6. Agile processes

In reaction to methodologies applied without nuance to any type of project, the AGILE community emphasizes :

• concrete individuals and their cultural practices ;

• good communication between all players, including users and their representative;

• the ability to react and take new needs into account, even when development is already well advanced.

Rather than more or less abstruse definitions of processes and activities, such as can be found in normative documents (cf. IEEE Software Engineering standards, ISO/CEI standards, etc.), the emphasis is on the human and social dimension, on good engineering practices that are often common sense, on the division of development into temporal phases and on regular deliveries of source code that is immediately...