All Signatories

Chet Hendrickson: (http://www.hendricksonxp.com) Co-author of Extreme Programming Installed Jared Richardson: (Incellico, Inc.) Alan Francis: (Extreme Programmer) Frank Westphal: (independent consultant) For me, the agile methods are about bringing back the enjoyment to developing successful software in close collaboration with my clients, the very reasons most of us came to programming computers in the first place. Thanks, folks! I'm proud to be part of a new beginning... Tim Burns: (Owl Mountain Software) I support the agile alliance manifesto because it supports working iteratively on a project and addressing defects on different granularities. If you code test-first, then you are iteratively applying tests that address fine-grained defects. If you do acceptance testing, then you validate that the fine-grained tests work together to implement the feature. If you release often, then you validate that the features together implement a product that is useable, robust, and serves the customers' needs. Irene Shaw. William C. Wake: (http://www.xp123.com) Ken Auer: (RoleModel Software, Inc.) Co-author of "Extreme Progamming Applied: Playing to Win" and founder of RoleModel Software, the first eXtreme Programming Software Studio(TM) where we work with our customers to turn their innovative concepts into reality. James Newkirk: (Thoughtworks, Inc.) Jim Little: (Titanium I.T. LLC) Jens Coldewey: (Coldewey Consulting) I support this alliance because I think it's one of the most powerful movements in the past, combining technical excellence with a humane perspective. If we understand that work is not (only) technique but living together with other humans, professional life would be much easier. Stephen K. Smith: After years of involvement with software development processes that have a high failure rate, I have seen something that works beyond any expectation. In my admittedly limited experience with the Agile approach, I have found that with these light methodologies it is easier to write code that is more simple, more maintainable, more testable, and more defect free, all in less time than it takes to go through a heavy weight process. Accepting the inevitability of change prevents putting lots of time and effort into building complex "reusable" code that will just be replaced anyway. Processes, tools, documentation, contract negotiations, and plans all have their place. I really believe success will be more likely if we put them back in their proper place. Chad Fowler: (AVeryLargeUnNamedCompany) Agile methods are less about software construction and more about humans working together and communicating. No matter what field you're in, there's something to learn here. Zhenrong Liu. William E. Caputo: (ThoughtWorks Inc.) Jeff McKenna: (McKenna Consulting Group) I support the human centered values that the Manifest embodies. Companies that support these values will be the success stories of the 21st century. Glenn Vanderburg: (Delphi Consultants, LLC) David West: (New Mexico Highlands University) Dane Falkner: (DSDM North America) The world is changing ever faster (largely because of software) making the meticulous methods used to build previous generations of software obsolete. Speed, evolved tools & technology, better developers and better users demand agility. Jennifer Stapleton: (DSDM Consortium) Ann Anderson: Co-author Extreme Programming Installed Kenneth Pugh: (Pugh-Killeen Associates) In training developers in new technologies over the past twenty years, we have emphasized many of the principles of the agile alliance. In particular, we have stressed the importance of the individual over the process or the tool. Klaus Marius Hansen: (Ideogramic ApS) Herb Schuette: (Peloros) Sound principles for my staff, clients and students. David M. Spann: (CoreComm LLC) As the MBA Director at Westminster College, a consultant in collaborative work environments, and an interested community member, I applaud the simplistic but deeply meaningful work you've accomplished. Did you know the derivation of community is "Common-Unity"? Ernest Koe: (inResonance) David Mitchell: (iBase Systems) In my experience, the most successful software development projects have been those where the team has incorporated these principles and ideals into their daily pratices. Marcos Leandro Nonemacher: (Ciss Automaçăo Comercial) David Makogon: (Visual Networks) Sylvia Cornette: (ITS Services, Inc.) human values + agile methods = sw project success. That's the future I love to live in and support! Julio Mazariegos. Laurent Bossavit: (JustaDeveloper) Paradigms are shifting. Not only in "mere" software development, but in the "sciences of design" as a whole; those concerned with explaining and taming systems as diverse as living organisms; the human mind, self, and societies; and that most intricate product of the mind that is software. The Agile Alliance stands as a signal example of what this shift in values and viewpoints is capable of achieving. Bill Clapes: (Clapes & Associates, Inc.) I fully support the inclusive and collaborative nature of the Agile Manifesto. Development teams must work hand-in-hand with business knowledge owners to acquire a clear vision of the business intent for an application and must be open to the fact that the business intent can change. Jonas