Agile manifesto

Last updated Jun 5, 2023

Values of the Agile manifesto:

• Individuals and interactions, over processes and tools
• Working software, over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change, over following a plan

Categories:

• Value delivery
• Business collaboration
• Team dynamics and culture
• Retrospective and continuous learning

Value delivery

Delivering the work as quickly as possible to get feedback and mitigate time risk.

• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
• Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference for the shorter timescale
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Simplify - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
  • Simplify allows a team to work on the things that matter most.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.

Collaborating with your customers helps the team get critical business information immediately, allowing them to adjust and adapt to any new information.

• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

Create an effective team culture that is inclusive, supportive, and empowering.

• Build projects around motivated individuals. give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
• Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

Make sure your team:

• Is motivated to do the right thing
• Feels trusted to do the right thing
• Has the resources and space to work closely together on their goals

Strive to continuously learn and adapt to what’s working and what’s not.

• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.