What is the Agile Manifesto?

Looking for a context that supports the Agile manifesto? An event that gave rise to the Agile movement in software development. John McFadyen runs us through what the Agile Manifesto means in today's context.

The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001 by a team of 17 very bright and experienced software engineers. Their goal was to create a new way of working that cut through all the red tape and impediments which traditional waterfall style project management produced.

Traditional project management worked just fine in complicated environments such as engineering and civil engineering but as soon as their was a great deal of complexity, volatility, uncertainty and ambiguity, the traditional way of working created more problems than solutions.

The Agile manifesto was a set of 4 values and 12 principles that articulated what was necessary for a team to thrive when creating software.

You can view the Agile Manifesto on agilemanifesto.org/

Over the past 20 years, more and more companies have experienced the same problems with traditional project management that the early pioneers of Agile experienced and have turned to Agile as a potential solution to that problem.

Agile itself has evolved a great deal over the past 20 years and continues to evolve as better ways of working integrate with the concept of Business Agility across the organisation.

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