The Agile Principles and Mindset

The Agile Manifesto

• Values 
  

• Principles 
  

Rationale & benefits of Agile

• History of Agile 
  

• Empirical and defined processes 
  

• The pillars of the empirical process 
  

• The waterfall approach 
  

• Working with uncertainty and volatility 
  

• Agile myths 
  

• Empirical models for improvement and change 
  

• Business culture and Agile 
  

• The lifecycle of product development 
  

Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools

• Motivated and talented individuals 
  

• Emergent design from self-organising teams 
  

Working systems over comprehensive documentation

• Satisfy the customer with continuous delivery of value 
  

• Deliver working systems frequently 
  

• Working systems as a measure of progress 
  

• Technical excellence and good design
  

Customer collaboration over contract negotiations

• Business people and developers must work together 
  

• Face-to-face communications 
  

• Reflect and adjust regularly 
  

Responding to change over following a plan 

• Embrace change 
  

• Sustainable pace 
  

• Simplicity – The art of maximising the amount of work not done 
  

Common Agile roles

• The role of the customer 
  

• The role of the team 
  

• The role of the Agile leader 
  

• The role of stakeholders 
  

Common Agile techniques

• User stories 
  

• Acceptance criteria and scenarios 
  

• MoSCoW prioritisation 
  

• Estimation using story points 
  

• Agile quality assurance and testing 
  

Common Agile practices 

• Short feedback loops 
  

• Focus on quality 
  

• Emergent documentation 
  

• Visual boards 
  

• Retrospectives 
  

• Continuous improvement 
  

Relevant methods and approaches for Agile teams

• Scrum 
  

• XP 
  

• Kanban 
  

• Lean