Principles all Agile Teams Should Be Using

There are several practices that almost all teams, regardless of approach, should be doing. Several of these are not part of Scrum but can readily be added to it. Lean-Agile at the Team discussed how an integration of Scrum, Kanban and eXtreme Programming was useful to see the practices all teams should be doing.  Even when a practice isn’t suitable to a particular situation, the principle underneath it can lead to an appropriate practice. Consider the list in Figure 1 to be a set of practices that should be considered. If not appropriate for your context the consider alternative practices that meet the same objective.

Figure 1:

Scrum practitioners should usually add: