As a framework, Essence can operate completely on its own or in tandem with existing frameworks, helping organizations engaged in greenfield development. Although it is an established framework, there remains space for improvement. We leverage Essence’s ability to serve as a common ground, allowing different practices to be composed in our methodology. An industry use case for automating the pre-sales business processes in real estate customer-relationship management is demonstrated by charting the journey of a real estate organization undertaking a development project. We demonstrate how to essentialize practices such as user story and microservices on top of Scrum, creating a method tailored to the development project that leverages Essence. The widespread use of the selected practices imbues the resulting method with versatility that could make it suitable for different industry/domain settings. Additionally, this exercise to compose practices into a method guided by Essence can be utilized in a much wider context, both from a practice-composition perspective and an industry/domain applicability perspective. This approach can be generalized as a blueprint for essentializing combinations of practices suited to a given context (for example, by selecting practices that address context-specific requirements) and composing them under the guidance of the Essence framework. This enables the development of a method that is sufficiently detailed and prescriptive to achieve the intended objectives across diverse industry and domain settings.