Agile Fragile

At first, Jason looks a bit awkward among the other team members, but he soon becomes engrossed in a conversation with Ash about the latest open source version control systems.

The rest of the team members are talking about different things, ranging from holidays to ways of making work more fun and interesting.

“That’s one of the main reasons I prefer agile to other project methodologies,” says William. “It has fun built into many of its practices. You’ve got things like estimation poker and the release and sprint planning game. Then there are all the different kinds of retrospectives you can run to keep the team fresh and motivated about continuous improvement.”

“If that’s true, then why did we stop applying agile to the ...

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