Agile software development - An umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance
Agile Manifesto - A document that proclaims better ways of developing software by valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan
Software prototyping - The activity of creating prototypes of software applications, i.e., incomplete versions of the software program being developed
Minimum viable product - A version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development
User story - An informal, natural language description of features of a software system
Card, Conversation, Confirmation - A practice where the Card is a token representing the requirement, the Conversation is where details are teased out, and the Confirmation is the acceptance test for the story
INVEST of PBI - A mnemonic created by Bill Wake as a reminder of the characteristics of a good quality Product Backlog Item (PBI)
Independent: The PBI should be self-contained
Negotiable: Draft PBIs are not explicit contracts and should leave space for discussion
Valuable: A PBI must deliver value to the stakeholders
Estimable: You must always be able to estimate the size of a PBI
Small: PBIs should not be so big as to become impossible to plan/task/order within a level of accuracy
Testable: The PBI or its related description must provide the necessary information to make test development possible
Key Methodologies
Extreme Programming - A software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements
Scrum - A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value
Acceptance test-driven development - A development methodology based on communication between the business customers, the developers, and the testers
Three Amigos - A meeting where the product owner, developer, and quality tester come together to establish clarity on the scope of the project
Behavior driven development - An agile software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, quality assurance testers, and customer representatives in a software project
Specification by example - A collaborative approach to defining requirements and business-oriented functional tests for software products based on capturing and illustrating requirements using realistic examples instead of abstract statements
Key Practices
Refactoring - A disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior
Software rot - The tendency for software to deteriorate in quality, performance, or usefulness over time
Technical debt - A concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy (limited) solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer
Technical Debt Ratio - A metric used to measure the cost of fixing the existing technical debt in a codebase compared to the cost of developing the entire codebase from scratch
Test driven development - A software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before software is fully developed, and tracking all software development by repeatedly testing the software against all test cases
Tools for ATDD/BDD
Gauge - A free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of writing and maintaining acceptance tests
Cucumber - A tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) by reading executable specifications written in plain text and validating that the software does what those specifications say
Gherkin Syntax - A set of grammar rules that makes plain text structured enough for Cucumber to understand
OODA loop - A four-step approach to decision-making that focuses on filtering available information, putting it in context and quickly making the most appropriate decision while also understanding that changes can be made as more data becomes available
Lean manufacturing - A production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers
The 7 Wastes: The activities that add no value for the customer
Value-stream mapping - A lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer
Toyota Production System - An integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices
Kanban - A lean method to manage and improve work across human systems
Kaizen - A philosophy that focuses on continuous, incremental improvement of all functions and involves all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers
Autonomation - The practice of designing equipment to partially automate a process and to automatically stop when a problem is detected, allowing operators to fix the issue immediately
Heijunka - A method for smoothing out production by leveling both the volume and the product mix
Genchi Genbutsu - A principle that suggests that to truly understand a situation, one needs to go to the "real place" where the work is done, observe the process, and verify the facts for themselves
Andon (manufacturing) - A visual management system used to indicate the status of a production line
Muda (Japanese term) - A key concept in lean process management as one of the three types of deviation from optimal allocation of resources, meaning futility, uselessness, or wastefulness
Theory of Constraints - A management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints
CALMS framework - A conceptual model for approaching DevOps that stands for Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing
Cultural & Organizational Foundations
Contingency theory - A theory that claims there is no single best way to organize a corporation, lead a company, or make decisions, asserting that the optimal course of action depends on internal and external situations
Expectancy theory - A theory that proposes an individual's behavior is motivated by the expected results of their actions, with the desirability of the outcome determining the selection of a specific behavior
Intrinsic motivation - A type of motivation that arises from internal factors, such as enjoyment, curiosity, or a sense of fulfillment, where individuals engage in an activity for its own sake
Management 3.0 - An ever-evolving mindset and a collection of games, tools, and practices designed to help any worker manage the organization and improve work systems
PM Theory of Leadership - A leadership theory that classifies leaders into two categories: performance-oriented and maintenance-oriented
Generative organizational culture - A type of culture characterized by a high degree of trust and cooperation, a shared sense of responsibility for the mission, and a focus on learning and continuous improvement
