Scrum – A Pocket Guide

In an Agile process the goal of each iteration is to produce a working piece of product. No partial work is included in the software at the end of an iteration.

Detailed requirements, hard-coded plans, designs, etc. form a liability in software development, and not an asset, because they represent potentially unused work. Agile avoids producing these upfront in every possible detail. If the potential point of implementation of identified work is still some time away, the chances are quite high that this will not be implemented.

It invokes the difficult exercise of letting go of ‘command and control’,

Lean is primarily about respecting people in order to optimize value and quality

Releasing software on the marketplace regularly is the only way to adapt to the feedback and appreciation of the marketplace