How Agile are you?

So you think you are agile? You have successfully embedded the agile principles, values and practices from your chosen process framework, pull system and software development methodology applicable to your organisation. However, how does your organisation measure the success of this? Thankfully, we have an answer. Agility can be measured by: Ratio of development budget to
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When to use Extreme Programming (XP)

Extreme Programming.
Whether your preferred Agile approach is the Scrum process framework, the Kanban pull-system or a tailored combination of both, neither will tell your developers how to develop once they understand the requirements and business priorities. This is when Extreme Programming (XP) is used, which essentially takes software development best practices to extreme levels. There is
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Waterfall is dead, long live Agile?

Waterfall vs Agile
Maybe not as dramatic as the title suggests, but the latest evidence suggests that the Agile software development values, principles, practices and now tools are here to stay, with Scrum and Kanban alongside Extreme Programming (XP) being the most popular Agile methods used today. What is Waterfall software development? The waterfall model is a sequential
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