Periodic Table of Agile Principles and Practices


#1

A very interesting approach:

I need to print this out, large scale, and start to absorb it.

From the article:

Layout Principle

  • The Origin Method such as XP, Scrum, DevOps, etc is indicated by the color as well as the name of the method on the top-right corner.
  • The Category, Principle or Practice is indicated by the shape: rectangle or round corners.
  • The number represents the Complexity expressed as the number of dependencies.
  • The team or committee concerned with the principle or practice is indicated as note on the bottom-right corner.
  • The horizontal dimension is related to the complexity. The more on the right is an element, the higher its complexity.
  • The vertical dimension is related to classifying principles and practices more organization or more related to engineering, in specific layers related to the category or team they apply to.


#2

An amazing amount of thought went into this.

I find that my little brain starts to hurt when I see diagrams like this.

The information is good, but the work at decoding it is often greater than the reward. I think I’m going to follow your lead and go with A3.

Looking through it though, the devil appears to be in the detail. Product Management and Architecture Committees seem like a blast from the past. This might work in a specific application. The metaphor is also a nice bit of nostalgia.


#3

Yeah, @bradstokes the committees do seem a vestige of the past.
Yet they still exist in many enterprise orgs think/undergoing/avoiding transformation

While all the dependencies are detailed in the notes… I’d love to see a “responsive” UI… click and voila… dependencies revealed.


#4

See: the Deloitte Agile Subway Map. Brilliantly put together and very deep in knowledge, but cognitively it’s like a shotgun blast to the face.


#5

#6

I went back and really worked my way through. There is some nice categorization, some controversy with Story Points, Metaphors and Committees, but overall a nice attempt to capture a thought. I won’t use it, but I’m glad I stopped to read and understand it.