Welcome to the Agile Zone. A site dedicated to providing links and information on agile software development.
We will be adding lots of material over the comming weeks. If you would like to add material, recommend some specific links, or have any questions, please contact: Andy Pols (andy@pols.co.uk).
Agility is the ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
A more robust definition can be found in Agile Competitors by S.L. Goldman, R.N. Nagel, K. Preiss:
Agility is dynamic, context-specific, aggressivley change-embracing, and growth-oriented. It is not about improving efficiency, cutting costs, or battling down the business hatches to ride out fearsome competitive storms. It is about winning: about succeeding in emerging competitive arenas, and about winning profits, market share, and customers in the very center of the competative storems many companies now fear.
I particually like this one from http://www.menloinstitute.com/method/agile.htm as it really focuses your mind as a developer. How many of us can put our hand on our heart and say we are agile?
Before you can build a team that rocks, you must first become agile. If you don't already know whan an Agile team is, let me help: An Agile software development team can add features in any order and can release a working version of the product at any iteration.
