rituals

Icebreaker

An icebreaker is an activity you can use at the beginning of a meeting to make attendees more comfortable with each other, encouraging them to speak up, listen up, join in, and open up to new ideas.

Product Backlog Refinement

Product Backlog Refinement is a summary of all activities related to updating your Product Backlog items. Product Owners are responsible for the refinement but they should make decisions based on the feedback from the Development Team and stakeholders.

Product Backlog

A Product Backlog is a breakdown of prioritized work to be done. It is a sorted list of changes your product needs. It is usually the Product Owner who is responsible for creating and updating the backlog.

Continuous Delivery

Practicing Continuous Delivery means that you adopt practices to be ready to release product changes any time you want. Your product is always ready to deploy to production.

Meaningless Work

Meaningless work can be one of these two cases: 1. A feeling that the work has no meaning, the team members do not have a sense of purpose. 2. A work on a product that is not valuable.

Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration is a software development practice that makes developers integrate code changes into a shared repository routinely and frequently. Usually, each person integrates at least daily and that ensures them that their code changes do not break anything.

Kanban

Kanban is a Lean method similar to Scrum. It is focused on managing a continuous delivery of products with avoiding the "bottleneck effect". It helps teams work together and more effectively.

Agile Events

Agile Events are necessary meetings for keeping up the good work. They are usually time-boxed and the most common Agile framework that uses these periodic rituals is Scrum.

Design Sprint

A Design Sprint is a framework that reduces the risks associated with product development. It is an intense process done by a small team in just 3 - 5 days.

Code Review

Code Review is an important practice for checking each other's code. The reviewers are other developers from the team. The goal is to uncover potential mistakes that could slip through testing.

Bus Factor

A Bus Factor measures the minimum number of team members who have to be hit by a bus to put the project in jeopardy. The goal is to increase your Bus Factor as much as possible.

Lean Canvas

A Lean Canvas is a 1-page chart with 9 basic building blocks. It helps to identify problems and solutions for your product.