Agile Methodology: Overview

  1. Includes practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, stand-ups, planning sessions, and sprints
  2. Brings out all the good charactristics in group development

The 12 Principles

  1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
  2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
  3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
  4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
  5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
  6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
  7. Working software is the primary measure of progress!!!
  8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
  9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
  10. Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
  11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
  12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Key Vocab

Sprint - period of time that a team uses to plan and execute work. This includes planning, research, development, deployment, and test.

Creativity - in the context of education and a workplace, creativity presents itself as how you approach tasks and look for solutions to problems.

Critical thinking - being able to look at things more deeply and understand things such as ways to improve something.

Communication - includes verbal (how you address an audience in terms they can understand), listening (learning and understanding), writing, and technological communication skills.

Researching - can include analyzing information, brainstorming solutions, extracting information from data, gathering information, setting goals, and solving problems.