This variance is due to differences in the cost of living, usually in urban communities. At the current time, 29 states have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour), and five states have not set a state minimum wage.
How We Finally Made Agile. Development Work. BY JEFF GOTHELF. Many software products benefit from a continuous improvement model, and for the teams. working on them, increased agility is inevitable. Yet, despite dozens of books on the subject, thousands of eager coaches, and a multitude of software vendors hawking products to make agile.
There are other agile variants we haven't explored here, including Feature Driven Development and Jim Highsmith's Adaptive Software Development. Some agile variants, like Scrum, are primarily focused on the project management element of product development, while others, like XP, are software centric.