Agile Manifesto -- Some 16 years later
" In 2001, 17 individuals gathered in the Wasatch mountains of Utah to find common ground around Agile. After much skiing, talking, relaxing, and eating, they arrived at four common values that led to the development of the Agile Manifesto."[ source ] [ Wikipedia ] Going to AgileManifecto.org , we see just 14 people listed, what appears to be their feeling on what promised so much hope some 15 years ago. Mike Beedle Arie van Bennekum Alistair Cockburn " “Agile has become overly decorated. Let’s scrape away those decorations for a minute, and get back to the center of agile. The center of agile is … ” [ 2015 ] Ward Cunningham " "I have seen my ideas diluted as they diffused through the industry". You said "I’d much rather move to the next idea than struggle to keep the last idea pure." [ 2011 ] Martin Fowler Jim Highsmith - Don’t “Control” Agile Projects Agile Bureaucracy: When Practices become Principles Andrew Hunt