Help me work through feedback on my PSMIII

Each artifact gives transparency over progress which can be assessed and replanned:

• The Product Backlog gives transparency over all of the work remaining for a Product throughout its lifetime
• The Sprint Backlog gives transparency over the work that remains this Sprint to meet a Sprint Goal
• The Increment gives transparency over Product value, immediately and empirically

Each commitment associated with an artifact provides a focus for measurement:

• For the Product Backlog it's the Product Goal, the work on it being subservient to that goal
• For the Sprint Backlog it's the Sprint Goal, again the work on it being subservient to that goal
• For the Increment it's the Definition of Done, hence the Definition of Done provides transparency over the progress of work actually being completed, as well as over any technical debt that might be accrued.

"understanding of the impact a Scrum Team’s behaviours on transparency."

I'm only guessing but you mentioned behaviors, and the Scrum values came to mind right away which manifest trust. Without trust can we have transparency? Transparency in Scrum is not created by clearer artifacts. It is created by behaviors that make telling the truth safe and unavoidable at the same time.

The artifact commitments force moments of truth:

• The Product Goal exposes whether the backlog actually matters

• The Sprint Goal exposes whether the Sprint succeeded

• The Definition of Done exposes whether anything is really finished

The Scrum Values determine what happens in those moments.

Commitment and Focus keep teams from gaming the goals.
Openness and Courage allow bad news to surface.
Respect prevents that truth from being punished.

When those values are lived, people can admit reality without fear, which is what psychological safety actually is. Trust then emerges because the artifacts consistently tell the truth about what is happening.

Thank you Ian and Chris for your contributions, your comments have improved my understanding.

Question: what aspects make the artifacts transparent?

My answer:
- The the content of the PB and how it is ordered offers transparency into product related decisions made by the PO, including the currently understood priority or importance of the upcoming work as the PB contains PBIs for future Sprints. Also, the PB offers transparency to the future state of the product in the form of a Product Goal, as this commitment is in the PB.
- The Sprint Backlog offers transparency into the three aspects of the SB: the SG, the PBIs for the Sprint and the plan to deliver the selected PBIs. Specifically, the current state of the SB can make transparent the progress of the Sprint -- whether the SG has or has not been achieved, which PBIs have been completed or not completed in the current Sprint and what is the current plan to achieve the SG.
- The Increment offers transparency into the product-related decisions the PO has made and the current usefulness and value of the Product. Also, through its commitment, the DoD, the Increment makes transparent the quality level a PBI must meet in order to become part of an Increment and as a result highlights the quality level of the current Increment.

Thank you all! Will come with more shortly!