Agile — What You Need To Know
2 min readJun 26, 2022
Over a series of articles, I will cover what “Being Agile” means.
Starting with “What is Agile anyway?”, I will then cover all the key features of Agile and the popular frameworks, each article looking at a topic in more depth.
This page is the “Contents Page” and will be added to as articles are written, with topics organised into chapters.
Chapter One — What is Agile?
- Exploding 12 Myths of Agile
- Your organisation must be more Agile. This is why and how.
- What is Agile anyway?
- The Four Values of Agile
- The 12 Principles of Agile
- The Declaration of Interdependence (DOI) of Project Leaders
- When is Agile a bad idea?
- Definition of Done versus Acceptance Criteria
- Hybrid: Combining Waterfall and Agile
- Should you stop employing Project Managers?
- How Adopting Agile can Destroy your Organisation
- Contract models in an Agile world
Chapter Two — Doing Agile with Scrum
- How to deliver an Agile Scrum project
- Delivering Agile Projects on Time with Confidence
- Why a Roadmap is Critical in Agile
- Why Gantt charts are not beneficial in an Agile organisation
- Product Vision and Product Goals
- The 3 Roles in Scrum
- The Product Owner
- The Scrum Master
- The Development Team
Chapter Three — Managing Agile Scrum Projects
- “Will you deliver what I’ve asked for on time, and on budget?”
- Improve efficiency with Value Stream Mapping
- Managing Risks in Agile Scrum
- How we seamlessly integrated Agile into a former Waterfall team
- 10 Tools for managing Agile Scrum projects
- More to come…
