Ask just about any technical team nowadays and they’ll claim they’re using some flavor of Agile practices in lieu of the debunked Waterfall method. Teams using Scrum may engage in story point poker-playing, a method of estimating the level of effort of stories. Or they may actually relinquish their chairs for daily standup meetings. The corniness of Scrum aside, there’s no arguing that the Agile Manifesto is rock solid. Still, the technical landscape is dotted with software releases that don’t cut the mustard, from quality problems to software that fails to effectively address customers’ most significant pain points.
Perhaps the most important tenet of the Agile Manifesto is to build working software one piece ...
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