Do you have to stick to the strict guidelines or Agile of can you be flexible and adapt it to your specific project?

*To get benefit of Agile , we can not skip a single step.We must adhere to the process.* Yes definatly we can customized process as different project have different scenario, different demand, big team size, dependent module, distributed team.

At the end its incremental process so, each and every step must followed with committed time box.Envolvement of stackholder, customer, user, team for better result as per different phase.

There are no perfect projects, so there will be some sort of adjustments during its implementation.