Suggested Leadership Actions

Inspect

• Investigate whether your teams’ Scrum practice is consistent enough to form a baseline against which you can measure.

• Review your team’s performance in their sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning. Are they taking advantage of these opportunities to Inspect and Adapt?

• How well are you as a leader supporting your teams in improving, especially when balancing short-term delivery needs against longer-term improvement objectives?

• Map your workflow and look for delays. Assess how much waste you have in your delivery process due to unnecessary delays.

Adapt

• Begin measuring the effect of process changes by using story points.

• Encourage your teams to make consistent use of Inspect and Adapt during the relevant Scrum events.

• Proactively communicate to your teams that retrospectives are important and that you support your teams making changes immediately, in the next sprint, based on findings in their retrospectives.

• Visualize your teams’ work by using Kanban, and look for delays.