The Birth of Agile
Agile development methods have been talked about and practiced for over two decades now. The Agile Manifesto came about when a bunch of men, all prominent in software development, got together at a ski retreat in Utah to do some critical analysis on why IT projects were getting such a bad name. They looked back at the previous 10 years of software delivery throughout the '90s and concluded IT projects were taking too long to execute, coming over budget, and often not delivering value to end users. So these men sat down at the end of their trip and wrote the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
We know what you're thinking: this manifesto thing must have been a massive document! A huge book filled with detailed instructions on how to write software as well as how to manage requirements and costs. In fact, it was much simpler than this—so simple you could almost fit it in a tweet!
Figure 12.4: The manifesto for Agile...
