What is Agile?: principles and practices
It’s an exciting time to be agile! For the first time, our industry has found a real, sustainable way to solve problems that generations of software development teams have been struggling with. Agile teams use simple, straightforward practices that have been proven to work on real-life projects. But wait a minute...if agile is so great, why isn’t everyone doing it? It turns out that in the real world, a practice that works really well for one team causes serious problems for another team, and the difference is the team mindset. So get ready to change the way you think about your projects!
The new features sound great...
Meet Kate. She’s a project manager at a successful Silicon Valley startup. Her company builds software that’s used by video and music streaming services and internet radio stations to analyze audiences in real time and choose programming suggestions that make their viewers or listeners happy. And now Kate’s team has an opportunity to deliver something that will really help the company.
... but things don’t always go as expected
Kate’s discussion with the project team didn’t go nearly as well as she’d hoped. What’s she going to tell Ben?
Kate: So if we can get those new advanced audience analytics features into the next release, we’ll ...
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