Brief Tour of Agile Software Development
A February 2001 gathering of 17 legendary software developers at a Wasatch Mountain, Utah ski resort, resulted in a set of ideas so groundbreaking that they named it the Agile Manifesto. Since the ski resort attendees gathered to have some fun with their friends, they likely never imagined the global impact of their after-dinner bull session on the software development profession (Highsmith 2001).
When many of us hear the term Manifesto, we may think of Marx’s and Engels’s fiery rhetoric in The Communist Manifesto, which laid the ideological groundwork for socialism. Comparatively, The Agile Manifesto is surprisingly brief and gentle. Nowhere in the Agile Manifesto do its authors call for the ...
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