Developed by Joe Moses, adapted by Jason Tham. January 2016.
What is Agile?
Agile is a term that denotes resilience and energy. Agile project management focuses on shared responsibility for projects conducted by cross-functional self-directed teams who communicate frequently about goals and productivity.
Some Key Agile Principles
Flexibility |
Welcome and harness change |
Collaboration |
Work together throughout the project |
Motivation |
Build projects around motivated people |
Sustainability |
Promote work around sustainable environments |
Reflection |
Review progress often and seek improvement constantly |
Agile Writing Methodology
Agile writing adopts project management practices that enable you to share responsibility for learning while engaged in writing projects. Agile writing assumes that productivity comes from shared understanding and that shared understanding comes from both structured and unstructured interactions among team members, the scrum master, and product owner. The structures of agile writing are designed to support the following practices:
Explicitness |
Make clear rhetorical features, goals and standards of written products |
Usefulness |
Writers produce from sprint to sprint usable, publishable products |
Engagement |
Individuals working on their own projects work in teams and engage with each other throughout the project to address questions and concerns about assignments, workflows, communication, and other issues that impact productivity |
Connectedness |
Structures exist to promote and sustain and continuously improve connections among participants |
Self-
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Teams make the key decisions affecting their workflows and productivity |
Cross-
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Cross-functional teams of writers support each other in development of individual increments of usable publishable content |