The Fundamental Process
In the spirit of “build the right process and you’ll build the right product,” the most basic process is what the agile folk call “inspect and adapt.” Deming called it plan-do-check-act (PDCA) and later renamed it plan-do-study-act (PDSA) to emphasize the importance of analysis over mere inspection. Christopher Alexander calls it the fundamental process. This is the heart of Scrum, and the cycle of process improvement is Scrum’s heartbeat. The ¶46 Sprint in Scrum is first a cycle of process improvement and second, a cycle of regular delivery.
The early work of Christopher Alexander (the building pattern guy) on patterns had strong links to Japanese culture and some of its philosophical literature. In the same way, ...
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