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# Core Agile Principles

### Principle 1: Focus on User Needs

We prioritise user and customer needs over assumptions, internal preferences, or stakeholder opinion.

### Principle 2: Deliver Iteratively

We deliver work in increments so that value, risk, and progress can be assessed regularly.

### Principle 3: Improve the Service Continuously

We improve the product, service, or deliverable based on research, testing, feedback, and data.

### Principle 4: Improve How the Team Works

We use retrospectives and regular team reflection to improve collaboration, quality, and pace.

### Principle 5: Fail Fast and Learn Quickly

We test risky assumptions early so that weak ideas can be stopped before they become expensive.

### Principle 6: Keep Planning

Planning is continuous.

We maintain a vision, objectives, roadmap, and backlog, and we update them as we learn.

### Principle 7: Make Progress Visible

The team should be able to show:

* what has been done
* what is in progress
* what is blocked
* what is next
* what risks exist
* what decisions are needed

### Principle 8: Build Quality In

Quality is not inspected only at the end.

It is built into requirements, design, engineering, review, testing, security, and acceptance.