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Avoid PowerPoint software

Avoid PowerPoint software

From the course: Agile Foundations

Avoid PowerPoint software

- One of the things that a lot of Agile teams get tripped up on is this idea of delivering high value working software. Remember that the Manifesto's Principle 7 says that working software is the primary measure of progress, but how's it possible to deliver working software every few weeks? To do that, you need to deliver small, fully functional features of the product to the customer in iterations or sprints. Let's think about developing a simple website. We just want a web form that captures the customer's contact information and stores it in a database. If you think about it, that's a whole project, and there are several possible milestones. For the first milestone, you need to create the database. Then you might need to develop the software that connects the form to the database. Finally, you have to create the form that captures the information. You might also need extra code to make sure that you have the correct data in the forms. So if you're looking at the website as a…

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