When investigating Lean for the first time, books and articles that give an overview of the principles and tenets of Lean can appear to be contradictory. For example many managers may question how Cease Inspections can be advocated where a basic principle of Lean is to Create Knowledge. Surely one of the fundamental reasons of Inspections such as Code Reviews is to help more Junior Developers adhere to company standards and learn better, more efficient ways to code?I discussed this further with Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) and Jean Tabaka and they gave some good insight into what this phrase ‘Cease Inspections’ really means, even with Jean’s radical conclusion of Firing your QA department