Over the last few posts I’ve talked about principles, I’ve talked about culture and mentioned methodologies.
Although I’ve touched upon development/engineering practices in most of these posts you could be forgiven in thinking that these practices are unimportant or just another thing you should do.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
The key to achieving success with agile in software development is by implementing the various development/engineering practices.
Without these practices “agile” just becomes a different way to organise the work, it doesn’t improve the quality of the code and it doesn’t speed up development.
On the flip side just adopting the development/engineering practices won’t help protect the team from being bombarded with requests for work, having to chop and change between projects or working on “the wrong thing”, the other agile practices exist specifically to help the team with this allowing them to focus on getting software into the hands of the users/customers, which after all is the ultimate goal.
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