The good the hype and the ugly the first exhaustive unbiased review of agile principles techniques and tools a key resource for projects that combine the best of established results and agile innovations with chapters that critically analyse the four major agile methods extreme programming lean . 10 dealing with agile teams 11 the ugly the hype and the good an assessment of the agile approach chapter 1 is a summary of agile ideas and introduces the following core characteristics of agile values general assumptions framing the agile view of the world principles core agile rules organizational and technical. Agile ideas are a curious mix of the best and the worst brilliant insights that have already changed the way we think about software the good along with principles that are guaranteed to damage your projects the ugly plus some indifferent practices the hype that do not deserve the fuss. Agile methods contain a mix of the best and the worst plus some ideas of minor importance chapter 11 is the concluding assessment discussing the good the hype and the ugly agile