Agile

How it is used

Used as an adjective (agile team, agile approach) and as a noun with a capital letter for the whole philosophy (“We moved to Agile last year”). It goes back to the Agile Manifesto of 2001. Scrum and Kanban are common agile frameworks.

Example sentences

1. Our mobile team works in an agile way, with two-week sprints and a demo at the end of each one.

2. Agile doesn't mean there is no plan; it means the plan is reviewed often.

Common collocations

• agile approach
• agile team
• agile transformation
• work in an agile way
• agile coach

Related terms

• scrumA popular agile framework in which a small team delivers work in fixed cycles called sprints, with set roles such as product owner and scrum master and regular events like planning and reviews.
• sprintA short, fixed period, often two weeks and never longer than a month, in which a Scrum team completes an agreed set of work.
• kanbanA way of managing work by showing it on a board with columns such as To do, In progress and Done, and limiting how many items can be in progress at the same time.
• waterfallA traditional way of running projects in which work moves through fixed phases in order, such as requirements, design, build, test and handover, and each phase is finished before the next starts.
• hybrid approachA way of running a project that mixes traditional, plan-driven methods with agile practices, for example a fixed overall plan with sprints for the software work.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• agile · Software Engineering

More terms: Agile & Scrum

• product owner
• scrum master
• backlog
• user story
• daily stand-up
• retrospective
• velocity
• story points
• sprint planning
• definition of done
• iteration
• burndown chart