Engineering Practices vs Agile Techniques

Reading the 12th State of Agile we can see the practices listed there divided into two groups: Agile Techniques and Engineering Practices.

The most commonly used Agile Technique is The Daily Standup, but it also includes things like Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives, Kanban, etc.

The Engineering practices include things like Unit testing, Coding standards, Continuous Integration and similar items.

I’d say the Agile Techniques are mostly about management while the Engineering Practices are mostly about, well, engineering. That is Development and QA if you really want to separate those two.

Recommended reading today: Download the pdf version of the 12th State of Agile and flip through it. It will give you quite a few ideas to think about.

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