Wednesday, January 15, 2014

What - What is the Zen of Agile

The Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/) encapsulates the Zen of Agile.  By Zen, I mean essence, basis, foundation, definition, core, etc.  In the Agile Manifesto the Zen concepts are: discovery (finding and learning), improvement (making things and processes better), empiricism (direct experience), sharing (helping and learning with others) and of course software development.  The first sentence of the Agile Manifesto encapsulates all these: “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.” 

And please notice, the Agile movement is now evolving beyond just developing software.  It is going main-stream.

The rest of the Agile Manifesto, the 4 Agile Values and the 12 Agile Principles, then builds on these Zen concepts. 
FYI – I will explore these in future posts.

Live Agile to be Agile. 


DONE.

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