Topic 48 | The Essence of Agility |
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Agile is an adjective: it's how you do something. You can be an agile developer. You can be on a team that adopts agile practices, a team that responds to change and setbacks with agility. Agility is your style, not you.
| Tip 83 | Agile Is Not a Noun; Agile Is How You Do Things |
As we write this, almost 20 years after the inception of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development,[73] we see many, many developers successfully applying its values. We see many fantastic teams who find ways to take these values and use them to guide what they do, and how they change what they do.
But we also see another side of ...
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