Agile

Agile, like Lean, is more of a culture than a process. Agile is defined by 4 values and 12 principles, telling what the 17 authors of the manifesto have discovered to be important when it comes to effective software development. In short, you could say it's about getting fast feedback and being technically and mentally prepared for changing direction. Some describe this in a negative tone as "you never know what you will get". We would say that it's more correct to say that we never know from the beginning what the user or customer needs so we have to use a process that makes it possible to learn and adjust along the way. Agile is a way of minimizing risk, the risk that the customers do no longer want what we originally thought they wanted. ...

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