CHAPTER 9: SELECTING THE RIGHT AGILE APPROACH FOR YOUR NEEDS

If you have determined that the nature of your department is reasonably suited to Agile approaches36 – and you have identified the projects where you want to begin using Agile approaches – then the next challenge is in deciding which of these approaches is best suited to the specific demands of your selected projects.

Chapter 4: Common Agile Methodologies at a Glance identified a number of Agile methodologies that have been successfully used in the IT industry over the past 20 years. Some of these approaches are used more commonly than others, most notably Scrum and XP (individually or combined). However, these approaches are more suited to project-based software development activities, ...

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