¶92 Scrumming the Scrum
...you are using Scrum as a process improvement. The ¶7 Scrum Team must have effective ¶36 Sprint Retrospectives and be willing to ¶28 Pop the Happy Bubble. The basic Scrum mechanisms are in place, and you want to leverage Scrum to fulfill its vision of kaizen (see also Kaizen and Kaikaku):
kai-zen ( カイゼン) n. a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, etc. <ORIGIN> Japanese, literally ‘improvement’. New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd ed. [SLJA17]
Also see Toyota Kata. Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results [Rot10] ...
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