Agility
· Agility is ability to move quickly and easily.
· It is a property consisting of quickness, lightness, & ease of movement;
· The ability to create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent global business environment
· The ability to quickly reprioritize use of resources when requirements, technology, and knowledge shift
· A very fast response to sudden market changes and emerging threats by intensive customer interaction
· Use of evolutionary, incremental, and iterative delivery to converge on an optimal customer solution
Agile Process
· Agile software process addresses few assumptions
o Difficulty in predicting changes of requirements and customer priorities.
o For many types of software; design and construction are interleaved (mixed).
o Analysis, design, construction and testing are not as predictable as we might like.
· An agile process must be adaptable
· Requires customer feedback
Agility Principles
· Highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early & continuous delivery if software
· Welcome changing requirements
· Deliver working software frequently
· Business people and developers must work together
· Build projects around motivated individuals
· Emphasize face-to-face conversation
· Working software is the measure of progress
· Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
· Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work done
· The best designs emerge from self-organizing teams
· The team tunes and adjusts its behavior to become more effective
