Understanding Agile methodologies

Agility is a broad concept. To cut a long story short, decades ago, management approaches focused on command and control, centralized planning, functional organizations, and hierarchy. Although some organizations still benefit from predictive waterfall approaches to planning, most organizations and teams are embracing agile and hybrid approaches.

What does being Agile mean? Agile is characterized by certain behaviors, concepts, and techniques. The Agile Manifesto (https://agilemanifesto.org/), introduced in 2001, emphasizes individuals and interactions, working products (increments), customer collaboration, and responding to change. Instead of creating a plan that details everything in advance, agile focuses on prioritization, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.

There are many agile frameworks and methodologies. The two most widely known and adopted ones are Scrum and Kanban. The following diagram depicts a representation of the...