Sources & Definitions

This section serves as the reference glossary for AME3. Here you’ll find definitions of key concepts, methodologies, and terminology used throughout the framework, along with links to the authoritative sources that inform our approach.

Acronym AME3
AME3 on the shoulder of giants
A Plan Is Not a Strategy
Amazon Product Operating Model
Agile
AME3
Artificial Life
CEO
Build-Measure-Learn
Brooks's law
Complex Adaptive System
Complex System
Conway's law
Cynefin
Daily Scrum
Deduction
Climatic Patterns by Simon Wardley
Drive, by Dan Pink
Dunbar's number
Ecosystems
Empirical Product Control Loop
Empiricism
Doctrine by Simon Wardley
Enterprise Scrum
Field guide to managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis
Field-programmable photonic nonlinearity
Flight Levels
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Higher-Order System
How to organise your teams
Increment
Induction
Kanban
Claude Flow
Larman's Laws
Lean
LeSS
Life, Energy, and Entropy
Mike Beedle
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Nigel Scale
OODA Loop
Obeya
Open Ended Evolution
PDCA Cycle
Paul Watzlawick
People are hard, Code is easy
Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control
Projekt Lightspeed Der Weg zum BioNTech-Impfstoff - und zu einer Medizin von morgen
Projekt Lightspeed
DasScrumTeam
SAFe
ScALeD
Scaling Complex Systems by Building on Agile Frameworks with Hexi
Scrum
Scrum@Scale
Self-Adapting Language Models
Simon Wardley on Evolving Software Engeering Practices with Agentic AI
Spotify
Sprint
The Execution Trap
The Lean Startup
The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two
The New New Product Development Game
The Principles of Product Development Flow
The SAFe Delusion
Wardley Map
Wardley Mapping Loop compated with OODA
Wardley Mapping
Wardley Maps and Cynefin
Wardleys Doctrines Table
eXtreme Programming
it's always a people problem
Pair Programming
No plan survives first contact with the enemy
Overconfidence Bias
Planning Fallacy
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything
All models are wrong, but some are useful
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses
Stacey Matrix