Servant leadership - A leadership philosophy where the primary aim of the individual in charge is to prioritize the needs of their team members, fostering their development and performance, rather than focusing on personal gain or traditional hierarchical authority
Shared leadership - A leadership style that broadly distributes responsibility, allowing individuals within a team or organization to lead each other
Situational leadership - A leadership model where effective leaders adapt their style to each situation, recognizing that no single approach is universally appropriate
Transformational leadership - A leadership style in which leaders encourage, inspire, and motivate employees to innovate and create change that will help grow and shape the future success of the company
Two-factor theory - A theory developed by psychologist Frederick Herzberg, it posits that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are influenced by separate sets of factors, known as motivators and hygiene factors, which act independently of each other
Theory X and Theory Y - The theories of human work motivation and management developed by Douglas McGregor
Technical Practices
Feature Toggles - A powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code
Blue-Green Deployment - A technique that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical production environments called Blue and Green
Canary Release - A technique to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure
Everything as code - A software development practice that seeks to apply the same principles of version control, testing, and deployment to enhance maintainability and scalability of all aspects of the development lifecycle, including networking infrastructure, documentation, and configuration
semantic-release - A fully automated version management and package publishing tool that determines the next version number, generates release notes, and publishes the package based on formalized commit messages
Release Please - A tool that automates changelog generation, the creation of GitHub releases, and version bumps for your projects based on Conventional Commits
GoReleaser - A release automation tool for Go projects
Changesets - A tool to manage versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos
Orthogonality and DRY principle - The principle that every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system
Separation of concerns - A design principle for separating a computer program into distinct sections
Design by Contract - An approach for designing software that prescribes formal, precise and verifiable interface specifications for software components
Law of Demeter - A design guideline for developing software, particularly object-oriented programs
SOLID - The principle of OOD - A mnemonic acronym for five design principles intended to make object-oriented designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable
Single responsibility
Open–closed
Liskov substitution
Interface segregation
Dependency inversion
The Reactive Manifesto - A coherent approach to systems architecture where applications are responsive, resilient, elastic and message driven
Unix philosophy - A set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to software development
KISS principle - A design principle which states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated
Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming - A set of rules about where to focus optimization efforts, emphasizing measurement and the importance of data structures
The Zen of Python - A collection of 19 guiding principles for writing computer programs that influence the design of the Python programming language
The twelve-factor app - A methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms
Software design pattern - A general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design
Entity–control–boundary - An architectural pattern used in software design and analysis that helps in structuring the responsibilities of classes in an object-oriented system
Fluent interface - A method for designing object-oriented APIs based on method chaining with the goal of making the readability of the source code close to that of ordinary written prose
Model-view-controller pattern - A software design pattern commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements
Dependency injection - A design pattern in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it depends on
Three-tier architecture - A client–server architecture in which presentation, application processing, and data management functions are logically separated
Microservices architecture - An approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms
Event-driven architecture - A software architecture paradigm promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events
Resource-oriented architecture - A style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software in the form of a network of resources
Background processing - The execution of tasks in the background, allowing the main application to remain responsive
System - A group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole
Systems architecture - The conceptual model that defines the structure, behavior, and more views of a system
4+1 architectural view model - A view model used for "describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views"
The C4 model - An easy to learn, developer friendly approach to software architecture diagramming
UML - The graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system
Conway's law - An adage stating that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
Requirements analysis - The process of determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders
Requirement - A documented need of what a product or service should be or do
Non-functional requirement - A requirement that specifies criteria that can be used to judge the operation of a system, rather than specific behaviors
Flowchart - A type of diagram that represents a workflow or process
Domain-driven design - A major software design approach, focusing on modeling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's experts
Object-oriented analysis and design - A technical approach for analyzing and designing an application, system, or business by applying object-oriented programming, as well as using visual modeling throughout the software development process
