Abstract
The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles are typically referred to as the definitions of "agile" and "agility". However, many other definitions exist in the literature. Thus the different definitions provide interesting source for research. For each definition we examine where their emphasis is and compare that to the emphases found in the Agile Principles.
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- Agile Method
- Customer Engagement
- Agile Development
- Agile Practice
- Agile Software Development
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Laanti, M., Similä, J., Abrahamsson, P. (2013). Definitions of Agile Software Development and Agility. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_22
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