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Foundation

Foundational practices focus on creating a team culture, collaborative environments, and technical practices.

These support fast and iterative journeys through the other parts of the loop.

Without the foundation, teams cannot reach sustainable, continuous delivery.

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1-2-4-All

Tap into the wisdom of crowds

15/5 Reports

Reporting for people who don't have time for reports

Affinity Mapping

Identify insights, patterns and trends in research and ideas

Architectural Decision Records (ADR)

Open & Transparent Decision History

Behavior-Driven Development

Creating a shared understanding of requirements in product teams

Burndown

Visualisation of work left to do within a specified time period

C4 Architecture

Allows for simple layers of abstraction for different components of an architecture design

Candy or Swag

Demonstrate the value of open organization principles like collaboration and transparency

Celebrating Failure

Raise the team's collective awareness of product failure root causes

Check-ins

Foster deeper connections and belonging with simple questions

Collaborative Pathways

Turning shared purpose into shared results

Confidence Voting

Gains consensus around a team's agreement or disagreement on the current activity, event or questions

Continuous Delivery

Automated testing and releasing of software.

Continuous Deployment

Deploying changes more frequently to get faster end-user feedback.

Continuous Integration

Submit small, frequent changes instead of large, infrequent changes

Daily Standup

A short time-boxed synchronization of the team activities that occurs in a cadence determined by the team

Defence in Depth

Layering security controls through your application

Definition of Done

Shared knowledge and understanding of what it means for a work item to be done by a team

Definition of Ready

Shared knowledge regarding what it means for a work item to be ready to be worked on

Double Diamond

A structured approach to tackle challenges in four phases, from exploring to taking focused actions.

Establish Shared Principles

Principles Over Practices

Everything-as-Code

Save everything as code - configuration, infrastructure and pipelines

Feature Toggles

AKA Feature Flags/Bits/Flipping/Controls

Five Whys (5 Whys)

Get past the symptoms of a problem to the root cause

Force Field Analysis - Force Field Map

Understanding change/goals

GEMs

An alternative to OKRs (Objective Key Results) for those that think in experiments

GitOps

If it’s not in Git, it’s not real.

GROW Model for 1-2-1 Coaching

The purpose of coaching is to unlock people's potential to maximise their performance, facilitate personal and professional development . Here's a tool to structure your coaching interaction.

Hello, World! networking event

Say "Hello" to the World and the World will say "Hello" to you!

I Have a Dream

Build deeper team relationships

Ice Breakers

Breaking barriers and connecting people

InnerSource

Re-use code, collaborate, and use open practices inside your organisation.

Knowledge Sharing

Share what we know, and what we wish to learn.

Leaders Eat Last

Building Trust Between Leaders and Teams

Lean Coffee

Democratically generated agendas for more valuable conversations

Lego Labs

Experiment with processes for rapidly developing digital products. Go from problem to prototype with feedback and iterations while building a Colony on Mars (with legos)!

Limit Work in Progress

Pipes that aren't clogged increase the flow through the system

Manage Flow

Optimize the processing work items

Means to End

Define and communicate Vision, Mission, Strategy, Goals, Tactics & Objectives

Measuring Psychological Safety

How to measure the Psychological Safety in teams and organisations

Meditación

Generar emociones positivas para el equipo y ayudar a desarrollar una mentalidad empática hacia los miembros del equipo.

Meditation

Generate positive emotions for the team and help to develop an empathetic mindset towards team members

Mentorship

Resource mentors and mentees with structured mentoring.

Mob Programming

Like pair programming but with the whole team

Mood Marbles

A mechanism for gauging team sentiment

Moving Motivators

Uncover what motivates your colleagues and yourself

Mutation Testing

Mutation testing is used to design new software tests and evaluate the quality of existing software tests.

Network Mapping

Build a network of relationships in your organization or team

Niko Niko Calendar

Are a visual tool that helps managers and teams measure happiness and motivation (Mood).

Observability

Handling the unknown unknowns.

Offboarding

Practice destroying and re-creating your applications

One Minute Mindfulness

Calm the mind and body to help team members manage stress levels

One-word story

This practice sharpens the ability of a team to listen and progress collectively.

Open Decision Framework

How to make transparent, inclusive, and customer-centric decisions

Open Leadership Mindset

A specific fusion of behaviors and mindsets characterizes the next generation of leaders.

Open Leader Persona

Identify the mindset, challenges, behaviours, and strengths of open leaders

The Organum

Structuring project knowledge to save time and reduce cognitive overload.

Pair Programming

Increasing the knowledge sharing and communication between team members

Parking Lot (Car Park)

A visible area to help track important items, ideas, questions, and issues that may not be important to discuss at the time, but the group does wish to discuss later.

Personal User Manuals

Connecting with colleagues in a deep and meaningful way

Pick-Play-Pass

Gamify group engagement

Ping-Pong Programming

Where Pair Programming meets TDD

Plan Your Trip

Manage risks by considering the 4Cs: Costs, Consequences, Context, and Choices.

Quote Wall

A collection of quotes or phrases captured from the team that may be motivational, inspiring, or down-right hilarious!

Raison d'être

Defining the teams reason for being

Realtime Retrospective

Getting feedback faster and improving the overall experience of your event.

Relative Sizing

Facilitate conversation and gain shared alignment on sizing of complexity and value

Risk Management

Identify potential problems that might occur during the course of your project and identify ways of avoiding them. Risks, which are occurring, will become issues.