Use case - A list of actions or event steps typically defining the interactions between a role (known in the Unified Modeling Language as an actor) and a system to achieve a goal
Ontology - A representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that substantiate one, many or all domains of discourse
Semantic network - A knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network
Semantic Web - An extension of the World Wide Web that allows Internet data to be machine-readable through standards set by the W3C, enabling automated agents to process information more intelligently
Database design - The organization of data according to a database model
Project management - The process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints
Critical chain project management - A method of planning and managing projects that emphasizes the resources (people, equipment, physical space) required to execute project tasks
Gantt Chart - A bar chart illustrating a project schedule, displaying tasks on the vertical axis and time intervals on the horizontal axis, with bar widths indicating activity durations and often showing task dependencies
Work breakdown structure - A deliverable-oriented breakdown of a project into smaller components
RACI matrix - A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)... describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
Software development effort estimation - The process of predicting the most realistic amount of effort (expressed in terms of person-hours or money) required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy input
Hofstadter's law - A self-referential adage about the difficulty of accurately estimating the time required to complete complex tasks
Three-point estimation - A technique used in project management to estimate the likely duration or cost of an activity
Planning poker - A consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used for timeboxing in Agile principles
Systems development life cycle (SDLC) - A conceptual model used in project management that describes the stages involved in an information system development project
Prioritization - The activity that arranges items or activities in order of urgency
RICE - A simple scoring system for product prioritization that stands for Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort
Kano model - A theory for product development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Noriaki Kano
MoSCoW method - A prioritization technique used in management, business analysis, project management, and software development
Stakeholder management - The process of identifying individuals or groups that are affected by a project or business venture, understanding their interests and concerns, and managing their expectations and influence
Tools
Issue Tracking Systems
Jira - A software application used for issue tracking and project management that helps teams plan, assign, track, report, and manage work
JiraCLI - An interactive command line tool for Atlassian Jira that will help you avoid Jira UI to some extent
Asana - The platform for human and AI collaboration that helps teams coordinate work and keep projects moving
Fizzy - A modern spin on kanban for tracking anything such as bugs, issues, ideas, and small projects
GitLab Issue Board - A user interface that displays issues in columns that correspond to their workflow statuses
GitLab Service Desk - A feature that enables you to connect with users through email, without requiring them to have a GitLab account
Azure Boards - A service that provides a customizable platform for managing work items, allowing teams to collaborate effectively and streamline their workflow
GitHub Issues - A tracking tool that helps you manage your work on GitHub
Redmine - A free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool
Chat Systems
Slack - A channel-based messaging platform where people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work
Mattermost - An open source collaboration platform for developers, offering secure messaging, project management, and workflow orchestration
Discord - A free voice, video, and text chat app that's used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends
ISO/IEC 12207 (Software life cycle processes) - The international standard for software lifecycle processes that defines all the processes required for developing and maintaining software systems
ISO/IEC 15504 (Process assessment) - A set of technical standards documents for the computer software development process and related business management functions
Product management - The business process of planning, developing, launching, and managing a product or service
Lean startup - A methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable
Crowdfunding - The practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet
Business model - The rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts
Direct-to-consumer - A business model of selling products directly to customers and thereby bypassing any third-party retailers, wholesalers, or intermediaries
Subscription business model - A business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service
Business model canvas - A strategic management template for developing new or documenting existing business models
Lean Canvas - A one-page business modeling tool for entrepreneurs to quickly outline their business idea
IT service management - The activities that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control information technology (IT) services offered to customers
Tools
Linear - A purposeful tool for product development, featuring issues, cycles, and product roadmaps
Aha! - A suite of product development software that helps teams build and market products customers love
ServiceNow - A cloud-based, AI-powered platform for digital workflows that connects people, functions, and systems across the enterprise
Related Standards
ISO/IEC 20000 (Service management) - The international standard for IT service management that specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a service management system
Goal setting - The process of developing an action plan designed to motivate and guide a person or group toward a goal
