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This chapter discusses the Agile methodology which is a popular lightweight approach to software development. Agile provides opportunities to assess the direction of a project throughout the development lifecycle, and ongoing changes to requirements are considered normal in the Agile world. It has a strong collaborative style of working, and it advocates adaptive planning and evolutionary development.
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Agile teams are self-organizing, and small teams (team size <20 people) do not usually have a project manager role, and the Scrum master performs some light project management tasks.
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K. Beck et al., Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agile Alliance (2001), http://agilemanifesto.org/
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O’Regan, G. (2017). Agile Methodology. In: Concise Guide to Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57750-0_18
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