Summary of Agile
nuggetsoflearning • May 21, 2018
The principles of Agile can be applied to any team they are not exclusive to software development.
The Agile manifesto with its 12 principles was created back in 2001. Underpinning the concept is creating a learning culture which came out of the Toyota Production System. This was the Lean principle one of the foundations of Agile.
All of the 12 principles can be put into 3 main categories:-
- Clarity & Transparency Delivery – approaches to improve how teams understand their system of work
- Learning & Leaning – Approaches to improve and optimise team processes
- People focus – Approached to creating an autonomous and engaged culture
The set of principles increases the awareness of the team to different approaches that lead to improvement over time.
Clarity & Transparency Delivery
- Regular measurements & milestones
- Clear intent & continuing prioritisation – vision and goals
- Understand what is valuable – to the customer
- Visualised work – white boards
Learning & Leaning
- Minimise waste
- Repeating tasks to spot incremental changes
- Limit work in progress
- Short feedback loop
People focus
- Team effort and collective ownership
- Empowered to improve as a team
- Collaborative learning
- Driving process through people interaction
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Processes & systems lead to results
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