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What is a “Core Practice” at Rise8?

We are defining a Core Practice to be:

  1. A practice we should strive for on every single Rise8 project.
  2. A practice every Riser should be able to speak to at a high level.

Importance of every single Riser being able to speak to every Core Practice

We believe every Riser should be able to speak to every Core Practice at a high level. Why is this important? Rise8 engages with customers to help them transform their software organizations - and these Core Practices should be in place in any healthy software organization. By having knowledge of all Core Practices, even those outside of a discipline's expertise, it allows us to identify gaps and help our customers find opportunities to continually improve their software practices.

Note that choosing a list we believe every Riser should be able to speak to is subjective and therefore this list will likely evolve over time.

The Rise8 Core Practices

The following is our list of Core Practices and when applicable show some sub-practices which fall under the higher level practice.

Teaming, Ceremonies & Collaboration Practices

  • Agile Sprint Ceremonies
    • Standups
    • Sprint Planning
    • Sprint Demos
    • Retrospectives
  • Balanced Teams
  • Facilitation
  • Feedback
  • Pairing
  • Portfolio Management
  • Practice Management
  • Scopings
  • Team Enablement
    • I do, We do, You do

DevSecOps Practices

  • Automated Testing
    • Test Driven Development (TDD)
    • Tests as Documentation
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Environment Control
    • Configuration in the Environment
    • Containerization
    • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
    • Environment Parity
  • Platform Health Monitoring & Observability
  • Continuous Risk Management Framework (cRMF) & Continuous Authority to Operate (cATO)
  • Version Control Systems (VCS)
  • Zero-Downtime Deploys

Product & Design Practices

  • Data & Metrics Collection
  • Discovery & Framing
  • Making & Testing Assumptions
  • Lean Enterprise
    • Value Stream Mapping
    • Cost of Delay Prioritization
    • Impact Mapping
  • Lean Startup
  • Outcome-Oriented Roadmaps (OOR)
    • Rapid Product Experimentation
    • Pivot or Persevere
  • Ruthless Prioritization
  • Stakeholder Management
    • Identifying Project Stakeholders
    • Goal Alignment
    • Cascading Goals
  • User Research
    • User Interviews
    • Prototyping
    • Usability Testing
    • Accessibility Testing
    • Continuous Discovery