Ivarsson: (Consafe Infotech) I think the four statements exactly catch the essence of what modern software development is about. I fully support the manifesto. Sven Gorts: These values, although often overlooked, remind us what software development is all about. Ron Crocker: Focus on application of agile methods towards large-scale software projects. Frank Funderburk. Maurizio Tripi: (Ca.St.) Francesco Mondora: (Mindview Italy) I support the agile alliance manifesto because it can give benefits to the customer and developers. In our company we work applying Agile Methodologies and we are gaining a lot of benefits. The iterational model and the defeacts addressing make an Agile Developing Life Cycle. In this way customer needs are kept in mind by everyone. Thanks to all those "guru" who are thinking about quality software and quality methodologies. Francesco Mondora Cameron Sutherland. Murray White: (American Management Systems, Inc.) I most recently used Agile Process methods in coaching a team of 30 developers and 15 testers to develop the first phase of the Illinois SACWIS application - you can read about it www.ams.com/ State_and_LocalGov/ Downloads/ IllinoisSACWISv2.pdf. The application just entered acceptance testing with no defects. We built it in about 5 months from when I started applying Agile techniques. We are now focusing on going full scale Agile - some variation of Crystal Orange - for the second phase of the project. If you face a project with uncertain requirements and significant time-to-market pressure, Agile works *and* your teams will probably be happier too. I am a delivery-oriented software development professional. Sign me up as an Agile zealot ;-) Dave Astels: (Saorsa Development Inc.) Having worked in a variety of development shops with process ranging from fairly ad hoc to oppressive, I've found by experience and experimentation that the most enjoyable and most productive situations have been those that take an approach to development that follows the ideals set forth in the Agile Manifesto. Hans Wegener: (Swiss Re) Tammo Freese. Manuel J Apalisok II: Let's do it. Olaf Kock: (abstrakt gmbh) The comeback of common sense and fun to the workplace. We simply enjoy to work 'agile' and hope to bring this feeling into our customers organizations. Martin Mueller-Rohde: (agile Software & Consulting GmbH) Alexander Schmid: (http://home...alex.schmid/) Dierk König: (Canoo Enigineering AG) There is nothing like a real team, that includes developers, customer and management. Christine Moore: (Caribou Lake Software) Caribou is a custom software development consulting organization located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are practicing and promoting the Agile Alliances principles as well as the XP practies. We are also committed to equipping our clients to do the same! Marco Dorantes: (*Own experience*) Methods and techniques that really help in the trenches, where the software actually is created Stefan Schmiedl: (Approximity GmbH) Afik Gal. Alexander Kjerulf: (Enterprise Systems) Dan Johnsson: (Frobozz AB) Interhuman collaboration between developer and user in focus; not administration and formalities. Martin Lippert: (Workplace Solutions GmbH) Thomas Hetzer: (develop group) That is the way how software should be developed. I fully support the manifesto. Stephan Wiesebach: (Siemens AG) After long and heavy fights between the process gurus representing the light-, heavy- or middleweight processes we now have a metaphor to support "common-sense-behaviour" in software projects. IMHO the "agile"-metaphor complements the thoughts about improving processes with process patterns nicely. Jutta Eckstein: (Objects in Action) I support the agile alliance manifesto, because it supports finally bringing back the processes to the people. Luc Duranleau: (ICI Design) For many years I was psychologically harassed for my unorthodox ways of driving software engineering projects. I never used any prescribed method or very elaborate documentation schemes, especially if it meant cutting down trees to produce 6 inch binders that quickly got lost on some shelf. Essentially, my approach to software design has always been based on verbal communication with all knowledge levels; anyone who could enrich the comprehensive perspective of the goals to attain and the long term vision to respect. Always striving to attain that momentum and motivation that nourrishes the instinct for initiative and willpower that inevitably determines the success of the software endeavor. I encourage any interaction that will enlighten those lonely isolated software developers in their small yet infinite kingdoms. Software design is a crystal-like reflection of the cohesiveness of this diversity of minds. I am very happy to hear I am no longer alone in this quest for simplicity of design for simplicity of life. Luc Gilbert Semmer. Sabine Noack: (43 - Sabine Noack) One of the most important aspects of my work as a trainer and consultant is to remind people that developing software is not simply an act of industrial production. The Agile Alliance Manifesto tells us why software development is different and what we should consider to make it successfull as well as enjoyable. Andreas Stankewitz: (Naradana) Agile software development - because software development