This repository contains the source documentation for Golazo.
Golazo is a lightweight engineering operating model intended for teams that need to keep work moving without relying on constant meetings, heroics, or heavy process overhead. The material here is written for teams evaluating whether the approach is practical, what tradeoffs it introduces, and how to adopt it without overcomplicating local workflows.
If you would rather read the rendered site than the raw Markdown, use https://microsoft.github.io/golazo/.
The goal of this repository is to document the Golazo methodology clearly enough that a team can:
- understand the core practices and the reasoning behind them
- evaluate whether those practices fit its environment
- adopt the model with a shared vocabulary and a common baseline
- modify it later from an informed position rather than from first impressions
The repository is documentation-first. It is not a software product, sample implementation, or formal framework.
This repository is the canonical source for the published Golazo documentation. It is intended to be read both in GitHub and through the generated site.
The documents describe a specific way of working, but they should not be read as universal truth. Some recommendations will fit certain teams better than others. Where the guidance is prescriptive, that is usually because the process depends on internal consistency.
The site is generated from the Markdown content in this repository by using mkdocs.
Golazo draws from several well-established ideas in software delivery and product development, including the following books:
- "Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash" by Mary and Tom Poppendieck
- "The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development" by Donald G. Reinertsen
- "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business" by David J. Anderson
- "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" by Eric Ries
Golazo is not a direct restatement of any one of these sources. It is a practical application of these ideas shaped for small engineering teams.
See Contributing for more information.
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