Agile

There's a few tenets to agile programming/development.

• Customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of useful software
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
• Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
• Working software is the principal measure of progress
• Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace
• Close, daily cooperation between businesspeople and developers
• Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)
• Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
• Simplicity
• Self-organizing teams
• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

Maybe it should be made into a rhyme like, "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick...," just for easier memorization of some of the tenets.

That rhyme could be updated for agile methodologies!