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Everything about Agile software development

Umbrella term for certain approaches to software development

Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners, in 2001. As documented in their Manifesto for Agile Software Development, the practitioners value:Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Agile software developmentA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software developmentInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The art of agile developmentThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: A decade of agile methodologies: Towards explaining agile software developmentCited 806 times
  5. Go sideways: Scrum (project management)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Software development processA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Values and principles
  3. Overview
  4. Philosophy
  5. Methods
  6. Experience and adoption challenges
  7. Agile management
  8. Criticism
  9. Adoption Statistics

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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