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Whole-Team approach is the major feature of Agile development. It promotes team chemistry by daily interactions and progress sharing. In this post, I am going to discuss about whole team approach and its benefits. The whole team approach means involving different people with specific skill set and knowledge which are required for project success. An ideal agile team includes testers, developers and business representatives. The idea is to have a small team, anywhere between 3 to 9 team members per agile team who would work on the same workspace. As I mentioned in my previous article  Role of a tester in agile team , co-location is really important to facilitate daily interactions and effective communication. Daily stand-up meetings are conducted in whole-team approach where all the team members communicate and analyze the work progress. They also mention all the roadblocks or concerns in daily meetings which required to be handled in order to meet the sprint deadline. Below ar...

Agile manifesto refers to the set of rules or values used in an agile project. It contains mainly 4 values: Individual and Interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change Over (in traditional project): Processes and Tools Comprehensive documentation Contract negotiation Following a plan Let's discuss these four values in details: Individual and Interactions : Agile development follows a whole team approach and is very people centered. Development team builds software through communication and interaction among different teams and people instead of depending on tools and processes. Individual team member offers a specific skill set and whole team involves in planning the development and testing strategies.  Working software : It is always beneficial to see the working software instead of heavy documentation. It also helps developers in getting early feedback from the clients which in turn cuts down the cost of accommodating c...