Agile

A description of agile in general.

In our words, agile is a culture on many levels that allows change for the better, meaning more value as it is specified the manifesto.

At the community level, our industry celebrates and recognizes organizations and individuals that provide more value.
At the organizational level, we (as leaders) measure and reward software development that returns long-term value and cost-efficiency.
At the individual level, we (as developers) keep our work transparent and take pride in our craftmanship. We remain loyal to our Programming Ethics and strive to work more efficiently.

It is no easy task to boil agile down to one sentence, but here are some attempts and paraphrases.

"Do a good job." (Uncle Bob)

"Inspect and adapt." (Mike Cohn)

"Be as productive as possible in producing customer value" (Totto)

"I am not agile. I get more agile." (from a Norwegian entry in Johannes' blog)