SMART goals - A mnemonic acronym, used to guide in the setting of objectives or goals, for example in project management, employee-performance management and personal development
Specific: Targeting a particular area for improvement
Measurable: Quantifying, or at least suggesting, an indicator of progress
Assignable: Defining responsibility clearly
Realistic: Outlining attainable results with available resources
Time-related: Including a timeline for expected results
FAST goals - A framework for goals that are Frequently discussed, Ambitious in scope, Specific in metrics, and Transparent for everyone to see
GROW model - A simple method for goal setting and problem solving
OKRs - A goal-setting framework used by individuals, teams, and organizations to define measurable goals and track their outcomes
KPIs - A type of performance measurement used to evaluate the success of an organization or of a particular activity (such as projects, programs, products and other initiatives) in which it engages
Goodhart's law - An adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Performance Measurement
Net Promoter Score - A market research metric that is based on a single survey question asking respondents to rate the likelihood that they would recommend a company, product, or a service to a friend or colleague
Rubric - A scoring tool used to evaluate the quality of responses
SPACE framework - A framework that provides a way to think about developer productivity in a more holistic way, encompassing Satisfaction and well-being, Performance, Activity, Communication and collaboration, and Efficiency and flow
The Four Keys of DORA - A set of metrics used to measure DevOps performance, consisting of Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Time to Restore Service
Enterprise architecture - A well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a comprehensive approach at all times, for the successful development and execution of strategy
TOGAF standard - A proven Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency
Zachman Framework - An ontology – a theory of the existence of a structured set of essential components of an object
ArchiMate - An open and independent modelling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms
Archi - A free, open source, cross-platform tool and editor to create ArchiMate models
Enterprise resource planning - The integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology
Customer relationship management - A strategic process that organizations use to manage, analyze, and improve their interactions with customers
EspoCRM - An open-source web application for managing and evaluating all company relationships
HubSpot - A customer platform that helps businesses grow by connecting their marketing, sales, and service tools to a shared database
Salesforce - A customer relationship management solution that brings companies and customers together, providing one integrated CRM platform for all departments
SuiteCRM - A free and open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solution providing a 360-degree view of customers and business
Supply chain management - The management of the flow of goods and services, between businesses and locations, including the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption
Human resource management - The strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage
Contract management - The process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk
E-commerce - The activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet
Shopify - A Canadian multinational e-commerce company that provides a proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems
SAP ERP - A comprehensive software system that streamlines processes, improves productivity, and provides real-time insights across your entire organization
Odoo - A suite of open source business applications covering areas such as CRM, ERP, accounting, and more
ERPNext - A 100% open-source ERP with a modern, comprehensive, and user-friendly enterprise resource planning solution
Enterprise modeling - The process of building models of whole or part of an enterprise with process models, data models, resource models and or new ontologies
BPMN- A graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram, providing a standard comprehensible to business users yet representing complex process semantics for technical users
SysML - A general-purpose graphical modeling language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and verifying complex systems that may include hardware, software, information, personnel, procedures, and facilities
Eclipse Capella - A powerful and extensible MBSE software tool that leverages a field-proven language and method to successfully design the architecture of complex systems
Business process change management
Organizational structure - A system that outlines how certain activities are directed in order to achieve the goals of an organization
Kotter's 8-step change model - A set of tools and strategies designed to help organizations effectively implement and sustain change
Prosci ADKAR Model - A goal-oriented change management model that guides individual and organizational change
MECE principle - The grouping principle for separating a set of items into subsets that are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE)
SWOT analysis - A decision-making technique used in strategic planning and management that identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization or project
PEST analysis - A framework of external macro-environmental factors (political, economic, social and technological) used in strategic management and market research
Porter's five forces analysis - A method of analyzing the competitive environment of a business, rooted in industrial organization economics, that identifies five forces determining competitive intensity and industry attractiveness
Business intelligence and analysis tools
Tableau - The visual analytics platform that helps people see, understand, and act on data to solve problems
Metabase - The querying and visualization layer for your database, made to fit startup's production DB to massive data warehouses
Power BI - A unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence
DAX - A programming language that is used throughout Microsoft Power BI for creating calculated columns, measures, and custom tables
