Agile Pantry

Library

Every ingredient in the pantry

52 roles, events, artifacts, practices, metrics and models from 26 sources. Each one lists what it fixes, what it needs and what it clashes with.

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Async Check-in

Remote-first teams

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

Practice

Blameless Postmortems

SRE

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

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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.

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Classes of Service

Kanban

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

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Continuous Delivery

DevOps

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

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Continuous Integration

XP · DevOps

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

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Continuous User Interviews

Product discovery

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

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Ensemble Programming

XP

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

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Hypothesis-driven Experiments

Lean Startup

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

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Liberating Structures

Lipmanowicz & McCandless

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

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Pair Programming

XP

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

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Rotating Interrupt Shield

XP · SRE

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

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Swarming

Kanban · Lean

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

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Team Health Check

Spotify

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

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Test-Driven Development

XP

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

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WIP Limits

Kanban

A cap on how many items can be in each stage at once. Stop starting, start finishing.

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