Significance
There is a common misconception that having agility means no processes or that processes are not important. This view comes from the first tenet of the Agile Manifesto, covered in Chapter 2, From Agile to Agility, which states, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools."
What is often forgotten about is reading this tenet in the context of the last sentence in the Manifesto, which states, "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more." Hence, the Manifesto is explicitly stating that there is value in processes and tools (the items on the right), and that there is more value in individuals and interactions (the item on the left).
It is important to understand why the creators of the Agile Manifesto gave relatively less importance to processes and tools, in comparison to individuals and interactions. In enterprises that were modelled the mechanistic way, as elaborated on earlier in this book, the focus was largely on...
