Agility

Values

• Individuals and Interactions => over processes and tools
• Working Software => over comprehensive documentation
• Customer Collaboration => over contract negotiation
• Responding to change => over following a plan

Principles

• Satisfy the client is the priority
• Welcome changes
• Deliver production code often
• Constant communication between team and client
• Build project around motivated people
• Interaction between individual is key
• Measure advancement in term of features done
• Sustainable and constant working pace
• Continuous attention to detail toward conception and quality
• Favor simplicity
• Auto-organised teams. People make decisions
• Adjust regularly to be more efficient

What?

• Is iterative and incremental
• Realize in the spirit of collaboration with minimal formalities
• Creates a product high in quality while fulfilling the client's demands

Processuses

• eXtreme Programming(XP)
• Dynamic Software Development Method(DSDM)
• Crystal
• Feature Driven Development(FDD)
• Lean Software Development
• Test Driven Development(TDD)
• Kanban
• SCRUM

Agile vs Structured?

• Formalism does not mean Discipline
• Documentation does not mean Communication
• Documentation does not mean Comprehension
• Rigueur does not mean Quality

The Goal of agility is to augment the level of client satisfaction while making the work of the developper easier