Foreword
By 2001, the software industry was in trouble—more projects were failing than succeeding. Customers began demanding contracts with penalties and sending work offshore. Some software developers, though, had increasing success with a development process known as “lightweight.” Almost uniformly, these processes were based on the well-known iterative, incremental process.
In February 2001, these developers issued a manifesto—the Agile Manifesto. The Manifesto called for Agile software development based on four principle values and twelve underlying principles. Two of the principles were 1) to satisfy customers through early and continuous delivery of working software, and 2) to deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks ...
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