From the course: Agile Foundations
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Inspect and adapt
- To work well as an Agile team, you have to be adaptable. Adapting to change is built into the very foundation of the Agile manifesto. The developers who wrote the manifesto were already using their own software development methods. Two of the most popular were scrum and extreme programming. That's why a lot of Agile teams use scrum terms and also some terms from extreme programming. One place you'll see this is in Principle 2 of the manifesto. It says that "Agile teams welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage." Embracing change is a core part of extreme programming. It's also important to scrum, but scrum uses slightly different language. Scrum sees itself as an empirical product delivery framework. It encourages teams to inspect and adapt. A scrum team will make changes based on what they learn about the product. Embracing change and inspecting and adapting are really two ways of doing the same…
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