5.1. Agile and Self-Adapting: Evolution

This chapter is quite long because our understanding of agile development has evolved a great deal since the writing of the agile manifesto.

At first, people asked, “What does agile development really mean?” Their answers revealed the many and interesting ways in which the message can be misconstrued (mistakes that continue to this day). Then the questions became: “Where is the sweet spot of agile, and what do you do outside of the sweet spot?” and “What is the role of a project manager in a hyper-agile project?”

We shall take a look here at these questions, along with how agile methodologies have evolved.

Also suitable for discussion is the way in which the agile approach gets applied outside software ...

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