Agile From First Principles

6 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN AGILE

Several core concepts emerge from the values and principles; understanding and applying them is crucial

When considering the manifesto values and principles, we can identify a number of key themes and fundamental concepts that run through them. This chapter introduces and explains those fundamental concepts that we will frequently refer back to throughout the book. They are:

• empiricism;
• the three pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation;
• continuous improvement and feedback;
• Lean approaches and the wastes of Lean;
• incremental and iterative delivery;
• customer centricity;
• self-organising, empowered teams.

This chapter will help you to understand these fundamental concepts that, together with a deep ...