A short instructional video/lesson by Mike Lyons introducing the 12 Agile Manifesto principles. The speaker highlights two principles—sustainable development (maintaining a constant, sustainable pace) and face-to-face communication (now often via video)—and prompts viewers to read all twelve and indicate which resonate with them.
And so these 12 principles, the Agile Manifesto principles, really set the groundwork for how we apply these things in our day to day work and how we work and how we work with others. In this lesson you'll have an opportunity to interact with those principles, just as mentioned, where you'll have a chance to choose ones that resonate with you. But let's look at a couple just to talk through as a baseline here. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. Well, that's an interesting one. You know, I have been on many projects where it's sort of the death march, as we call it, to the end of the project. There's a fixed scope, fixed date, fixed cost, and we're working weekends and sort of absorbing that as developers and testers and operations people. Maybe you've been on those programs as well, where it's just exhausting. You know, we're like just everybody's under so much pressure. We really want to have more of a sustainable pace. And that might be manifest itself in ways like letting team members pull their own work and self organizing and things of that nature that Agile teams do. Let's take a look at another one. How about the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face to face conversation. Now this is an interesting one given where we are today, where much of our communication, including this class right here, is done over some sort of medium like, you know, video or audio over the Internet. You got to remember when the manifesto was written in 2001, there wasn't really any technology that allowed for face to face communication remotely using technology. Now it really was based on our communication was off a set of written requirements documents. And so when the manifesto was crafted, the idea was let's move away from just developing to these requirements that are written down and move to face to face communication. Wouldn't you rather talk to a person and see what's on their mind and learn about what their needs are and empathize with them, then read it in a document they wrote maybe months ago? Face to face communication today likely means some sort of, you know, over the Internet communication with video at a minimum, it means let's, let's call the person, let's get them, hear their voice. But that's the idea behind face to face communication. And Those are just two examples of the 12. Why don't you take a minute now and read all 12 of these. We'll display them for you and make them available for you and then go ahead and answer the question that you see below. And that's the idea of, again, which ones of these really resonate with you or stand out in a positive way? So we'll let you do that now.