Amazon QuickSight - A scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud
Marketing - A process of acquiring, satisfying, and retaining customers, often involving creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for various stakeholders
SEO - The process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines
Google Search Central - The home for everything you need to help users find your site on Google Search
Marketing mix - A foundation model for businesses, historically centered around product, price, place, and promotion
Card sorting - A method used to help design or evaluate the information architecture of a site
Fear of missing out (FOMO) - The feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know about or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life better
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) - A manipulative propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults
Tag management
Google Tag Manager - A tag management system that allows you to quickly and easily update measurement codes and related code fragments known as tags on your website or mobile app
Analytics tools
Google Analytics - The go-to platform for millions of website and app owners seeking to gain a deeper understanding of their website and app performance
Plausible - Intuitive, lightweight and open source web analytics
Umami - A simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
Ackee - Self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool for those who care about privacy
User experience research
A/B testing - A way to compare multiple versions of a single variable, for example by testing a subject's response to variant A against variant B, and determining which of the variants is more effective
Diary studies - A research method in which people record their experiences and activities over time
Advertising
Indicators
Click through rate - The ratio of users who click on a specific link to the number of total users who view a page, email, or advertisement
Conversion rate - The percentage of users who take a desired action
Platforms
Google Ads - An online advertising platform where advertisers bid to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, or videos to web users
Google AdSence - A program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience
Experiment platform
Optimizely - A leading digital experience platform (DXP) that provides a single, unified platform that offers you the scalability and security you need to drive your business into the future
Email Distribution
listmonk - Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
BillionMail - An open-source MailServer and email marketing solution that is fully self-hosted and dev-friendly
Concepts and Frameworks
Brand - A name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's goods or service from those of other sellers
Customer experience - A customer's cognitive, emotional, sensory, and behavioral responses during all stages of interaction with a product or service
Customer service - The assistance and advice provided by a company to those who buy or use its products or services, either in person or remotely
Design thinking - The set of cognitive, strategic and practical processes by which design concepts are developed
User experience - A person's emotions and attitudes about using a particular product, system or service
Value chain - A progression of activities that a business or firm performs in order to deliver goods and services of value to an end customer.
Persona - A fictional character created to represent a user type relationship
Tools for Ideation
Affinity diagram - A business tool used to organize ideas and data
Brainstorming - A group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members
SCAMPER - A structured way of assisting students to think out of the box and enhance their knowledge
AI-powered Document Generation
Gamma - A new medium for presenting ideas, powered by AI
Risk management - The identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities
Business continuity planning - The process an organization undergoes to create a prevention and recovery system from potential threats such as natural disasters or cyber-attacks
IT disaster recovery - The process of resuming normal IT operations after a disruptive event, such as a natural disaster, cyberattack, or equipment failure
ISO 22301 (Business continuity management systems) - The international standard for business continuity management systems that specifies requirements to protect against, respond to, and recover from disruptive incidents
Project risk management - The process of identifying, analyzing, and then responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to help the project remain on track and meet its goal
Financial risk management - The practice of protecting economic value in a firm by managing exposure to financial risk - principally credit risk and market risk, as well as some aspects of operational risk
ISO 31000 (Risk management) - A set of international standards for risk management that provides a consistent vocabulary and methodology for assessing and managing risk
Claude Cowork - An agentic AI system for knowledge work that autonomously plans and executes multi-step tasks across files, documents, and web applications directly on your computer
OpenClaw - An open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent runtime that acts as a "Local OS for AI" by automating tasks across applications and platforms
claw-empire - A local-first AI agent office simulator that orchestrates CLI, OAuth, and API-connected agents as a virtual autonomous company
OpenWebUI - An extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline
Amazon Q Business - A generative AI-powered assistant for enterprises to find information, gain insights, and take action at work, integrating with company data and applications
Microsoft 365 Copilot - An AI assistant for work that supercharges productivity and creativity, reengineers business processes, and empowers you to securely transform your business into an AI-powered organization
Notion AI - An integrated AI assistant for workspaces that provides writing assistance, workspace Q&A, and autonomous agents for task automation
Gemini for Google Workspace - An AI-powered assistant for Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides that helps you write, visualize, and organize your work across the platform
