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During one of my agile seminars, I ask people “What is Agile?” I bring up a list that includes, “Agile is a methodology,” “Agile is a process,” “Agile is a set of practices,” and “Agile is a set of tools.” I see a lot of heads nodding in the affirmative, believing that some or all of these are what Agile is. Then I cross them all out and bring up a single line that says, “Agile is a set of values and principles.” Some have an aha! moment.
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“Principles behind the Agile Manifesto” agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
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Don Wells. Rules of Extreme Programming (1999). www.extremeprogramming.org/rules.html
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Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
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Moreira, M.E. (2013). Foundations of Agile. In: Being Agile. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5840-7_6
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