Planning Poker
A consensus-based estimation technique where team members simultaneously reveal cards showing their estimate.
Will Rowan
Will Rowan
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INVEST Model
Bill Wake's mnemonic for well-formed user stories: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
Status Reporting
Status reports are primarily a trust instrument, not a progress tracker.
Checklists
Atul Gawande's technique of using concise, sequential steps for complex processes.
Walking Skeleton
A tiny end-to-end implementation exercising the full architecture with minimal functionality.
User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton's visual technique represents user journeys with a horizontal backbone of activities and vertical depth of functionality beneath each.
Dual-Track Agile
An approach that runs discovery and delivery work in parallel rather than sequentially.
Command & Control
The deliberate practice of choosing perspective and methods rather than defaulting to familiar habits.