Definition
Empirical Process Control is a core Scrum principle, and stands distinguished from other Agile frameworks. It’s not a process or a technique for building products, but is a framework within which various processes and techniques can be employed.
With Empirical Process Control, the scope of the product and the processes aren’t fixed overall. Instead, a small, shippable slice of the product is created, inspected and adapted to the way it’s going to be built. Measures of transparency are also allowed to enable clarity in inspection.
Further Reading
- “Introduction to Empirical Processes and Semiparametric Inference” (book), by Michael R. Kosorok.