is working with people, not working with resources. Patrick Morrison: (Virtual Pragmatics) 19 years experience programming professionally convince me that the values expressed in the agile manifesto produce the best software and the best releationships between business and techs. The successes I've seen in my career link to the values expressed, and the failures often tie to valuing something else. Sriram: (Icode ) Ulrich Winter: I hope that an agile process is able to remove the overhead and dissatisfaction which I currently feel in my projects. michele mondora: (mindview) One manifesto to agile them all! (Lord of Rings) Matthieu Colas-Bara: (KHIPLEA) The rules of the Agile Manifesto formalize what happens naturally when people of good will do their best to collaborate and succeed in software developpement. Object developpers know it from the beginning, it's now time to educate managers. Alex Rush: (ExperShare) I come from somewhat of a more traditionalist "heavyweight" development method background, and am on a constant mission to pare down to only the essential artifacts and activities necessary to deliver quality code. I support the basic aims of the Manifesto, and look forward to its evolution. Martin Gottschalk: (OmnesWeb) People must work together to have fun and success. I like it. Berthold Schreiber: (OmnesWeb) Peter Gassmann. Kirill Maximov: (maxkir.com) Chad Kopca: (5/3 Bancorp) Now all I have to do is inject the truth. amouda: (Pondicherry University) I am interested to become a member of Agile software Development Manifesto. Chris Pilsworth: (Gedas United Kingdom Ltd.) Ozgur Aksakal: (http://www.ozgur-aksakal.com) To build better software that meets requirements, and behaves as expected. Everett A. Warren: The values may seem simple and commonsense, but since when was commonsense very common? Agreeing with these values and actually putting them into practice are two different things, and I'm very glad to be in a position where I can push for the latter and come up with some better software. Klaus Marquardt: It is no secret: in a healthy project, the process follows the people and their needs, not vice versa. Every stakeholder in a software project can learn from this. Barry Fazackerley: (DSDM) As chairman of the DSDM Consortium I am proud that DSDM is associated with Agile. DSDM is built upon nine principles. The Agile values of Individuals and interactions, Working software, Customer collaboration and Responding to change align themselves very closely to the DSDM Principles. Richard Couch: Preaching and teaching the Agile way. Pete Clark: (pclark.net Consulting, LLC) The ideas expressed by XP and agile methods encompass ideas that have felt right since I started managing software projects. It's great to see more attention being paid to understanding how to make software development go in the real world - where requirements aren't fixed, where change is a fact of life, and where the development team needs all the help it can get. Eric Thoman: (Manchester JUG) Focus on quality and quantity will take care of itself... Daniel Read: (developer.*) I agree wholeheartedly. Robb Gilmore: (Descartes Systems Group) Over the years, I have arrived at many of the very same conclusions that are so succinctly stated by the Agile Alliance. It is refreshing (and much more efficient) to point colleagues to the Agile Manifesto rather than repeating the same old stump speeches time and time again! I support the manifesto. Grigori Melnik: (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)) Eureka! Roger Marlow: (m.a.partners) As a software developer and more recently a development manager, my most successful projects have used aspects of Agile Methods, although I didn't have a name for it at the time. Even so, for a long time the prevailing methods were frustrating bureaucratic failures. It seemed that the common sense and essentially agile approach espoused by Fred Brooks all those years ago would fade into history while modern methodologists espoused 'fat book' processes. Agile Methods are therefore a refreshing return to common sense basics. They bring together the best of the experiences we have all been through in software development and that we have informally known about for years. At last we have a self consistent framework for all our anecdotal evidence from successful projects. I believe that the advent of Agile Methods signal a revolution in the software development industry and promise exciting times for us all. peter gabris: (bsp) as good as it gets Robert S. Teich - President: (Software Teknovations, Inc.) Developing applications solely from written descriptions of a client’s needs results in a product that does not capture the subtleties of what the client really wants. Only through constant involvement in the entire development process can the client learn what can be achieved. Embracing these discoveries leads to a more solid product. This process is reflected in the Agile Manifesto. I back and support it completely. Daryl Winters: (Component Architects) balachandar: (CGI) I am very much interested Peter Lindberg: (Oops AB, Sweden) Yes! Edward Atwell. R.Bruinsma: (Bugando) I fully agree to your statements. I'm inclined to write here many pages of thoughts on this subject, but I save that for my thesis on the subject. Anyone who