Claude for Enterprise - A secure and scalable way for organizations to use AI with administrative controls, single sign-on (SSO), and role-based access to Claude's latest models
ChatGPT Enterprise - An enterprise-grade AI assistant with unlimited higher-speed access to GPT-4, longer context windows, and advanced data analysis capabilities
Glean - An AI-powered search and assistant for the enterprise that connects to all of your company's apps and data to find exactly what you need
Atlas - A bespoke AI for customer support that delivers fast, accurate, and measurable support tailored to tools and workflows
n8n - A fair-code licensed workflow automation tool that combines AI capabilities with business process automation
Microsoft Power Automate - An end-to-end automation solution built for enterprise to optimize business processes
Zapier - A tool that allows you to connect your apps and automate workflows without any coding knowledge
Blog-Watcher - A Python-based monitoring tool for tracking updates on blog websites that detects new posts and content changes, then sends Slack notifications when blogs are updated
Dify - An open-source LLM app development platform
Microsoft Copilot Studio - A graphical low-code tool for creating and maintaining copilots using generative AI and a library of prebuilt connectors and actions
Open Source Initiative - A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software and communities
Major Public Licenses
MIT - A permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s
BSD - A family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software
Apache - A permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), allowing users to use, distribute, and modify software without concern for royalties
GPL - A series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study, share, and modify the software
LGPL - A free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under it into their own (even proprietary) software without being required to release the source code of their own components
AGPL - A free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure that if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there
SSPL - A strong copyleft software license that mandates that any entity offering the licensed software as a service must release the complete source code of the entire service
Principles & Adages
Linus's law - The assertion that 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow', which is a key principle in open source development
Source Repositories
GitHub - The AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
GitLab.com - The DevSecOps Platform that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development
The Agent Skills Directory - An open agent skills ecosystem providing reusable capabilities for AI agents
Anthropic Agent Skills - A public repository containing Anthropic's implementation of skills for Claude, including instructions, scripts, and resources that enable specialized tasks and repeatable workflows
ClawHub - A community-driven marketplace and platform for discovering and sharing AI agent tools, skills, and plugins, hosting tens of thousands of community-created resources for building AI agents
SkillsMP (Skills Management Platform) - A community-driven marketplace designed for discovering and sharing modular AI agent capabilities based on the open SKILL.md standard
OpenClaw Skills - The largest open-source registry for community-driven AI tools designed for platforms like Claude Code and Cursor
MCP (Model Context Protocol) Registries
Official MCP Registry- A collection of official reference MCP server implementations maintained by the Model Context Protocol organization
MCP Registry - A searchable web directory of published MCP servers
Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges
Open Data Commons - The home of a set of legal tools and licenses to help you publish, provide and use open data
Open Data Registries
Hugging Face Hub - A platform with over 900k models, 200k datasets, and 300k demos in which people can easily collaborate in their ML workflows
Data.gov - The home of the U.S. Government’s open data
Kaggle - The world's largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals
Registry of Open Data on AWS - A service that makes it easy for people to find datasets that are publicly available through AWS services
OpenML - An open, collaborative, frictionless, and automated machine learning environment
OpenStreetMap - A map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license
Data Search Engines
Google Dataset search - A search engine that enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web
Linux Foundation - A non-profit organization that supports, protects, and standardizes Linux by providing a neutral, trusted hub for developers to code, manage, and scale open technology projects
Apache Software Foundation - A nonprofit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server
Eclipse Foundation - A provider of a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation for a global community of individuals and organizations
Technology-Specific Foundations
OpenJS Foundation - The neutral home for more than 40 open source projects, including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, and webpack
Rust Foundation - An independent non-profit organization dedicated to stewarding and growing the Rust programming language and ecosystem
Cloud Native Computing Foundation - An open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native computing universal and sustainable
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) - A neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects
Web & Data Standards
World Wide Web Consortium - An international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web
WHATWG - A community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies
The Open Group - A global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards
Ethical & Digital Rights
Free Software Foundation - A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom
Community Governance & Codes of Conduct
Debian Constitution - A document that describes the structure of organisation for decision-making in the Debian Project
Ubuntu Code of Conduct - A set of guidelines that covers behavior as a member of the Ubuntu Community