Today there are many methods, processes, techniques, etc. that attempt to help project teams conduct their work. While there are indeed some important differences between them, the commonalities are far greater – the end goal is for all of us to get working software.  Thus adopting complete processes does not make practical sense. Instead the focus should be on being able to mix and match ideas from many different sources inside or outside our own world and compose these ideas to get a better way to work.
 
In this talk I will describe a series of innovative new ideas that enable practitioners to effectively deploy, configure and use process.   I will introduce the concept of a practice, and show how practices can be used to ‘cut up’ heavy, often irrelevant processes creating ‘developer friendly’ process guidance into smaller, digestible chunks.  The session will provide a framework for thinking about practices, a set of ideas for structuring a practice, an approach to delivering practices and a mechanism for people to use them.