Agile methodology is at the heart of today's iterative product evolution that is so much important for winning the customers and selling the services which customer never knew they needed. We needed to deliver features in drops to limited groups and understand the customer’s responses before building on further. The intuition improved into solid evidence of what customers are looking for directly from the behaviour observed from the initial versions of the software.
We needed a development process which is fast enough to respond to this changing scene of our understanding of customer needs.. we couldn’t have waited for months to bring the changes we needed today..
Yes. This is the best calibrated response software engineers can make to the evolving market space.. Agile process and the attitude which comes with it.. here is the manifesto of agile process. To me; those sound to be the key principles of winning not just in software industry, but pretty much every industry we can think of. Even better, they are in essence the success principles for professionals – to imbibe in their core practices and responses, practice them into work life and then epitomise that as the new age principles to new generation.
On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground�and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile Software Development Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened.
here below is the statement which emerged...
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
I think nothing can be more apt than those 4 bullets.. nothing can be better governing in helping organisations and individuals succeed in understanding the secret essence they need to develop for themselves.. below link for an initial read on the subject..
http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
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