Day 169. With Pi Planning, one of the outputs is a set of PI Objectives for each team on the Agile Release Train; the team will try their best to achieve both committed and uncommitted PI Objectives. They visualize the ‘End’... the desired outcome ... which is embodied by the PI Objective. What most people don’t do is this: Continue reading

Jun

03

2019

By Clarence Galapon

When is Inspect and Adapt?

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June 2, 2019: It's 12:00 Sunday afternoon... people are already gathering in front of the Knight Theater for the 1:00 PM event: the Ballet Performance -- 'Spring Performance' -- by the students of Charlotte Ballet. My family and I are one of them... our daughter is one of the performing students. We are all excited...and the weather is pleasantly warm and sunny... perfect weather! The Performance started promptly at 1:00 PM. My daughter's group was up first... we watched with excitement; and what a performance they did! The execution of the movements. to me, was perfect; choreography was perfect. We…

Mar

24

2019

By Clarence Galapon

On-track or Off-Track? Part II

Cadence, Demo, empiricism, inspect and adapt, OKR and CFR, Positive Intent, Product Owner, Releasability, Retrospective, roadmap, Show and tell, Show me the money, small batches, Sprint Review

One might ask the following: "Why bother checking? We "know" that we are on track already!" "Can we just keep working and deliver the work when we are done?" "Can we just tell you what tasks we did and have completed?" "May we provide you a PowerPoint deck, screenshots, metric, list of lessons learned from our Spikes, some documentation and toll gate decks?" Good questions! Think about those questions for a few minutes. The thing is, a few errors accumulated everyday/ every sprint/iteration... unchecked... for a whole program increment (PI) spells disaster. Does it make sense to show the incremental…

Mar

23

2019

By Clarence Galapon

On-track or Off-track?

Check, inspect and adapt, Iteration, On-Track or Off-Track, Sprint

The Sprint/Iteration is at its end. What's the next (best) thing to do? Does it make sense to check to see if your team is on-track or off-track...and re-calibrate if need be? To be continued... October 15, 2022: My new book, "SAFe Is Like ...", is now available on Amazon. What our students think about the Lean Agile Guru ("Author of SAFe is Like ...") -- click here You will get a FREE SIGNED COPY if/when you register, pay, and complete a class by the Lean Agile Guru.

Mar

22

2019

By Clarence Galapon

What is the Heart of Scrum?

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"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…

Sep

25

2018

By Clarence Galapon

Drive Relentless Improvement via ‘Inspect and Adapt’

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Agile is based on empirical process control -- things are verifiable by observation or experimentation; transparency, Inspection and adaptation are the 3 pillars of empiricism. Application: the famous Plan, Do, Check, Adjust/Adapt (PDCA) is a learning cycle...things are inspected and adaptation follows based on what has been learned and observed. This cycle occurs at every level be it team level, program level, or solution level... hence the mantra 'Inspect and Adapt' for relentless and continuous improvement. At the program Level of SAFe, there is a program event called 'Inspect and Adapt (I&A)'. No surprise there. The purpose of which is…