Agile Software Development Is Based On a Value System

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Agile Software Development Is Based On a Value
System

• Theres no specific way to be or not be agile
• Agile is the approach to a method, not the method
  itself
• The Pornography Test
• "I can't define pornography,
• but I know it when I see it."  
• --Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964
• Use the four principles to evaluate a
  methodologys agility
• Responses to agile values, in particular working
  software and responding to change, result in a
  predictable development lifeceycle

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A Span Plan Task Model Helps Plan Incremental
Product Releases

• Identify user tasks to support for each release
• Support complete end-to-end business processes, a
  system span
• Include necessary features
• Include some additional high value, high
  frequency features
• Show business users, developers and other
  team-members user workflow and task dependency

Activity build a span plan from pre-printed user
task cards