The Agile Manifesto advocates incremental delivery using adaptive planning. In this section, we contrast and compare this approach with the previously more traditional approach of Waterfall delivery/predictive planning.
In the following section, we'll look at both approaches and some of the impacts on how we deliver software. Before we launch into the detail, here's a quick comparison of the two approaches:
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