Chapter 2. How to Be Agile
What does it mean to “be agile”?
The answer is more complicated than you might think. Agile development isn’t a specific process you can follow. No team practices the Agile method. There’s no such thing.
Agile development is a philosophy. It’s a way of thinking about software development. The canonical description of this way of thinking is the Agile Manifesto, a collection of 4 values (Figure 2-1) and 12 principles (Figure 2-2).
To “be agile,” you need to put the agile values and principles into practice.
Figure 2-1. Agile values
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