The phases are the what; a methodology is the how. This chapter covers the ways teams actually organize the work — from the old sequential Waterfall to Agile and its flavors, Scrum and Kanban — plus the everyday rituals and words: sprints, standups, backlogs, story points, and what "done" really means.
5 topics
In the last chapter you met the big split — sequential versus iterative. This chapter turns that split into the real, named ways teams work, the ones you'll see on job postings and hear in your first week: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
Five topics. First Waterfall, the original do-it-in-order approach, and why it still matters. Then the Agile mindset that reacted to it, and its most common form, Scrum — sprints, roles, and ceremonies. Then Kanban, Lean, and XP, which round out the Agile family. And finally the everyday mechanics every team shares: how work gets estimated, and how a team agrees on what "finished" means.