From the course: Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
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Review and adapt your practices
From the course: Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
Review and adapt your practices
- One of the best things about agile is its focus on continuous improvement. It's based on the concept of kaizen, which is a Japanese word for change for the better. This was developed in the '50s as part of the manufacturing environment in Japan. Kaizen demands that the people doing the work frequently examine how they work and make incremental improvements. The expectation is that you can improve the quality of your work by making small adjustments to your processes over time. Agile didn't invent the continuous improvement model. It merely adapted these highly-successful practices. The most common agile practice for this is the agile retrospective that's held at the end of every iteration. In the retrospective, retro for short, the scrum master asks the team, "What went well in this iteration?", "What can be improved in future iterations?", and "What do we want to do differently to improve?" The simplicity of this format provides the team with feedback on what shouldn't change and…
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