Reflections on the 10 Years Since the Agile Manifesto
by Mike Cohn, 11 February 2011 | The Agile Blogosphere
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the start of the meeting that resulted in the Agile Manifesto. Much has changed in the ten years since the Agile Manifesto. Back then, the processes encompassed by the Manifesto—Extreme Programming, Scrum, DSDM, Feature-Driven Development, and others—existed only on the fringes of the software development world. It was, therefore, easy to dismiss them as being inappropriate for real-life application.
Even in my own division, we questioned our decision to use Scrum. After all, most of the buzz in those days was about the Unified Process. There was this feeling in the air that if you weren’t doing the Unified Process, perhaps you should be. We had been tremendously successful with Scrum yet were filled with doubt—would we have been even more successful if we used a complete methodology instead of this little toy of a process called Scrum? After all, we didn’t know anyone else doing Scrum and the term “agile software development” didn’t exist. When the whole world seemed to be moving toward a “unified process,” it was hard not to wonder if you were the only ones who weren’t.
