The ability to respond to change is directly related to the amount of investment teams spend on up front work prior to developing a piece of work. Accelerating the investments in pieces of works once started also results in increased adaptability.

1. Enabling Better Adaptability

4. 1) Minimising Investment
in each Product Backlog items
for as long as possible
increases the ability to adapt
at low cost

6. 2) Accelerating Investment
in a Product Backlog item once
started to reduce the turn
around time for delivery
increases our ability to adapt

8. 3) Increasing/Decreasing
Accelerated Investment
phases to contain more/less
work increased/decreased
adaptability by minimising
investment in non started
Product Backlog items

10. 4) Using High Bandwidth
Communication increases the
work that can be accelerated
by reducing communication
waste

11. 5) Using Low Bandwidth
Communication decreases the
work that can be accelerated
by increasing communication
overheads associated with
documentation

13. 7) With Continuous Delivery
Eliminating waste within the
delivery chain enables more of
the investment cycle to be
executed in a shorter time

14. 8) Without Continuous Delivery
More waste relating to hand
overs within the delivery chain
results in less flexibility and
adaptability