This post is probably going to be hated and loved at the same time. Because, when people talk about agile practices, they can sometimes become very religious. Which means I may be putting my head in a noose with this one.
But who cares. It's worth it. I like living dangerously.
You see, at different occasions I had wanted the availability of a big list of agile practices. But I never found any. All common agile practices are spread out over different methods, and many different sites. That's why I decided to create my own list.
Disclaimer: the list below is definitely incomplete, and probably controversial!
I constructed the list below from practices found on eight different web sites. I ignored some well-known agile concepts like "keep it simple" and "remove waste" because I consider those to be principles, not practices. I also ignored some practices when I had the feeling that they were only listed on one site, and nobody else was using them. While on the other hand, I listed some practices here that some people do not consider to be truly agile. But I included them nonetheless, when I noticed that they are regularly being used in an agile context.
If you disagree with the list, or if you think some practices are missing, please let me know!
You see, I am considering to use this list for a poll on agile practices and how they are being applied. And I hope you're willing to help me in getting this list in order before conducting such a poll.
Thanks already!
| Requirements | ||||||||
| Product Vision / Vision Statement | SA | JS | ||||||
| Product Backlog | SA | MG | ||||||
| User Stories | Wiki | SA | C2 | AM | XP | |||
| Use Cases | Wiki | C2 | AM | XP | ||||
| Usage Scenarios | AM | |||||||
| Personas | Wiki | AM | ||||||
| Planning Poker | Wiki | |||||||
| Requirement Prioritization | Wiki | AM | ||||||
| Design | ||||||||
| Architectural Spikes / Spike Solutions | C2 | XP | ||||||
| Domain Driven Design | Wiki | IXP | ||||||
| Emergent Design / Evolutionary Design | Wiki | C2 | IXP | |||||
| CRC Cards | Wiki | AM | XP | |||||
| Design by Contract | Wiki | |||||||
| System Metaphor | XP | |||||||
| Construction | ||||||||
| Coding Style / Coding Guidelines / Coding Standard | Wiki | JS | IXP | |||||
| Test Driven Development | Wiki | C2 | XP | |||||
| Behavior Driven Development | Wiki | |||||||
| Pair-Programming / Pairing | Wiki | C2 | JS | XP | IXP | |||
| Refactoring | Wiki | C2 | XP | IXP | ||||
| Collective Code Ownership | C2 | JS | XP | IXP | ||||
| Daily Builds / Automated Builds / Ten-Minute Builds | Wiki | JS | ||||||
| Continuous Integration | Wiki | C2 | JS | XP | IXP | |||
| Code Reviews / Peer Reviews | Wiki | |||||||
| Software Metrics / Code Metrics & Analysis | Wiki | |||||||
| Source Control / Version Control | Wiki | JS | ||||||
| Issue Tracking / Bug Tracking | Wiki | |||||||
| Configuration Management | Wiki | |||||||
| Frequent Delivery / Frequent Releases | C2 | XP | IXP | |||||
| Testing | ||||||||
| Unit Testing | Wiki | XP | ||||||
| Smoke Testing / Build Verification Test | Wiki | |||||||
| Integration Testing | Wiki | |||||||
| System Testing | Wiki | |||||||
| Exploratory Testing | Wiki | |||||||
| Test Automation | Wiki | SA | ||||||
| Storytesting / Acceptance Criteria / Acceptance Testing | Wiki | C2 | AM | XP | IXP | |||
| Process | ||||||||
| Timeboxing / Fixed Sprints / Fixed Iteration Length | Wiki | XP | ||||||
| Release Planning | C2 | JS | XP | |||||
| Iteration Planning / Planning Game / Sprint Planning | Wiki | SA | MG | C2 | JS | XP | IXP | |
| Sprint Backlog | SA | MG | ||||||
| Task Board | SA | MG | ||||||
| Definition of Done / Done Done | SA | JS | ||||||
| Daily Stand-up Meeting / Daily Scrum | Wiki | SA | MG | C2 | JS | XP | ||
| Velocity | XP | |||||||
| Sprint Review / Iteration Demo | SA | MG | JS | |||||
| Value Stream Mapping | Wiki | |||||||
| Root Cause Analysis / 5 Whys | Wiki | JS | ||||||
| Burn Down Charts / Burn Up Charts | Wiki | SA | MG | |||||
| Big Visible Charts / Information Radiators | JS | |||||||
| Retrospective / Reflection Workshop | Wiki | SA | JS | IXP | ||||
| Organization | ||||||||
| Small Team | IXP | |||||||
| Cross-Functional Team | Wiki | |||||||
| Self-Organizing Team / Scrum Team | MG | |||||||
| Colocated Team / Sitting Together / Common Workspace | Wiki | SA | C2 | JS | IXP | |||
| On-Site Customer / Product Owner | SA | MG | C2 | JS | ||||
| Scrum Master | SA | MG | ||||||
| Sustainable Pace | IXP | |||||||
| Move People Around | XP | |||||||
| Scrum of Scrums | SA |
References
Wiki = Wikipedia
SA = Scrum Alliance
MG = Mountain Goat Software
C2 = Cunningham & Cunningham
AM = Agile Modeling
JS = James Shore
XP = Extreme Programming
IXP = Industrial XP
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