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Hello hello, Have you read  Agile - Back to the basics ? If not, now is a good time to read it 😉 Surprise! Today is the 2nd part. We'll continue from where we left. Waterfall: recap Just a quick recap first. Last time we talked about the Waterfall model, how it can be used, and why it may usually be bad for building software. Waterfall is a project management approach in which all requirements are gathered at the very beginning of a project. Once requirements are gathered, the project is broken down into a set of sequential stages. Those stages are: Gathering requirements → Designing → Implementing → Verifying / Testing → Maintaining We mentioned those stages being sequential which means one cannot just jump from one to another randomly. Following the Waterfall model, one needs to completely finish and sign off a specific stage to go to the next one. Here's for example how it could look like: Spend 2 months gathering requirements and understanding needs Spend 3 months designin...

Hello hello, Good morning from beautiful Poland. Yep from Poland; My fiance and I travelled 20 hours from London to  Bystrzyca Kłodzka .  I still can't believe it when I hear some people saying they don't like remote work! I probably should dedicate an article to remote working and how to make it work. I've started working remotely way before lockdown and way before it gets inflicted on people. Anyway, that's not our topic for today. You probably guessed it from the title :) Today is about Agile! You've probably heard a lot about Agile. It's a word that gets thrown around all the time. A lot of times it's used to shut people up. A lot of other times it's used to disguise a lack of any knowledge of what's going on in a company or a project. Many other times it's used because well everyone else is using the term and we just want to be like everyone else. The problem though, I really believe not many understand what true agility is, why it's nee...