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10 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AGILE DEVELOPMENT

7. Individual developers get to do what they want – Agile requires the development team to work together and be disciplined.

What gets done and when is lead from a designated role and agreed upon by the team as a whole. 8. Documentation is bad – When there are distributed development teams or a high rate of turnover in teams, key knowledge needs to be documented to supplement face-to-face communication. Documenting key decisions and rationale also helps teams from repeating mistakes. The key to documentation is that it needs to be created when truly needed and contain details that will be used going forward. 9. Realizing the benefits of Agile only takes a couple of months – New to Agile development teams often take years, not months, to fully implement Agile in an organization. 10. Agile “out of the box” is good for every project – When applying Agile to large projects and distributed development teams or very large teams, some modifications and care need to be taken to provide for their unique needs and requirements.