I think that probably most development teams describe themselves as being “agile” and probably most development teams have standups, and meetings called retrospectives. There is also a lot of discussion about “agile,” much written about “agile,” and there are many presentations about “agile.” A question that is often asked is, what comes after “agile?” Many testers work in “agile” teams, so this question matters to us.
Before we can consider what comes after agile, we need to consider what agile is — an iterative, incremental development methodology. Agile teams develop software in iterations and each iteration makes an increment toward the team’s goal. An agile team can decide, after an iteration or two, that the goal they are working towards should be changed and start to work on a new goal. Working iteratively makes the team agile as it can change direction quickly and easily. There are several agile methodologies and one of the most widely used methodologies is scrum.