is willing to collaborate in writing a thesis is invited to send me an mail about the subject. Marcelo Schenone: (FIUBA) Ralph W. Boaz: (Pillar Consulting) I have filled a lot of roles in my career including software engineering, ministry, and senior management. Agile development is a breakthrough in understanding the keys to success and failure. It is the first to really address the people element which has been ignored for so long. Thank you to the Agile founders. Scott Bechtel: (Conquest Solutions Group) After being in projects that always drag in over due it has been fun learning about this new approach! Mario Wittler. Shawn Lyndon: (ePredix) I feel like one of those people on a talk show when I talk about Agile Development to people new to the concepts and ideals. In all honesty, I don't know how I managed the software development process before these very practical and customer focused ideals where brought together under one banner. We are I am certain seeing a very big change in how people approach software development and design. Putting the businnes need or problem above the implementation detail is a key goal in our efforts in our company. Or as we like to generalize ... Find the 'Why?' and the 'What?' ... The 'How?' is not so important. Erik Groeneveld: (CQ2) As consultant working in the Netherlands, I'm using the AAM principles as a starting point for organizing my projects. Amazing to see how many organizations just skip team and customer collaboration and put all their faith on heavy processes. In 2000, Willem van den Ende and I installed the Dutch XP group: www.xp-nl.org. Sean Barnett: Accepted wisdom is that the low success rate with adoption of "heavyweight" methods is a failing of the profession. It's heartening to see more and more colleagues arguing the contrary - it is the methods that are flawed, for they demand that people embrace what they find difficult at the expense of what people do well (i.e., communicate). Thomas Vollmer. Steve Hayes: (Khatovar Technology) I believe that creating software is an act of shared discovery, performed by people, for people. We won't be satisfied as developers, and we won't have satisfied customers, until we learn to value the social and technical sides of our craft equally. The Agile Manifesto is an important first step in reforging the craft of software development. John D'Arcy: (IT Practice) Joel Rieder: I support the agile Manifesto. I am working hard to convince my organization that process for the sake of process (design for the sake of process, etc.) just doesn't work. I have found we have forgotten whom we build software for (i.e. the "customer") and agile works to improves this relationship. Shailesh M. Sonavadekar: (TEIL) Jarmo Miettinen: (MoreMagic) Bill Kunz: Though I'm a PMP, I fully embrace the manifesto and am looking forward to an agile future! Tobias Fors: (Citerus) Becoming and staying and open-minded ever-communicating software developer is not an easy task. On the other hand, it is not impossible either. The existence of the manifesto shows us that it can be done, and tells us something about the results we can expect when we walk the right path. Volodymyr Bezprozvanniy: (Programm-Art Studio) All of my life I worked in that manner and now I had been very plaeasant to know that my special manner to work with my customers became THE NAME of Agile Programming !!! I have to say you only that: My (ours) programs are not is quite The Program Product, but they work hard at their places. So especially I support that manner of programming. The first: needs of my customer, the second - other things. With my pleasure to my Customers and colegues. Volodymyr Bezprozvanniy www.programm-art.com Tim Weiland: I have come up with three principles for software development that I believe in: [1] Software Development process should follow a "path of least resistence" which supports (not hinders) the ability for developers to produce quality code that meets customer requirements. [2] Albert Einstein's quote is applicable: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (I prefer it over "K.I.S.S.") [3] Take responsibility for your actions: You break it, you fix it - but I can certainly help you. (especially good for aspiring developers) I feel the light-weight processes of the Agile movement provide the framework (rules and steps) for me to work within my principles. Jon Allen: (Jon K Allen, Inc.) The successes experienced in 20+ years as an application developer have been directly related to how closely I followed the principles now espoused in the "Agile Manifesto". I learned these principles the hard way, through trial and error. It gives great satisfaction to know that they are beginning to receive the recognition they deserve. I extend kudos to the framers of this manifesto. I am delighted to add my support. Jens Richnow: (MakeTXT.com and ScieSoft) Back to common sense! Makes software development in all its facets and phases to feel like a worthwhile and enjoyable experience. Ron Tolido: (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) As the author of IAD (Iterative Application Development, one of the 'early' agile development approaches) I can do nothing else than fully endorse the excellent principles behind the Agile Manifesto. Volatility is here to stay! Ramakrishnan