What is Agile?

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What is agile?

Agile is a methodology for developing software and agile approaches allow teams to take an iterative approach towards building a product.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

So there's four key things in agile manifesto. They are individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation.

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation and responding to change over following a plan.

What's the value of Agile?

So agile encourages collaboration between different team members. For testers, that means that we engage with our teams earlier in the project.

And teams can regularly feed back to users to ensure that they are on the right path.

And another big benefit agile is agility being able to adapt to change.

And what are the pitfalls?

Well, agile is a principle and not just a series of activities such as planning and a retrospective.

And it requires a team to be mature and regularly communicate and collaborate with one another.

And a team not making any noise as an agile.

Excellent. So now we know about Agile.

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Mark Winteringham

Tester, Toolsmith, Author and Instructor

Mark Winteringham is a tester, toolsmith and author of AI-Assisted Testing and Testing Web APIs, with over ten years of experience providing testing expertise on award-winning projects across a wide range of technology sectors, including BBC, Barclays, UK Government and Thomson Reuters. He is an advocate for modern risk-based testing practices and trains teams in Automation, Behaviour Driven Development and Exploratory testing techniques. He is also the co-founder of Ministry of Testing Essentials a community raising awareness of careers in testing and improving testing education. You can find him on Twitter @2bittester or at mwtestconsultancy.co.uk
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Dan Ashby

Director of Quality Services

Proud father. Quality and Testing enthusiast, teacher, coach, mentor and servant leader. Director of Quality Services @ Ada Health. I blog at: danashby.co.uk and I'm a co-founder of the MoT Essentials (formerly the Software Testing Clinic). I love being involved in the testing community (and other communities)!
00:00:00,560: So, Dan, what is agile?
00:00:02,560: Agile is a methodology for developing software and agile
00:00:07,040: approaches allow teams to take an iterative approach towards
00:00:10,465: building a product.
00:00:11,745: So what can you tell us about the agile manifesto?
00:00:14,945: So there's four key things in agile manifesto.
00:00:18,370: They are individuals and interactions over processes and
00:00:21,250: tools, working software over comprehensive documentation.
00:00:25,445: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
00:00:29,445: and responding to change over following a plan.
00:00:32,770: And what's the value?
00:00:34,530: So agile encourages collaboration between different team members.
00:00:38,690: For testers, that means that we engage with our teams earlier in the project.
00:00:43,565: And teams can regularly feed back to users to ensure that
00:00:47,325: they are on the right path.
00:00:49,210: And another big benefit agile is agility being able to adapt to change.
00:00:54,730: And what are the pitfalls?
00:00:56,775: Well, agile is a principle and not just a series of activities
00:01:01,255: such as planning and a retrospective.
00:01:03,970: And it requires a team to be mature and regularly
00:01:07,570: communicate and collaborate with one another.
00:01:10,930: And a team not making any noise as an agile.
00:01:15,625: Excellent. So now we know about our job.
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