Processes and Tools in Support of Individuals and Interactions
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" (http://agilemanifesto.org) - t he first value in the Agile Manifesto is a reckoning of the issues stemming from the current state of affairs and a call to action to re-focus on what turns out to be the most important fact - that especially in software development (but maybe not only...) each person operates differently, but more so that a person will operate very differently in different teams and environments. Hence the agile approaches and methodologies are much more detailed in describing objectives and principles than providing specific and direct predefined processes and tools to be re-used over and over again with little to no adaptation to the current conditions. Because of this shift there is a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in the industry, and newcomers to Agile are concerned with the "lack of direction" and the "lack of structure" in the new world. Just to clarify - this is...