J: Simply wonderful. Every IT Organization should chant this Manifesto every day and adhere to it. Vickoff Jean-Pierre: (Méthode RAD France) Sean Heston: (Sprint PCS) Common sense SDLC philosophy. What a concept. Russ Schlicht: This is a straight-forward, no-nonsense approach to software development. Agile Development makes so much sense in practice, as to make any other approach almost laughable. Don't lose sight of your customer! James Todd: the truth ... plain and simple. Scott Thornock: (Drive Development Corporation) Kay Johansen: (NTT/Verio) As a QA Manager in an Internet company, I am very interested in the ability to increase quality of software without sacrificing agility of process. Paul Henrichsen: (Drive Development) Jon Meyer. Joerg Reuter: (Crosspoint Consulting AG) Bernd Oestereich: (oose.de GmbH) Author of "Developing Software with UML" Addison Wesley OT series (2nd ed. 2002) and some other books in german language. Hayder M. Abood. Chad Nantais: (Rednaxel Interactive) Customers can gain and enjoy competitive advantage by having wokring software that is scaleable and customized to not simply address their needs but to their way of evolving. The Agile principles create a flexible framework which guides the development process and creates new possibilities for achieving vital goals. Patrick Callahan: Has anything less than this ever resulted in true customer satisfaction with the result. I fully subscribe to these principles and encourage thier adoption in the organizations I belong to. Andrea Lambruschini. Damith C. Rajapakse: (hSenid Software Intl) A great effort to push the industry towards more pragmatic methodologies. I hope that this is only the beginning of a great journey. I'm with it, all the way!! Jřrgen Larsen: (Homepage) I fully support the Agile Manifesto! Jef Knutson: The manifesto is a crucial statement. As a prescriptive statement of sw development values, it affirms that people who develop sw for computers do so as people, not as computers. Phil Rossomando: (Unisys) I would like to participate in this effort from the standpoint of people being the most important resource. Too much lip service is given to this phrase. It's about time that our industry came to realize that it's not only technology that makes a project successful but the people involved. That we must count on eachother to get the job done and if we can't, all the technology in the world will not do the job. While I too am against make work I also believe that that methodology which we do have must be understood and used properly. Like the people as most valuable resource phrase, most companies use the term methodology without understanding what it is. We must think smarter in the software industry and we must learn to appreciate what we each bring to the table. Ronald Willems: (Ordina Finance Utopics) Neal McWhorter: (BeggsHeidt Enterprise Consulting) As a practitioner of "Agile Process" from before the term was coined, I am optimistic that a core of skilled practicioners can help bring pragmatic process to the industry and by doing so, overcome the barriers to transforming chaos into inspiration. Norman Rekitt: There is only one way to develop software. Without Fear. Without Ego. With Speed. With Agility. With You. Nabil Elhage. Lex Borger: (CMG) The manifesto puts into words what we intuitively practiced or wanted to practice. It is not about getting stuck in explicit process and requirements, but about dynamic collaboration and a willingness to change. Reflecting upon my career, the projects I am most proud of are indeed the projects that embraced most of these values. John J Lombardi: (Manhattan Group) Remember: "Knowing the path is one think... Walking it is another..." The simplest things are sometime the hardest to accomplish and also the keys to success. Omar Garcia: (University of Wollongong) I could not agree more Anton A. Mints: (AOT N.V.) Christopher R. Gardner. Tim Bacon: (Prime Eight) The agile manifesto sets out what the most productive programming teams have understood for years. I hope that its emphasis on practical common sense spreads beyond this site and its founders, into the heart of the software development community. Holger Knublauch: (FAW Ulm) I am currently finishing my PhD thesis on the application of agile processes to the development of knowledge-based systems and multi-agent systems. My results have been successfully validated in an XP course in which I acted as coach. We particularly came to value pair programming and testing for the development of a clinical multi-agent system. Please check my homepage for details. Micah Martin: (Object Mentor, Inc.) Warner Gouin, CSI: Values worth applying daily although I am not seeking a new Religion. Eduardo Flores. Mary-Ellen Harrison: (snowdolphin) Focusing on delivering value just makes sense to me. Channing Walton: I strongly support the principles of the agile alliance and its manifesto. Software development desperately needs these new and bold ideas if it is to move away from the sad state it finds itself in today. The principles of the alliance is the way forward. Michael Finney: (mission in life) My mission in life is to use my strongest skills which I most enjoy using, in a place I am called to be, satisfying a hunger the world has. The Agile Manifesto is a declaration of