Agile Values and Principles

Agile Manifesto

Definition of Agile Manifesto. The Agile Manifesto is a document that sets out the key values and principles behind the Agile philosophy and serves to help development teams work more efficiently and sustainably.

Value of Agile Manifesto:

Individuals and interactions?over processes and tools:

• Individuals and interactions are most important.
• Processes and tools will be needed on projects.
• Projects are completed by people not processes and tools.
• Agile projects are people driven.
• Agile helps team members interact through techniques like co-location and daily stand-up meetings.

Working software?over comprehensive documentation:

• Documentation does not demonstrate real progress or value
• A working software or solution is an effective measure of progress that a business can see and provide feedback on.
• Agile project need to deliver value.

Customer collaboration?over contract negotiation:

• Organizations need to be flexible and accommodating rather than following the
• definitions of contracts.
• Contracts are often rigid and uncooperative
• Constant collaboration with customers to accommodate changes are more important than adhering to formal contracts.
• Agile contracts must accommodate change.

Responding to change?over following a plan:

• Agile emphasizes responding to change than being constrained by a detailed plan.
• It is recommended to bring the project back on track by responding to change and refining the plan instead of sticking to the original plan.
• Agile encourages teams to spend more time working than creating project plans.

Principles of Agile Manifesto:

1. Customer satisfaction through early and continuous software delivery?– Customers are happier when they receive working software at regular intervals, rather than waiting extended periods of time between releases.
2. Accommodate changing requirements throughout the development process?– The ability to avoid delays when a requirement or feature request changes.
3. Frequent delivery of working software?– Scrum accommodates this principle since the team operates in software sprints or iterations that ensure regular delivery of working software.
4. Collaboration between the business stakeholders and developers throughout the project?– Better decisions are made when the business and technical team are aligned.
5. Support, trust, and motivate the people involved?– Motivated teams are more likely to deliver their best work than unhappy teams.
6. Enable face-to-face interactions?– Communication is more successful when development teams are co-located.
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress?– Delivering functional software to the customer is the ultimate factor that measures progress.
8. Agile processes to support a consistent development pace?–?Teams establish a repeatable and maintainable speed at which they can deliver working software, and they repeat it with each release.
9. Attention to technical detail and design enhances agility?– The right skills and good design ensures the team can maintain the pace, constantly improve the product, and sustain change.
10. Simplicity?– Develop just enough to get the job done for right now.
11. Self-organizing teams encourage great architectures, requirements, and designs?– Skilled and motivated team members who have decision-making power, take ownership, communicate regularly with other team members, and share ideas that deliver quality products.
12. Regular reflections on how to become more effective?– Self-improvement, process improvement, advancing skills, and techniques help team members work more efficiently.

The intention of Agile is to align development with business needs, and the success of Agile is apparent. Agile projects are customer focused and encourage customer guidance and participation. As a result, Agile has grown to be an overarching view of software development throughout the software industry and an industry all by itself.