Instilling the values and principles of Agile

In the previous chapter, you learned that the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (also known as the Agile Manifesto, https://agilemanifesto.org/) laid out 4 values and 12 principles for improving software delivery. If you are new to Agile, you may not know that Agile is not a specific or single methodology. There is no guidance in the Agile Manifesto on how to instill Agile's values and principles, only a description of desirable outcomes or objectives.

Another way to think about the Agile Manifesto's values and principles is the notion of being Agile and not doing agile. In other words, while there are many things we can do to improve software development agility, the Agile Manifesto does not provide prescriptive guidance on how to do Agile.

Many methodologies claim to be Agile. For those who need a primer, I introduced Agile's history and the industry-leading Agile and Lean-Agile methodologies in my previous...