using our skills to the fullest, anywhere we're called, and satisfying the world's hunger for great software. The actualization of its potential is not always easy, but it is the next step in our evolution. Muralidhar Gopalakrishna. Vidar Gunstvedt: I have during the last 3-4 years discovered and promoted the principles behind the Agile Alliance as the ONLY workable way of developing and promoting software. I fully support you! Björn Ek: (DSDM-Consortium Sweden) The Agile Manifesto is the perfect way to stress the basic issues that are the very foundation of methods like DSDM. THIS is the future of software-development. Lance Walton: (http:// easyweb.easynet.co.uk/ ~lilliput/lance) Piergiuliano Bossi: (Quinary) The value of agile principles goes well beyond the scope of being more effective, more productive or more efficient. Srinivas Thouta. Tim Breitkreutz: (Software Brewmasters) ugo landini: All that heavy stuff is just cumbersome... do they think programmers are only pawns or what? Daniel Stephan: (mobidata GmbH) Every developer should put this manifesto over his/her desk as a reminder. Anuraag Awasthi: A happy employee means a happy customer. A happy employee exhudes team spirit and collaboration within the team, with the customer and the end users. Moreover, software is made for people and by people. This people focus has been missing in traditional approaches. An Agile approach understands this basic truth. Salvatore Lentini: (Mandarin Software) I am an independent consultant in NYC, concentrating most of my software development in various trading systems in C++ and JAVA. I have read and enjoyed the documents concerning the Agile Manifesto. I agree with the manifesto but often find it difficult to work through the steps mentioned because of obvious reasons...people are inpredicable, business units don't want to spend money, many IT managers are from the old school of thought( mainframes, cobol, etc ). I guess you see where I am getteing at. But I hope to read more interesting articles on the Manifesto in the near future. Bill Campbell. Paul Allton. Bill Barnett. Mitch Amiano: It is said that life innovates by making many cheap mistakes, allowing the cost of individual failures to approach zero. The values reflected by the Agile Manifesto will have a similar effect. Prioritizing people, relationships, outcomes, and effectiveness can hardly be called "common sense" in an industry populated by introverted theorists and as yet dominated by cold war management styles. The Agile Manifesto deserves our recognition and support. Jean-Hugues ROBERT. Matt Scilipoti: (Possiamo Consulting LLC) Thank you for lighting the fire. Not only does it light the way a little, but the sparks get me up off my bum. The ideas you are sharing have brought a new level of energy to software development. Georg Sehl: During several years in Software Quality Assurance I always have felt that there must be more about testing software than putting test cases and bugs on file, writing huge documents and tuning sophisticated processes. The agile approach points the way ahead. ZJ Chen: (SRS2, Inc) Andrew Rosenfeld: The grassroots effort behind agile methods is quite impressive, and in time hopefully academia and management will see the agile perspective as a valid, respectable alternative. The existing agile processes have yet to evolve and mature... it should prove to be an interesting journey. Joshua Reynolds: Me too. Carrie Biles: (Aegis Software Inc.) Aegis Software Inc. supports and employs the Agile Software development methodology. Jos Warmer: (Klasse Objecten) As co-author of the UML standard people usually think I love large and detailed models. The contrary is true, a model is only worth building if it directly helps to achieve the final goal: building a working system. With the emergence of MDA tools, it becomes possible to directly move from model to code. This "promotes" models from being merely documentation to becoming part of the delivered software, just like the source code. Bo Leuf: (Leuf Consultancy) Author of The Wiki Way (Addison-Wesley 2001, with Ward Cunningham) and Peer to Peer (Addison-Wesley 2002), my focus has generally been on the communicative and collaborational aspects. Web site management and software development has long been aligned with the manifesto princples. Tim Woodard: (Diamond Visionics Company) What's the alternative? Jeff Grigg: “People are more important than process.” Paul Clanton: (http://home.earthlink.net/~pclanton ) As an IT business management consultant, IT manager, software development manager and project manager, I have found the beliefs and principle of the Agile Alliance to be applicable for any IT related project. I am proud to support the manifesto and the principles behind them. Rich McCabe: (Software Productivity Consortium) Here at the Consortium we've been supporting CMM/CMMI-related work and services for many years. Yet, even though our members perform the very large military/government projects that cannot do without the "heavy weight" methodologies, it has become obvious that many other member projects have a crying need for an agile approach, and we have been recommending it, as appropriate. Cockburn makes the case very well that there is a place for both light- and heavy-weight methodologies in this world, although