Appendix A. The Agile Software Development Manifesto

“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.”

Seventeen advocates of lightweight development processes gathered in Utah in early 2001 to discuss what they might have in common, or if they would just agree to disagree. I was one of them.

We agreed that the word lightweight was too much of a reaction against something and ...

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