Re: Agile … what?

[Senff]

In short — it’s a way of managing/organizing a project. For example, a “normal” project cycle could be (chronologically):

Step 1: design team designs entire site
Step 2: back-end team codes entire site
Step 3: front-end team styles entire site

With Agile, it would be more like this:

Step 1: design team designs the front page of the site
Step 2: back-end team codes the front page of the site
Step 3: front-end team styles the front page of the site
Step 4: design team designs the store section of the site
Step 5: back-end team codes the store section of the site
Step 6: front-end team styles the store section of the site
Step 7: design team designs the account section of the site
Step 8: back-end team codes the account section of the site
Step 9: front-end team styles the account section of the site
etc. etc.

Personally, not a big fan of Agile to be honest. And it shouldn’t be something a coder should require for a job — it’s mainly the job of a project manager/scheduler to handle this type of stuff, coders should just follow the lead.

If you have no experience with this whatsoever, you’ll learn automatically.