The Founding of the Agile Alliance. These are my own personal recollections. I’m probably wrong about some of it. If any of the other folks involved have a clearer memory of the events, please don’t hesitate to comment. In the spring of 2000 Kent Beck called a meeting at the Rogue River Lodge near his home in Medford, Oregon.
He called it the . In attendance were: myself, Ron Jeffries, Ken Auer, Martin Fowler, and several others who had been instrumental in getting the XP movement off the ground. In one of the sessions we discussed the creation of an organization to drive and support the adoption of XP. This was an idea that I argued in favor of. Apparently I was not alone. In the meantime I contacted my friend and advisor Dave Thomas of OTI fame. Later that fall I met with Martin at a cafe in Chicago. The invitation drew an enthusiastic response from the invitees. Alistair became the de-facto organizer.
The meeting was very well attended by 17 out of ~20 invitees. One of the early discussions was about a . Scrum Methodology & Agile Scrum Methodologies. Scrum.org | Training, Assessments, Certifications - Scrum.org. History: The Agile Manifesto. On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common groundand of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile Software Development Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened.
Now, a bigger gathering of organizational anarchists would be hard to find, so what emerged from this meeting was symbolica Manifesto for Agile Software Developmentsigned by all participants. The only concern with the term agile came from Martin Fowler (a Brit for those who dont know him) who allowed that most Americans didnt know how to pronounce the word agile.
Alistair Cockburns initial concerns reflected the early thoughts of many participants. . ©2001 Jim Highsmith. Agile Alliance.