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Agile is an empirical approach to performing work.  Instead of following a detailed plan developed upfront, the Agile team observes and experiments, a process that metrics directly support.  Metrics are something useful to measure, like customer satisfaction or network bandwidth.  In the Agile world, metrics help you establish baselines for comparison when making changes; monitor

Speed of development is a benefit of Agile software projects but can have an undesirable side effect. Software that developers deliver in an iteration (e.g., Scrum sprint) might work but not have the same level of quality, reliability, or consistency as more “polished” code. The team might also take credit for finishing a user story

Ideally, all your Agile team members agree with The Agile Manifesto, complete their tasks on time, raise concerns immediately, and are fully committed to the success of your organization and its customers. In the real world, of course, this is rarely the case. Most likely, your team will include people with varying levels of commitment

Maybe you’ve received a mandate from upper management to become Agile. Or maybe your organization has asked you to expand Agile from just software development to other parts of the enterprise. To ensure a successful transformation, the following article (Dynanet_Prevent Agile Crash and Burn) identifies 8 steps to success.

To lower labor costs and tap larger talent pools, software development is becoming more virtual and distributed. And now that Agile software development is widely accepted, remote Agile teams are a reality.  The following article (10 Tips for Managing Remote Agile Teams) provides tips for managing remote teams such as cross-functionality, continuous integration, and automated testing.

You’ve assembled your Agile team, trained them on Agile principles, given them the best Agile tools, and let them run with it. They have grown as a team, executed their development iterations well, and delivered working software every few weeks. How does the team achieve the next level of performance? Read more (7 Traits of

Product Owners are key to the Agile development team.  There are 8 key traits that each Product Owner should possess.  Read more (8 Key Traits of an Agile Product Owner) to find out about those traits.