The Agile Family Map
This optional Deeper Dive places common names on a shared map. Extreme Programming emphasizes continuously practiced technical quality. Lean contributed waste reduction, built-in quality, pull, and flow. Historical methods such as Crystal, DSDM, and FDD contributed right-sized process, timeboxing, business collaboration, and feature focus.
Scaling frameworks address coordination across many teams. They are advanced tools rather than the shared foundation. Teams often blend practices; the Manifesto’s values and principles are the common trunk.
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Extreme Programming (XP) is the craft branch: practices such as pair programming and test-driven development intensify continuous technical quality.
Lean predates agile and contributed relentless waste reduction, built-in quality, pull, and flow. Kanban is a direct descendant of this way of seeing work.
Crystal, DSDM, and FDD are historical siblings associated with right-sized process, timeboxing and business participation, and feature-centered delivery.
Scaling frameworks address coordination across many teams. Know the category without mistaking it for the shared foundation. Values and principles are the trunk; frameworks and practices are tools teams may combine.
SAFe® and Scaled Agile Framework® are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc. Referenced for identification only; Strategica Institute is independent and unaffiliated.