AGILE 101

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001 by seventeen independent-minded software practitioners . While the participants didn’t agree about much, they found consensus around four main values.

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

© 2001, the Agile Manifesto authors
This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.

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Manifesto Authors

  • Kent Beck
  • Mike Beedle
  • Arie van Bennekum
  • Alistair Cockburn
  • Ward Cunningham
  • Martin Fowler
  • Robert C. Martin
  • Steve Mellor
  • Dave Thomas
  • James Grenning
  • Jim Highsmith
  • Andrew Hunt
  • Ron Jeffries
  • Jon Kern
  • Brian Marick
  • Ken Schwaber
  • Jeff Sutherland

12 Principles of Agile Software

Supplementing the Agile Manifesto are these twelve principles that further explain agility.

Translation Initiative

Our vision is to bring the Agile Manifesto to the rest of the world!

See the list of current translations at agilemanifesto.org.