Agile From First Principles

8 AGILE PRACTICES

While the Manifesto tells us what we want to achieve, it doesn’t tell us how to get there

The Agile Manifesto takes 68 words to describe the four values, and a further 186 for the principles behind them. While admirably simple, as we emphasise throughout this book it is hard to apply consistently and easy to misunderstand and misuse.

As Agile grew in popularity, a number of methods, frameworks, approaches and books that helped people put Agile into practice also grew in popularity. Many of these predate the Manifesto and some even influenced it. Over the following 20 years, more have emerged and evolved.

A method is simply a collection of practices, techniques and patterns packaged into something that is more approachable ...