The death of Agile? Bullocks!

Ah! That was just a catchy title, Hey hey, my my, Agile can never die!

But somebody thinks that agilists are falling, declining…

I think agile is evolving, changing, have a look to the just newly created Software Craftsmanship manifesto here or the the New Left Side as the groups also calls it. It’s quite an evolution from the well known Agile Manifesto

As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional
software development by practicing it and helping others learn the
craft.  Through this work we have come to value:

well-crafted software                   over working software                   over comprehensive documentation
steadily adding value                  over responding to change               over following a plan
a community of professionals     over individuals and interactions       over processes and tools
impressing our customer            over customer collaboration             over contract negotiation

That is, while we still value the items in the middle over the items on
the right, we value the items on the left even more.

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2 Comments

  1. Posted February 13, 2009 at 7:54 pm | Permalink

    toni -
    You must be following the conversation on the Software Craftsmanship list http://groups.google.com/group/software_craftsmanship

    Just to clarify, this manifesto is by no means final. We are having a pretty lively discussion about it and software craftsmanship in general on the list.

  2. Posted February 13, 2009 at 9:34 pm | Permalink

    Sure Doug,
    Since the page was public I just thought I could link it, is not final but is a clear signal that agile is alive, up and running!

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