The Agile Manifesto[1] is a statement of the principles that underpin agile software development. It was drafted from 11 to 13 February 2001, at The Lodge at the Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch Range of mountains in Utah[2], where representatives of various new methodologies (such as Extreme Programming, Scrum, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature Driven Development, and Pragmatic programming) met to discuss the need for lighter alternatives to the traditional heavyweight methodologies.
The 17 authors of the manifesto were: Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland and Dave Thomas.
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
References
Memories of the participants
- Writing The Agile Manifesto, by Martin Fowler
- Some Agile History, by Dave Thomas
- The Founding of the Agile Alliance, By Uncle Bob
See also
- Software Craftsmanship which is a related movement with a manifesto that extends upon the ideas in the Agile Manifesto
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