Project Management for Small Projects, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

16 Agile

“Agile is the ability to create and respond to change. It is a way of dealing with, and ultimately succeeding in, an uncertain and turbulent environment.”¹ It’s really about considering what’s going on in the environment that you’re in today, identifying what uncertainty you’re facing, and figuring out how you can adapt to that as you go along.² The one thing that separates agile from other approaches is that solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. “Agile is a mind-set based on a set of key values and principles designed to better enable collaborative work and deliver continuous value through ...