Agile Software Development

10 Key Principles of Agile Software Development, and how Agile Development fundamentally differs from a more traditional Waterfall approach to software development, are as follows:

1. Active user involvement is imperative
2. The team must be empowered to make decisions
3. Requirements evolve but the timescale is fixed
4. Capture requirements at a high level; lightweight & visual
5. Develop small, incremental releases and iterate
6. Focus on frequent delivery of products
7. Complete each feature before moving on to the next
8. Apply the 80/20 rule

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Baby steps is one of the principles behind the eXtreme Programming and other agile methods. It is, namely, performing changes in small steps on every level, be it implementing a feature, changing the database structure or just coding a couple of methods.