agility is an important quality to consider on any project (and overall has not been receiving sufficient emphasis -- hopefully proponents of agile thinking can improve the situation). Steven Vetzal: (Three Wise Men) Agile programming offers the best methodologies for web projects, where relevance is often measured in days and weeks, rather than years. Traditional top-heavy design can miss the mark, or create over-complicated systems that require too much time to build or require too much hardware to deploy. Thomas Eichberger: (Thomas Eichberger GmbH) Justin Sampson. Aaron Sansone: As a software developer and consultant, I have found that Agile development is the Mecca I have been searching for. Peter Hansen: (Kaval Wireless Technologies Inc) Director of Software Engineering. I believe agile approaches (in our case XP) are revolutionizing software development. More important to me is that my team is making much more progress, producing higher quality code, and having more fun (less stress) than ever before with non-agile approaches. Trond Wingard. Charley Rego: (ZixIt) Ndehi Karonjo: (Solutions 2000) We have been practising alot of extreme programming but we did not know it was a methodology that had a name. We kinda stumbled into parts of it. The following has been particularly useful. - Bringing a senior Clients representative into the team. Working side by side with a client's rep allows fast decisions to be made, produces the best design and better acceptance by the other users. Its also a great way to make long lasting friends. - Paired Programming always produces better and more practical code. Conding standards are easier to keep when people are working together. - Courageous refactoring. If the code is bad then it should immediately be rewritten. I'd like to learn more on agile methodogies Bryan Dollery: (Chaos Engineers) Way Cool Marc Evers. Fernando Femenim Santos: (Sinfic - Sistemas de Informaçăo Industrial e Consultoria, SA) Keith Landrus. Sri K Ganjam: (SemanticSpace Technologies Ltd) I always used to complain about changing requirements, with Agile methods(XP in my case)I found it easy to adapt myself to the changes and be more productive. Simeon H.K. Fitch: (Mustard Seed Software) Joe Rafter: (IBM Global Services) Clients consistently request functionality and features to be built via applications and systems using multiple technologies. The Agile Manifesto articulates our preferred behaviors to respond to our client's requests. Our solutions, as well as our behaviors, should reflect the spirit of the Agile Manifesto. The manifesto will be exhaulted when we as an industry deliver agile solutions and architectures with agile behaviors to fulfill our client's requests. I am reminded of the saying "the only thing that is constant is change". We should embrace this change with the Agile Manifesto. David Draxten: Simply Wonderful! John Brewer: (Jera Design) I've been using agile methods since early 1998, and XP for the past couple of years. These days I consult in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping companies adopt XP and other agile methods. I maintain the Extreme Programming FAQ, which can be found at: http:// www.jera.com/ techinfo/ xpfaq.html I helped found BayXP, the San Francisco Bay Area XP Users Group. (All users of agile methods are welcome, as are the agile-curious.) http:// www.jera.com/ bayxp/ John McManus: (SchlumbergerSema) I am interested in all aspects of agile design. As an international author in systems management I am also interested in furthering knowledge in systems engineering. Tudor Girba: (home page) How would it be to be passionate about your work? How would it be to go to work and just play? Nice, I think. But how could you convince a manager to let you? Anyway, I think that this site is one of the steps in that direction. Peter Hruschka: (Atlantic Systems Guild) The manifesto put in words what successful projects have experienced but could not explain. Following agile maximes succeeds over formalizing the process. Kareem Qureshi: Yes I think that is one most efficient way of coding. Oscar Espinoza: (EG&G Technical Services, Inc.) Providing excellent services to our customers and client base, while accelerating the quality of flexible code has never been better defined as in the agile programming techniques. IT is and will continue to be challenged by the global, economic and political requirements facing suppliers, venders and customers. Successful shops employ the "3F" practices (functional, fast, flexible) found within the agile programming techniques. IT implementations are successful when business strategies are achieved (customer satisfaction and increase of profit margins). Nanduri, V Rao: (Mascot Systems ltd) I am keen on knowing every aspect of this new movement. I am also keen to contribute to this effort. Please do let me know how I can be a part of this. Marcus Ahnve: (Lecando AB) Padraic Mahon: ( ) Karl Scotland: (BBC Interactive) Thank you! Fan Li: (Merck & Co., Inc) I have been following the movements of lightweight methodologies for a while. And I think they can improve development process for many software projects. Ricardo Bánffy: (http://www.dieblinkenlights.com) We all felt it deep in our hearts there ought to be a better way. Yet, we could not see it, blinded