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Manifest Destiny
Ian Whittingham, PMP is director of Calixo Consulting, providing project and program management expertise from initiation through to implementation, covering business transformation, workflow process re-engineering, and enterprise data integration. He is a regular contributor to ProjectManagement.com. You may contact Ian directly at [email protected].
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! Manifestos are famous--some might say, infamous--for their fighting talk, as a call to arms and a cause to rally around. They capture and crystallize a pivotal turning point in human endeavor, a revolutionary break with the past. Their aspirations are cast in combatively heroic slogans. But no matter what words they use, the underlying message they proclaim is always the same: The future has arrived!
Over the course of three days in February 2001, the future of software development arrived--or so it seemed to the 17 signatories who put their names to the more modest language that staked that claim. A small group of practitioners representing various alternative software development methodologies--such as extreme programming, SCRUM, feature-driven development and the like--gathered at the Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah to discuss issues and to seek common ground among these alternatives.
Collectively, they felt that the moment had arrived to assert an emerging commonality among these alternative approaches and to break away from the old way of doing things. And so--as all revolutionaries do--under the collective banner of the Agile Alliance, each put their name to a document declaring their firm belief in “uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it …
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