Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Agile Zealot's Handbook

Simon Baker from Agile in Action has updated his Zealot's Handbook. Here's what it says:

VALUE
IF you don't repeatedly release software
into a production environment
at least once every month
that realizes business value
for a real customer...

QUALITY
IF you're not paying constant attention to technical excellence
with simple, effective, incremental design
driven by continuous, repeatable automated testing
with at least 95% coverage...

LEARNING
IF you're not learning
by inspecting and reflecting every iteration
and you're not re-planning, adapting and improving
all of the time based on what you've learned...

TEAM
IF your team is not empowered to self-organize and be creative,
does not sit together and engage in face-to-face communication,
does not include your customer
and all the necessary skills to make its own decisions and take immediate action...

THEN YOU HAVE COMPROMISED YOUR AGILITY


Very nice! Short and sweet and incorporates all part of Agile. Thanks for the update Simon!

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