传统的产品/流程与敏捷的产品/流程的着重点：
| Traditional | Agile |
| Processes and tools | Individuals and interactions |
| Comprehensive documentation | Workable software |
| Contract negotiation | Customer collaboration |
| Change through following a plan | Change through fast response |
传统的产品/流程与敏捷的产品/流程的质量因素：
| Quality | Traditional | Agile |
| Philosophy | Empowerment | Innovative,participative,empowerment |
| Lifestyle | Work-orientated | Life-orientated |
| Approach | Plan driven and prescriptive processes Process driven-rigid-bur eaucratic | Flexible,evolutionary,adaptive, iterative,incremental |
| Driving forces | Management commitment and leadership | Technically competent and motivated developers |
| Customer involvement | Early and late stages in life cycle | Troughout life cycle |
| Customer participation | Encouraged-Customer Focus | Imperative user participation |
| Communication | Formal | Informal |
| Teams | Inter-group coordination | Self-organising teams |
| Responsiveness | Bureaucratic delays | Quick responses |
| Knowledge creation | Tacit,Formal,Explicit | Tacit,Informal,Explicit |
| Knowledge sharing | Desirable,Formal | Imperative,Informal |
| Documentation | Maximum | Minimum |
| Changing requirements | Processes have to be followed | Adaptability to changes throughout the development process |
| Testing | Late in life cycle | Test first |
| Error detection | Inspection | Pair programming(XP) |
| Progress review | Formal peer review(CMMI) | Continuous peer reviews |
| Requirements elicitation | Planned and infrequent | Daily stand-up meeting |
| Tool support | Tool supporting different phases of the life cycle-fragmented | Automated testing tools-Integrated CASE(I-CASE) |
| Delivery of product | Planned | Frequent-loose plan |
| QA function | Formalise-Separated | Informa-Embedded |
