Agile Basics for CAPM Exam

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The Agile Manifesto was originally released in February 2001 to create a new way of managing software development. A group of leading software developers wrote the manifesto on a retreat in Utah, where they had met to discuss industry problems and potential solutions.

This group understood that the software industry needed a better, quicker way to get products to market. Their goal was to develop new methods for changing a product and project that would not impact the cost or delay the production schedule.

They determined that dividing a project into shorter iterations would allow for faster development and testing. Reviews (called sprint retrospectives) would take place at the end of every iteration, and changes could then be made without having to wait for the end product.

The Agile Manifesto was initially drafted as a solution for software development management, but the Agile methodology has since grown to encompass projects across various industries and businesses.

The Agile Manifesto is a document that identifies four key values and 12 principles that its authors believe software developers should use to guide their work.

The four values of the Agile Manifesto are:

1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

2. Working software over comprehensive documentation

3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

4. Responding to change over following a plan

AGILE PRINCIPLES

1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.

3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.

4. Business-people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need and trust them to get the job done.

6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.

8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.

10. Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.

11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Benefits of Agile

• Speed to market and risk mitigation

• Efficient and Face-to-Face Communication

• The principle of Co-Location

• Focus of Quality Software Development

• Daily Stand-up

Agile values, principles are the Mindset

Methodologies like Scrum or Kanban are actual “Doing” Agile

Agile - Value driven method

• Low criticality

• Requirements change often

• Small number of developers

• Culture that respond to change

Waterfall - Plan driven method

• High criticality

• Requirements do not change often

• Large number of developers

• Culture that demand direction

Terminologies

• Agile iteration

• Agile manifesto

• Agile mindset

• Agile software development

• Agile transformation

• Backlog

• Backlog refinement

• Burndown chart

• Burnup chart

• Continuous deployment

• Continuous integration

• Daily meeting

• Definition of done

• Epic

• Frequent releases

• Information radiators

• Kanban

• Kanban board

• MVP - Minimum viable product

• Personas

• Planning Poker

• Product backlog

• Product owner

• Retrospective

• Scrum

• Scrum master

• Sprint backlog

• Sprint planning

• Story mapping

• Team

• Timebox

• User stories

• Velocity

• XP - Extreme programming

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