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Agile development is focused on reducing process waste and misplaced efforts by putting the bulk of the development teams effort into the software. At the core of Agile is iterative development. In iterative and incremental development the team does not have to wait until everything is decided before starting development. There is an initial planning activity that establishes vision, goals, time-line, architecture and content. Like all realistic initial plans, there is considerable uncertainty. in Agile we admit the uncertainty and move on making the best decisions we can with the information. Development is broken into a series of incremental deliverables that focus on features more than architecture. Architecture is obviously important, but people buy products for their features. The deliveries interval is usually 2 to 4 weeks. Even though there is a lot of uncertainty in some of the requirements development can begin on core functionality with requirements are concurrently elaborated. Having frequent functionality deliverables give very important feedback to the team and management. Such as:
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