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The Agile Manifesto as put forward at Salt Lake City was a very simple and straightforward set of common principles (see Figure 2).
 Figure 2 -- The Agile Manifesto. |
Remember, if you want to start a religious or software war, issue an edict or manifesto. The issuing of the Agile Manifesto represented a watershed event for those involved with radical methodologies -- the Rubicon had been crossed; the gauntlet had been thrown down. It began the war with the establishment, or at least those supporting CMM.
As we will see, there are some fundamental differences between the agile movement and those who support CMM, but then again, their goals and objectives are also different. First, we will discuss the full set of process and concepts that advocates of agile development propose, and then we'll discuss the audience that agile development addresses.
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If CMM is a set of loosely connected software management best practices, agile development is a set of highly integrated development and management practices.11 In his book, Extreme Programming Explained [1], Beck proposes 12 different ideas that are key to his form of agile development:12
1. The planning game
2. Small releases
3. Metaphor
4. Simple design
5. Testing
6. Refactoring
7. Pair programming
8. Collective ownership
9. Continuous integration
10. 40-hour week
11. On-site customer
12. Coding standards
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