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Presenter
 This summary presentation is developed by Mr. Hamza Qazi, MBA, PMP, SCM. He is
an experienced instructor of project management and has been teaching PMP,
CAPM, and Agile for over 3 years. If you need additional information or training,
please contact him as follows:
 Email: pmp@uloomtraining.com
 Phone: 1-647-247-4810
 GTA, Ontario, Canada
 Training delivered by Hamza Qazi
◦ Project Management Professional (PMP) certification prep
◦ Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM) certification prep
◦ Agile Project Management certification prep
◦ Several PMI PDUs courses
◦ MS Project Level 1 Hands-on course
◦ Soft Skills such as Communications Management and Behavioural Job Interviewing Skills
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Agenda
 Agile Background
 Why Agile
 The Agile Manifesto
 Twelve Guiding Principles
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Agile Background
 In 1970, Dr. Winston Royce presented a paper entitled “Managing the
Development of Large Software Systems,” which criticized sequential
development. He asserted that computer software should not be
developed like an automobile on an assembly line, in which each piece is
added in sequential phases.
 Dr. Royce recommended against the phase based approach in which
developers first gather all of a project’s requirements, then complete all of
its architecture and design, then write all of the code, and so on. In such
sequential phases, every phase of the project must be completed before
the next phase can begin.
 Dr. Royce recommended “Agile” as an alternative to waterfall
methodology. Instead of a sequential design process, the Agile
methodology follows an incremental approach as follows:
◦ Developers start off with a simplistic project design, and then begin to work on
small modules. The work on these modules is done in weekly or monthly sprints
(iterations) , and at the end of each sprint, project priorities are evaluated and
tests are run. These sprints allow for bugs to be discovered, and customer
feedback to be incorporated into the design before the next sprint is run.
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Why Agile?
 The Information Revolution relies on knowledge workers whose main
capital is knowledge. They utilize their subject matter expertise and take
part in analysis, design and/or development effort.
 Knowledge workers engineers, scientists, doctors, teachers and IT folks.
They are not industrial workers and their work has following
characteristics:
◦ Work is invisible, less structured, and requires frequent decision-making
◦ Work involves continuous change, innovation, learning and experimenting
◦ Work requires autonomy, focus on quality, asking questions and collaboration
 To manage the work of knowledge workers, a new method and set of
techniques are required that are adaptable, flexible, time-boxed and
iterative.
 Hence, a number of Agile methods were invented such as Scrum, Extreme
Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD), Crystal and
Kanban, etc.
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Agile Manifesto
 A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or
views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or
government.
 The Agile Manifesto declared in February 2001 is as follows:
◦ “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping
others do it.”
 Four values of the Agile Manifesto:
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Individuals and Interactions
over
Processes andTools
Working Software
over
Comprehensive Documentation
Customer Collaboration
over
Contract Negotiation
Responding to Change
over
Following a Plan

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Agile Four Values Explained
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Whereas processes and tools are required for successful completion of a project, the emphasis is on
individuals, teams, their development, productivity, self-organization, motivation, co-location, and effective
interactions.
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
• There is a need to deliver working product and not just documentation. Software without a documentation
is certainly problematic and creates support /maintenance issues. But, comprehensive documentation
without a software is valueless.
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• This value is a reminder to be flexible and accommodating (doing the right thing) rather than fixed and
uncooperative (being right). Customer requirements cannot be fully and reliably collected at the project
beginning. Therefore, continuous customer or stakeholder involvement is very important to progressively
collect, elicit, elaborate and finalize requirements.
4. Responding to Change over following a plan
◦ Acknowledging that initial plans are made when we know the least about the project. Hence these initial
plans may be inadequate and subject to change. Agile is focused on quick response to changes on the
project and continuous planning/development.
 The Agile Manifesto is not a set of rules telling us to do one thing instead of another. It guides us
to consider projects from value-based perspective. Agility is the capacity to focus our efforts on
the left side of the value statements, while not forgetting the right side.
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Twelve Guiding Principles
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No. 1
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.
No. 2
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.Agile processes
harness change for customer’s competitive advantage.
No. 3
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of
months, with a preference to shorter timescale.

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No. 4
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the
project
No. 5
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and
support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
No. 6
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and
within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

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No. 7
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
No. 8
Agile processes promote sustainable development.The sponsors, developers,
and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
No. 9
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances
agility.

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No. 10
Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is
essential.
No. 11
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-
organizing teams.
No. 12
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective,
then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly.

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