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Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
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Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed

by Barry Boehm, Richard Turner
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 45m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix B. Manifesto for Agile Software Development

© 2001, the above authors. This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.

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.

Kent Beck

Mike Beedle

Arie van Bennekum

Alistair Cockburn

Ward Cunningham

Martin Fowler

James Grenning

Jim Highsmith

Andrew Hunt

Ron Jeffries ...

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