Happy 20th Birthday, Agile

Happy 20th Birthday, Agile

11th-13h February 2001, 17 (was gonna be 18 but a female from London, UK couldn’t make it) men gathered to write down — or ‘Manifest’ — their beliefs and thoughts as to how to organise work, organise people and speed up work in terms of regular delivery of value to delight the people they were working with.

It’s a philosophy — a set of guiding mental models that guide us how to think and behave in a sea of uncertainty and complexity, harnessing change for the customer’s competitive advantage, and guiding us to try to simplify…