The Agile manifesto was written 16 years ago during a meeting at a Snowbird, Utah ski resort, and it still dictates how much of the tech world does business. A new Atlantic article brings us inside the meeting of the 17 men (it is unclear whether any women were invited) who wrote the 68-word declaration of values that argues for shorter blocks of product development and an openness toward changing the product at any stage. Agile largely replaced the Waterfall philosophy in tech, a more rigid, linear system that often prevented developers from fixing problems until it was too late. Over the course of 15 years, the Agile manifesto added more than 20,000 online signatures. Today the Agile philosophy is used by tech companies like Spotify, as well as non-tech corporate giants like Walmart.
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