What are the essential pillars of Scrum?

Introduction:
Scrum is known to be working on three important and major pillars. These pillars are the ones to uphold every implementation and empirical process. Without these three pillars, no Scrum master, or stakeholder or even the team members can work properly. So let us take a look at what these three pillars are. How they do what they do and other things related to it.
The three pillars of Scrum:
Scrum has three pillars which are as follows.

• Transparency.
• Inspection.
• Adaptation.

What does each pillar do?

Transparency:
Transparency as the name depicts is clarity. It is known to be the first significant aspect of the Scrum process. Transparency here means that every team member, the scrum master, and other people involved in a project have a clear understanding of what they’re dealing with. It requires those aspects that have to be defined by in its day-to-day activities and artifacts. This is so that the team can share a common understanding of what is being seen. With that, transparency also refers to have a clear understanding of the individual roles and responsibilities.

Inspection:
Inspection in Scrum is not defined as an inspection done by a real inspector or an auditor. Instead, inspection in Scrum means an inspection done by everyone on the team. When every member of the team and not just the Scrum master or stakeholders are doing inspection daily, then it is highly likely that the project completes without any disruptions. That is why it is called the critical aspect of the empirical process as it enables the Scrum framework adaptive to complex problems.

Adaptation:
While working in an agile environment, there is always a possibility that whatever is decided at the start will be changed as you go further. This means that you need to embrace any kind of change and be open to adaptiveness. So this is the part where the sprint review meeting comes very handy. In the Scrum meeting, you discuss every single step in detail so as to avoid delays or flaws. With that, you also assess your whole process against the sprint goal. What happens here is that the whole team and stakeholders come together to collaborate about what was done during the sprint? What can be done differently to make things go even more smoothly? And an improved strategy is formed by keeping in view the things done in the previous sprint. This adaptation process leads the whole team to optimize the product value to its full.

An example that shows how all three pillars work:
Now with this example, we are going to explain to you how these three work together and without any one of them, the other one can’t happen.

Pillars are something that supports each other and so are the scrum pillars. These three pillars work together and get things done successfully. Suppose you skip the first pillar that is transparency. Now without transparency, you and your team won’t have a clear understanding of what has to be done. This problem will then lead to no inspection. In other words, you won’t be able to inspect anything unusual in your work. When you are not able to find any flaw, then you won’t as well be able to adapt to any change. And without adapting to change, you will certainly fail.

Thus this whole circle comes right back to you in the form of failure. This means that the essence here is the interaction of these pieces that work together and produce more than just the sum of the parts. So you can’t skip any of the pillars in this process.You can learn allot about these pillars  when you taking CSM practice test for the preparation of CSM exam.