What is Agile? Principles and Practices is the first chapter of a nine-chapter book entitled Head First Agile. I have completed reading and reviewing this chapter.
“In Head First Agile, you’ll learn all about the ideas behind agile and the straightforward practices that drive it. You’ll take deep dives into Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban, the most common real-world agile approaches today. … This book also has everything you need to get certified, with 100% coverage of the PMI-ACP® exam.”
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 generation 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!”
Topics covered in Chapter 1: What is Agile? Principle and Practices include the following:
- The new features sound great…
- …but things do’n always go as expected
- Agile to the rescue!
- Kate tries to hold a daily standup
- Different team members have different attitudes
- A better mindset makes the practice work better
- So what is agile, anyway?
- Scrum is the most common approach to agile
- The PMI-ACP certification can help you become more agile
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Gene Babon
Gene Babon is a team leader, project manager and web developer who is actively seeking next management-level opportunity. Learn more at Pick a lane. Keep driving.
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