What is Agile?

Agile project management stresses flexibility, collaboration, and quick responsiveness to change. It is founded on the Agile Manifesto, a set of principles created in the early 2000s to assist teams in delivering high-quality goods and services in a continuously changing and uncertain environment.

The Agile approach is designed to be flexible and adaptable, with a focus on iterative and incremental development. It is built on the concept of continuous delivery, in which teams release tiny amounts of value on a regular basis rather than attempting to deliver everything at the conclusion of the project all at once.

Agile practices are used in a variety of contexts, including software development, marketing, and product management. They are often used to manage complex projects that involve a high degree of uncertainty or change. Agile practices include techniques such as agile planning, agile estimation, and agile testing, as well as agile frameworks such as Scrum, Lean, and Kanban.

Agile’s fundamentals, which include adaptability, iteration, continuous delivery, and short time frames, make it a project management approach best suited for ongoing projects and projects where certain details are unknown at the onset. That is, if a project lacks defined restrictions, timetables, or resources, it is a strong fit for an Agile methodology.

For example, designing and launching a new product may expose a team to a number of unexpected challenges. An Agile approach can indicate that the project already has the procedures in place to test products as frequently as needed, iterate quickly, and communicate changes to stakeholders.