Agile Values
Experts and devotees profess certain key values to characterize the culture and approach of agile development.
Individuals and interactions
over process and tools.
over process and tools.
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation.
over contract negotiation.
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Responding to change
over following a plan.
over following a plan.
Agile Red Flags
Starting out on an Agile project with little confidence, only a general knowledge and a ‘succeed first or scrap it’ mentality from the business can lead teams directly into common pitfalls.
The software dev team isn't talking to and observing end-users of the software in action.
Continuous feedback from users to the development team is not available.
Meeting all requirements is more important than responding to end-user feedback in real-time.
Stakeholders are acting more-or-less autonomously without collaboration.
End users of the software are missing in action throughout development.
DevSecOps culture is lacking if manual processes are tolerated and not automated.
Agile Tools & Process
Version Control
Version control system for tracking changes to source code. Git is the de facto open source standard for modern software development.
Repositories
These are the most common repository hosting sites. They also provide issue tracking, continuous integration apps and other productivity tools. Widely used by the open source community.
Continuous Integration
Continuous integration services used to build software projects. As stated before, they are closely integrated to code repositories and run tests the moment new code is committed.
Virtualization
Virtualization lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.
Visual Regression Testing
Visual regression tests aim to quickly identify differences in how an application looks.Tests are run automatically after every change in the codebase and can spot pixel differences across the different views.
Design
Design process is managed in a collaborative environment that the entire team has access to.
Wireflows, wireframes, and prototypes are used to document user-consumable requirements.
Wireflows, wireframes, and prototypes are used to document user-consumable requirements.
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