🔄 Agile Handbook

Overview

Agile is an iterative approach to software delivery that builds software incrementally from the start of the project, instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end. It values collaboration, flexibility, and customer feedback over rigid planning.

Type Methodology  Style Iterative & Incremental  Focus Value Delivery

Agile Manifesto – 4 Core Values

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

12 Agile Principles

• Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
• Deliver working software frequently (weeks rather than months)
• Business people and developers must work together daily
• Build projects around motivated individuals
• Face-to-face conversation is the most efficient communication
• Working software is the primary measure of progress
• Maintain a sustainable development pace
• Continuous attention to technical excellence
• Simplicity — maximizing the work not done
• Best architectures emerge from self-organizing teams
• Team regularly reflects and adjusts behavior

Agile Frameworks

Common Interview Topics

• Waterfall vs Agile differences
• When NOT to use Agile
• Definition of Done vs Definition of Ready
• Velocity and story points
• Retrospectives — formats and outcomes
• Agile vs SAFe in enterprise context