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The DevOps Essentials practice provides guidance to smooth the transition from development to release and increase feedback from operations back to development.

The Agile Governance Essentials practice provides the guidance to align decision checkpoints between different development endeavors and non-software activities.

The Agile Architecture Essentials practice provides guidance for achieving just-in-time architecture preparation and continuous and emergent evolution of the software system.

The Adaptive Funding (AF) practice provides guidance to allocate agile budgets across development portfolios and to forecast budget requirements in a continuous manner.

Use this practice for a structured approach to the testing and quality assurance initiatives of a project and to improve estimating, monitoring and control of the test activities.

The Practice Workbench is a comprehensive development environment for practices, and complements the EssWork platform by providing a robust, professional, and productive authoring and development experience. The Practice Workbench helps practice authors and method engineers to focus on the essential business values of practice and method descriptions, and makes it easy and intuitive to develop and deploy practices based on a kernel.

Information radiators are a great way to help everyone understand what is going on, what is important, and how the team is progressing. The Alpha State Cards can be used to create a simple, intuitive state board that helps a team monitor its progress and health. Use this game to visually track the agile health of your endeavor regardless of the practices or method being used. [Download the complete guide of all seven Alpha State Card games.](/publications/brochure/alpha-state-card-games)

When given a major piece of development work teams may want to identify some intermediate milestones to help improve their estimates and plans. This is particularly useful when the development involves high levels of innovation such as new teams, new ways of working, new technologies, new business domains, or new business partners. Use this game to visualize your milestones and form a light-weight roadmap for your software development. [Download the complete guide of all seven Alpha State Card games.](/publications/brochure/alpha-state-card-games)

Organizations often require teams to use a standard software development or application management lifecycle. Often these are defined in a way that overly restricts the freedom of the development teams, and focus on the specific work products to be produced rather than the results or state to be achieved. Using the Alpha State cards this can be done in a lightweight, result focused way that is independent of the practice that the team selects to achieve the goals. Use this game to visualize your software development lifecycle to form a starting point for team planning. Download...

Defining important check points in the conception, evolution, funding or deployment of a software system can be difficult to do in a practice-independent way. This often leads to checkpoints that focus on the way the team does its work and the documentation it produces rather than the results that it achieves. The use of the Alpha State Cards to define check points makes the checkpoints result focused, light-weight and practice independent. It also enables them to be used by any and all teams regardless of the development approach they are using. Use this game to define practice independent...