Agile posts

When a software developer hears news about a “new JavaScript framework” or a “new IDE,” he doesn’t need to ask more questions to clarify what it’s about. But if he hears about a “new agile framework,” he will likely do the Homer-Simpsonian nodding, pretending that he knows what it’s about, but he will have one, and only one, question: “What the heck does ‘agile framework’ mean?”

In the modern software development environment, we increasingly hear words like “agile,” “scrum,” and “kanban,” and they are often used improperly. In this article, I’ll try to explain and to clarify some of these terms.

Simply calling something Agile isn’t particularly helpful. The word, even in a software context, means different things to different people or organizations. There are many facets, definitions, implementations, and interpretations.

In this article, Toptal Head of Projects Paul Barnes teaches about behaviors, frameworks, techniques, and concepts supporting agile project management in software development.