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3 key ingredients for success of Agile

For a team to be successful  at using Agile, following three things are key ingredients Transparency Inspection Adaptation Transparency... All things within the Scrum team should be open and visible. Every task and story should be visible not only to Scrum team but also to people outside the team. Kanban board is one example which can be used to show the team progress to everyone. Openness should be highly encouraged with the team. Openness gives the team the courage to highlight any potential issues.Another example is a common definition of 'Done' which is accepted by those performing the work and those accepting the working product. Inspection... A team should be able to inspect all scrum artefacts to keep a check on what is working and what is not. Inspection should be performed at regular intervals but not so often that it gets in the way of actual work to accomplish the goal. Ideally inspection should be performed by an external inspector. A good example o