Anatomy of the Agile Enterprise

The goal of Agile software development is to achieve high predictability and quality by knowing the status of your projects at any point in time. It works by constraining key variables:

• Time 
• Costs 
• Quality 

However, by maintaining a backlog of work that is constantly groomed and re-prioritized, we ensure that the features that are most valuable to the customer are always developed and delivered first. Teams deliver working software frequently, so they can commit to releasing on a particular date and avoid over-committing themselves; however, all content the team does deliver is production quality.