Agile development

The Manifesto of Agile Software Development (agilemanifesto.org) is a short list of principles written in 2001 by 17 developers to help others with their combined experience. It has 4 core values:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  Self-organization and motivation are important, as are interactions like co-location and pair programming.

• Working software over comprehensive documentation
  Working software is more useful and welcome than just presenting documents to clients in meetings.

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  Requirements cannot be fully collected at the beginning of the software development cycle, therefore continuous customer or stakeholder involvement is very important.

• Responding to change over following a plan
  Agile methods are focused on quick responses to change and continuous development.

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