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Inspect and Adapt

At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

—Agile Manifesto

Overview

In chapter 9, ‘Executing the Program Increment,’ we described how Agile Release Trains (ARTs) build and maintain the continuous delivery pipeline to explore, execute, and release value, including the program events and activities that support delivery. Although the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event was briefly described there, this event is such an integral part of SAFe and Lean-Agile success that we’ve devoted this entire chapter to it.

As previously described, the I&A is a significant SAFe event, held at the end of each Program Increment (PI). During this event, the current ...

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