The Agile Fundamentals
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An Introduction to The Agile Fundamentals
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This article provides an ‘Introduction to the Agile Fundamentals’ and looks to discuss the Key points within the Agile Values and Principles.
The Agile Fundamentals
Keep your Stakeholders Involved. Your stakeholders and what they need are the reason for the development in the first place.
The traditional approach of gathering requirements, is going away for the whole development cycle, only to return when you want the customers to sign off. This is no longer a recommended practice is many industries.
This applies to all forms of production: where “customer-driven design” is used in bring new products to market from household appliances to motor vehicles. These ideas do not always come from the customer, sometimes concepts or prototypes are built and promoted to gauge the response for the market.
In agile development, customers are involved and committed to the project. This is emphasized in the Agile Manifesto both as a value and as a principle. Customers are co-opted from the business for the duration of the project, offering insights, assessing what is delivered and agreeing on completion.
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The Agile Fundamentals
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User Stories Applied
A 59 Seconds Agile Book Review
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn is one of our favourite books on Agile User Stories. The book starts with an overview into user stories, and details what a user story is and the different aspects of them. He then discusses how to go about writing a user story, and provides details of the INVEST criteria that can be used to determine if the story is meeting all of its objectives. Next Mike gives an in depth discussion of who user stories are written for and where to begin when gathering the details for them. The book then discusses acceptance testing user stories, including how to go about specifying these criteria and the responsibilities of the development team and customers during this process.
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The Agile Frameworks
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Agile Scrum Master Training Course
Our Favourite Agile Books
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