Pattern Templates · Free to use
Start from a not a blank page.
The canvases, checklists and personas we coach with, ready for your team.
Download, copy, run.
take them, use them, change them, share them, that's the point
The Context
What's a pattern template?
Pattern Templates are artefacts that help your team apply an Agile Data pattern in a consistent way. Same session, same structure, every time. Each one below is free to download, copy or open as an app in your browser, and each links to a guide on how to run it.
We teach your team to do the data work. No team, or no time? AgileData.io will do the work for you.
The wall
Four pattern templates, ready to go
Every format we have. Pick the one your next session needs.
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Canvas · The Green Book
Information Product Canvas
Capture the requirements for one Information Product with your stakeholders in 30 minutes. The canvas from the Green Book.
How to fill it in: the IPC companion Substack
one canvas, 30 minutes
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Personas · The Pink Book
Data Persona Template
Define the people who will consume your data before you build for them. Roles, outcomes, actions, features. Not a marketing avatar.
How to use it: the Data Persona companion Substack
know who you build for
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Checklist · Architecture
Data Architecture Layers Checklist
Decide which architecture layers your data platform needs, and what each layer does, before you build it.
How to run it: the how-to guide
layers before lakes
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Recommended reading
Business Event Analysis and Modeling
Lawrence Corr's BEAM book. Not one of ours. It is the book behind the business event modelling patterns we coach, and the natural next read after the Blue Book.
the book behind the patterns
Apps · Open source
Run the pattern templates as apps
Four free open source apps that put an Agile Data Guides pattern template in your browser. Use them in your browser, no install, no sign up, and your data never leaves your device.
App · Requirements
Information Product Canvas
Gather the requirements for an Information Product with your stakeholders, straight onto the canvas. Export to JSON or PowerPoint when the session ends.
the canvas, now clickable
App · Definitions
Business Glossary
Define your business terms once, with synonyms, categories, stewards and status. One shared language for your whole team.
say what you mean
App · Modelling
Business Event Matrix
Map your core business events across your domains and concepts. A BEAM style matrix your team fills in together.
events first, always
App · Contracts
Data Contract
Define the contract for each data asset. Schema, trust rules, SLAs, ownership and lineage, exported as ODCS, OpenMetadata, Word and more.
agree it before you build it
All four are MIT licensed and save to plain JSON, ready for Claude or whatever AI tools your team runs. More apps are on the way.
See them all on GitHubfree, as in actually free
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Got a pattern template of your own?
Get in touch and help us publish more useful patterns. Or learn to run the ones above with your team.
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