Thoughtful questions behind Agile Principles

Welcome to the series on Principles behind the Agile Manifesto in which I shall raise some thought-provoking questions each principle intends to bring forward.

Principle #12: Is your team reflecting at regular intervals on how to be more effective, and then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly? 

Principle #11: Are the best architectures, requirements, and designs within your organization emerging from your self-organizing teams? 

Principle #10: Are you practicing the essential skill of simplicity? And are you mastering the art of maximizing the amount of work not done? 

Principle #09: Is your team and organization continuously giving attention to technical excellence and good design and does that enhance agility?

Principle #08: Are your sponsors, developers, and users able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely and does your organization adopt agile processes to promote sustainable development?

Principle #07: Does your organization and its team consider working software as the primary measure of progress?

Principle #06: Does your org and its dev team consider face-to-face com as the most efficient and effective method of conveying info to and within the dev team?

Principle #05:

Principle #04: Are the business people and developers within your organization working together daily throughout the project?

Principle #03: Is your organization delivering working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale?

Principle #02: Is your organization welcoming change in requirement, even late in development, for the customer's competitive advantage?

Principle #01: Is your organization's highest priority to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software?