Balanced Agility, like Scrum, also depends on BA. According to Nonaka, "Ba" can be thought of as a shared space for emerging relationships. This space can be physical (e.g. office, dispersed business space), virtual (e.g., email, teleconference), mental (e,g. shared experiences, ideas, ideals) or any combination of them. Ba provides a platform for advancing individual and/or collective knowledge.	Balanced Agility with Scrum The MINIMALLY SUFFIENT, EASY but SAFE entry point into AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, … more engineering practices than Scrum but much less than XP	Balanced Agility is specific, not a framework. It requires fewer engineering practices than XP. It is NOT OPTIMAL or BEST; instead it is MINIMAL but SUFFICIENT, engineering-wise. It is also EASIER and somewhat SAFE.
	Balanced Agility attempts to provide an initial balance between order and chaos – a minimal entry point of engineering practices. And it also attempts to provide guidance as to how to add engineering practices while you maintain balance. You development Evolution can be: 1) Start with Balanced Agility (Scrum + 3 engineering practice 2) Add Other Engineering Practices as needed These are the 3 minimal engineering practices: v Frequent Integration (configuration management, check -in, check-outs, intra day integration, etc.) v Testing (unit, regression, integration, system, acceptance) v Release management (labeled releases, release notes, migrations, platforms, sandboxes, deployment, etc.) These are the exact same practices that the first Scrum in 1993 used, and the same engineering practices that I have used for most of my Scrum projects since 1996. This makes your starting point: minimal but sufficient specific relatively safe but most important: EASY to ACCOMPLISH! sufficient
Scrum Summary of Practices BA Book (download)		Balanced Agility is like riding a bike, or skiing, you need to start with minimal balance and continue with balance as you ride
BA means shared space of RELATIONSHIPS	Copyright Mike Beedle 2004.	Be Agile or be left behind!