Patterns not Practices
there are no best practices
Agile principles are sound, yet too often we end up in a forest of best practices that start as hopeful little saplings that quickly grow to become an end in themselves. It’s always good to be investing forward in building capabilities, but when the cultivation of practices begins to soak up serious resources at the expense of building and releasing software, then it might be time to fallback to a pragmatic attention to the actual circumstances of time and place.