Agile Manifesto

• While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan
• Principles
  • Highest priority is to satisfy the customer
    • through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
  • Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
    • Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage
  • Deliver working software frequently
    • from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
  • Business people and developers must work together
    • daily throughout the project
  • Build projects around motivated individuals
    • Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done
  • Face-to-face conversation
    • the most efficient & effective method of conveying info to & within a development team
  • Working software is the primary measure of progress
  • Agile processes promote sustainable development
    • The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
    • enhances agility
  • Simplicity
    • -the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential
  • Self-organizing teams
    • the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from them
  • At regular intervals
    • the team reflects on how to become more effective, tunes & adjusts its behavior accordingly