Agile software development
![Pair programming, an agile development technique used by XP. Note information radiators in the background.](/Images/godic/202501/20/Pair_programming_10149.jpg")
![Software development life-cycle support[39]](/Images/godic/202501/20/SoftwareDevelopmentLifeCycle0149.jpg")
![Agile Brazil 2014 conference](/Images/godic/202501/20/Agile_Brazil_2014_conference_entrance0150.jpg")
Agile software development is a set of principles for software development in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change. Agile itself has never defined any specific methods to achieve this, but many have grown up as a result and have been recognized as being 'Agile'.