6. Open Technical Practices – Beginnings, Starting Right

So far, we have talked about the foundational culture and collaboration practices that support our discovery, options, and delivery Mobius loop. The next two chapters establish the technical practices that teams should implement to make the foundation even stronger.

Think of the Mobius loop as an engine turning from discovery through options generation and into delivery. This cycle continues by doing more delivery until we need to revisit the outcomes we've targeted. Delivery is where we take the concept and make it real. As we deliver, we will learn a lot and garner feedback from our stakeholders and our team. At some point in time, we will need to revisit the discovery side of the loop, either to adjust what we know or to realign what we deliver next.

Figure 6.1: The Mobius loop

Imagine we've done one iteration and built some new features for our product, such as a leaderboard...