#TestCulture 🦅 Episode 1 - The foundations of the Agile method

In 1986, Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuchi, two academics who observed companies such as Toyota, defined 3️⃣ categories of companies:
𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙰 companies, such as NASA 🚀, which divide work into well-defined phases and do not move on to the next phase until the previous one has been completed.
𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙱 companies, where the phases overlap slightly, based on the observation that it is conceivable, for example, to start the architecture when 80% of the specifications have been completed.
𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙲 companies where everything is done at the same time, like in a rugby scrum.

The term 𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 appeared in the English-speaking business world in the early 1990s. In 1991, James Martin based his vision on the continuous evolution of computer techniques and proposed a 𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑 for rapid application development. ✍

💡 If you don't know who is James Martin:
James Martin is an English consultant and author in information technology. He is known for his work on information technology engineering.

Subsequently, in 2001, a manifesto for Agile Software Development was written in the United States by 1️⃣7️⃣ software development experts. 🔎 Each of these experts had already developed new methods that were lighter than traditional methods inspired by civil engineering. ⚙🛠

If agile methods did not appear thanks to this manifesto, it does however officially refer to these methods under the term 𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞.🤓
The 4️⃣ values of the agile manifesto have been broken down into 1️⃣2️⃣ principles in order to provide operational support to teams wishing to follow them. 💪

The 4 values are:
👉 𝐈𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: Delivers a full system at the very beginning and then changes the functionality of each subsystem with each new release. 🔁
👉 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥: The system as specified in the requirements is partitioned into small subsystems by functionality. New functionality is added with each new release. 🔃
👉 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠: The team has the autonomy to organize itself to best complete the work items. 📰
👉 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭: Technology and requirements are “allowed” to emerge through the product development cycle. 📈

Agile is currently an umbrella concept encompassing many methods. 📜 Agile methods will not out rule traditional methods because diverse processes for software engineering are still needed. ☝️

Learn more about the foundations of the #Agile method on Agilitest' blog. Thread on Twitter.

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📚 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕤:
🎴 https://agilitest.com/cards/do-everything-at-the-same-time
🌐https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
📕 C. David, M. Lindvall, and P. Costa. "Agile software development." DACS SOAR Report 11. 2003.
📕 K. Beck,M. Beedle, and A. Van Bennekum et al. Manifesto for agile software development. 2001.