Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success

Appendix C. Getting the Most from Agile Practice Patterns

Part 1 of this book, “Thoughts about Software Development,” addresses how to go about setting your goals and choosing the appropriate practices to achieve them. Once you have them, the team should answer the following questions explicitly. If the team does not answer explicitly, it will find itself answering them implicitly as it stumbles along. For the set of questions that follow, assume that the team will adopt Practice A.

• Where does Practice A fit within an adoption strategy? Does it come first? Do we introduce it a few months after getting warmed up with other practices?
• Which development practices are related to Practice A? Are there any prerequisite practices for Practice A to ...