敏捷软件开发（英语：Agile software development），又称敏捷开发，是一种从1990年代开始逐渐引起广泛关注的一些新型软件开发方法，是一种应对快速变化的需求的一种软件开发能力。它们的具体名称、理念、过程、术语都不尽相同，相对于「非敏捷」，更强调进程员团队与业务专家之间的紧密协作、面对面的沟通（认为比书面的文档更有效）、频繁交付新的软件版本、紧凑而自我组织型的团队、能够很好地适应需求变化的代码编写和团队组织方法，也更注重软件开发过程中人的作用。

Agile software development is a set of principles for software development in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change. Agile itself has never defined any specific methods to achieve this, but many have grown up as a result and have been recognized as being 'Agile'.