Inspect and Adapt

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Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can’t do kaizen. So change something!

Taiichi Ohno

The Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop is a significant event, held at the end of each Program Increment (PI), in which the current state of the Solution is demonstrated and evaluated by the train. Teams then reflect and identify improvement backlog items via a structured, problem-solving workshop.

One statement from the Agile Manifesto summarizes how important the philosophy of continuous improvement is to the SAFe Lean-Agile approach: “At regular intervals, the team reflects ...

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