Pattern Templates · Free to use

Start from a pattern template, 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 or copy, 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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