What is the typical duration of the Inspect & Adapt (I&A) event?

• A. 1 day
• B. 3-4 hours
• C. 30 minutes
• D. 2 weeks

Answer: (B)

Inspect & Adapt is the end-of-PI event where the ART demonstrates what was built, reviews how well the objectives were met, and identifies improvements for the next increment. Because the focus is to quickly inspect progress, gather feedback, and plan actionable improvements, the event is timeboxed to a few hours. Typically three to four hours is enough to run a System Demo of the integrated solution, review quantitative measures of progress, and conduct a structured problem-solving workshop to create the Improvement Backlog. This duration keeps the learning loop tight—long enough to be meaningful, but short enough to maintain momentum. Choices like a full day or two weeks would be unnecessarily lengthy or outside the established cadence, while too short a window wouldn’t allow a meaningful demo, measurement review, and root-cause analysis.