Session 08: Agile practices. Building the agile house.

Starting from this session we will discuss best known Agile practices and see which we are already doing, which we are not, which we are doing now but need to improve, which we need to do and which we will never do.

I started by explaining the relation between the Agile values, principles and practices as I imagine them as building a house the values are the foundations, the principles are the pillars and the practices are the bricks or the materials that fill the house and make its shape, depending of the type of materials and how much will define the type of Agile method you are using. Ofcourse this is not a very accurate or complete idea but it helps connecting the different parts.

I then listed the practices I'm aware of and gave a brief introduction about each one. Then weordered them by importance so we can start with the next session.

The are practices:

Pair Programming

Energized Work

Informative Workspace

Root-Cause Analysis

Retrospectives

Trust

Sit Together

Real Customer Involvement

Ubiquitous Language

Stand-Up Meetings

Coding Standards

Iteration Demo

Reporting

“Done Done”

No Bugs

Version Control

Ten-Minute Build

Continuous Integration

CollectiveCode Ownership

Vision

Release Planning

The Planning Game

Risk Management

Iteration Planning

Slack

Stories

Estimating

Incremental Requirements

Customer Tests

Test-Driven Development

Refactoring

Simple Design

Incremental Design and Architecture

Spike Solutions

Performance Optimization

Exploratory Testing