Every ingredient in the pantry

5 Whys

Lean · Toyota

Ask “why?” repeatedly to get from a symptom to a root cause.

Async Check-in

Remote-first teams

A written daily update in your chat tool instead of a live meeting. Works across time zones.

Backlog Refinement

Ongoing work to split, clarify and size upcoming items so they’re ready to start.

Big Room Planning

SAFe · LeSS

All teams plan the next quarter together, find dependencies and agree shared objectives. SAFe calls it PI Planning.

Blameless Postmortems

SRE

After an incident, review what happened to improve the system, not to find someone to blame.

Built-in Compliance

SAFe · DevOps

Compliance checks (traceability, approvals, evidence) live in the Definition of Done and the pipeline, instead of a big audit phase at the end.

Classes of Service

Explicit policies for different kinds of work: expedite, fixed date, standard and intangible.

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

Every change that passes the pipeline can go to production at the push of a button.

Continuous Integration

XP · DevOps

Everyone merges to the main branch at least daily, with an automated build and tests on every change.

Continuous User Interviews

Product discovery

Talk to real users every week so decisions rest on evidence, not opinion.

Cynefin

Dave Snowden

A sense-making framework: clear, complicated, complex and chaotic work each need a different approach.

Daily Stand-up

Scrum · XP

Fifteen minutes a day to plan the next 24 hours and surface blockers.

Definition of Done

Scrum · XP

A shared checklist every item must meet before it counts as done.

Design Sprint

Google Ventures

A five-day process to go from a big question to a tested prototype.

DORA Metrics

DevOps

Four measures of delivery performance: deploy frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore.

Ensemble Programming

The whole team works on one thing at a time, at one screen. Also called mob programming.

Flow Metrics

Track cycle time, throughput, work in progress and item age straight from your board.

Hypothesis-driven Experiments

Lean Startup

Treat features as bets with a measurable hypothesis, and build the smallest possible test.

Impact Mapping

Gojko Adzic

A map linking a goal to the people who influence it, the impacts you want, and the deliverables that might cause them.

Liberating Structures

Lipmanowicz & McCandless

33 simple meeting formats, such as 1-2-4-All, that get everyone contributing instead of the loudest few.

Monte Carlo Forecasting

Kanban · #NoEstimates

Forecast delivery dates from past throughput instead of estimating every item.

Now / Next / Later Roadmap

Product management

A roadmap that shows priorities without fake dates: what we’re doing now, next and later.

OKRs

Intel · Google

Quarterly objectives with measurable key results that connect team work to company goals.

One Backlog for All Teams

LeSS

Several teams pull from a single ordered backlog owned by one Product Owner, so priorities are set once for the whole product.

Pair Programming

Two people work on one task at one screen, swapping roles often.

Role

Process Facilitator

Scrum · Kanban

Someone who keeps the process healthy: runs events well, removes blockers and coaches the team. Scrum calls it Scrum Master; Kanban calls it Flow Manager.

Product Backlog

✓ In your recipe Artifact

A single ordered list of everything the product might need. Detailed at the top, rough at the bottom.

Product Goal

The longer-term objective the backlog works toward.

Role

Product Owner

One person accountable for what the team works on next and why. Owns the order of the backlog and talks to stakeholders.

Replenishment Meeting

A short regular meeting where stakeholders choose what enters the team’s ready queue next.

Retrospective

Scrum · XP · Lean

The team regularly looks at how it works and picks one thing to improve.

Rotating Interrupt Shield

XP · SRE

One team member per week handles all incoming interruptions so everyone else can focus.

✓ In your recipe Event

Scrum of Scrums

Scrum@Scale

A representative from each team meets a few times a week to clear cross-team blockers.

Service Delivery Review

A regular look, with customers, at how well the team delivers: speed, predictability and quality.

Role

Service Request Manager

Owns the intake of incoming requests: triages them, sets expectations with requesters and orders the queue.

Six-week Cycles

Shape Up

Shaped pitches are chosen at a betting table for fixed six-week cycles, then two weeks of cool-down. Scope flexes; time does not.

SLOs & Error Budgets

SRE

Agree a reliability target. When the error budget runs out, feature work pauses for reliability work.

Sprint Goal

One objective per sprint that gives focus and room to adapt the plan.

Sprint Planning

At the start of each sprint the team agrees a goal and picks the work that achieves it.

Sprint Review

At the end of each sprint, show working results to stakeholders and adapt the plan from their feedback.

Sprints

Work in fixed cycles of one to four weeks. Each sprint has a goal and ends with something usable.

✓ In your recipe Metric

Story Points & Velocity

Scrum · XP

Size items relative to each other and track how much the team finishes per sprint, to forecast.

Stream-aligned Teams

Team Topologies

Each team owns one flow of value end to end, such as a product or customer journey, with the skills to deliver it without hand-offs.

Swarming

Kanban · Lean

When an item is stuck, people pause new work to help finish it.

Team Health Check

Spotify

The team rates itself on areas like speed, fun, learning and mission, then tracks the trend.

Team Working Agreement

Team coaching

A short set of norms the team writes itself: how we meet, communicate, decide and handle conflict.

Test-Driven Development

Write a failing test, make it pass, then tidy up. Repeat in small steps.

User Story Mapping

Jeff Patton

Lay out the user’s journey left to right, then slice thin releases top to bottom.

Value Stream Mapping

Lean

Map every step from idea to customer, showing working time against waiting time.

Visual Work Board

All work on one board, with columns that match how work really flows.

✓ In your recipe Event

Walk the Board

A daily check that goes through the board right to left, focusing on finishing what’s closest to done.

WIP Limits