Agile History

In February 2001, 17 seasoned senior software developers met in Snowbird, Utah. These developers shared a passion for finding better ways of building software and a passion for sharing their thoughts and methodologies with the software development community. The meeting's goal was to find and articulate the common principles, if any, that underpin the various lightweight software development methodologies that the group had been using to manage their software development projects.

The lightweight software development methodologies were conceived, born, and nurtured because the group was frustrated with the classic engineering and project management approaches to software development. The classic approaches often failed, some with spectacularly embarrassing and very public negative results.