as we were by our firm belief building software was like building bridges. Thank you, folks. We feel much lighter now. Lars Gendner: (Sony NetServices) because it trusts in the competence and autonomy of the individuals participating in a project. John Ng. ben wong. Markus Voelter: (MATHEMA AG) Steve Berczuk: (http://www.berczuk.com) James Ruddock: (The Quetico Group) Joe Parks: (EDS) Nicholas Crown: Software developement is a discipline whose foundation is grounded on the innovation and imagination of the individual engineer. Dwight Wilson: (Independent Consultant) Mayank Tandon: (Webmasters India) I am still in the process of completely imbibing the ideology of Agile manifesto but it seems this is an interesting development that acknowledges the shortcomings of traditional software development models in light of their failure to take into consideration human factors while enabling a highly critical development cycle with common sense. Would be interested in contributing whatever we can to promote the idea.... Fred Ballard. Craig Dewalt: I support the Agile Manifesto because I have a sincere desire to build quality, practical software on time and within budget. Martin Andrews: (Object Oriented Pty. Ltd.) The manifesto describes a set of values that we should all strive to encompass in our daily work. As new ideas and techniques become popular in the changing world of software development, these values can still hold as strong underlying principles. We should ensure that we never lose that focus. Samir Rajguru: This is by far the best way to develop software. Patrick Krook: (Silicon Corn) Agile Methods hold a promise to bring the focus back to what makes development an enjoyable and entelechial pursuit, free from the spectors of "Death by Planning" and other negative solutions. Joerg Seebohn: (http://www.s.netic.de/jseebohn) To find a way of harmony between a set of rules and creative chaos in a satisfactory way for the customers and the developers - this is a divine talent. Celio Vasconcellos: Great !!!! Full support to this alliance is very important in the software industry. After years reading books and experincing x-thousand methodologies in projects, it is time to handle directly with all problems, those known since decades. Mikael Börjesson: (Callista Knowledgebase AB) Rodrigo Furlan: (Elucid Partners SA) Matson Lopes da Silva. Paul Firgens. Hudson Bonomo: Salve! I agree. Ioakeim Tzanetis. Rick Wilkes: (Healthnotes, Inc.) Great success comes from teams who love being responsive and are given an appropriate, liberating context within which to create. Rob Schripsema: (Integra Software and Services) As critical as proper engineering, design and documentation are to the end result, they often place a stranglehold on the more creative, elegant aspects of software development. I've struggled for years with how to balance the two sides. I fully support what the Agile Alliance is doing to help us keep the proper balance! Chris Jordan: (cjaxx) Rogier Hofboer: I have been using this method without knowing its name. It is the only method I have actually seen working. Sanford Redlich: (CNET) Chris Ringrow: (i2i) I strongly agree that the key to successful software development is the team rather than the process. However in order for that to work the team members needs to communicate effectively not only with each other but with customers, managers and investors. At the end of the day it is good communications at all levels that makes a successful project possible. David Intersimone "David I": (Borland Software Corporation) Borland has always been a part of changing the way software is developed. We believe in small teams of developers collaborating together. We also encourage freedom of choice in platforms, open standards, languages, tools, methodologies, and more. David Hicks: (RADTAC Ltd.) Here at RADTAC we help our clients employ the very best IT practices and the very best IT solutions, to deliver real capability improvements and return on investment. Agile methods are vital to this. We wholeheartedly support the Agile Alliance. Marc Elbirt: (Softmarc Canada) It is a better way Ole Erecius: (ChangeGroup) Freedom of mind, flexibility, collaboration, minimal overhead and the strive for results. I love it - just as I love the "dogme" films: www.tvropa.com/ tvropa1.2/ film/ dogme95 Jordi Gonzalez : (Avanade) I agree with the Agile manifest, during my experience as developers I tried to apply with more or less successful the principals of you manifest. Dave Thomas: (Bedarra Corp) Software is built by people supported by tools and a process. The AgileAlliance promotes the Joy of Building Software Together, and promotes best practices. Dave Samanth Athrey. Robert W. Howell: (Independant) I have been using this methodology intuitively for years. It is good to see someone finally put it down in writing. Now I can actually put a name on it when someone asks me what mthodology I favor. I usually work alone or with small teams (less that 5 people) and I have always followed what I called "the Patented (not really) Bob Howell system of software development." ;-) I even used this back in the early eighties when I was programming on Data General Mini's in COBOL. When you think about it, it is really an allegory of the old "The customer is always right." rule of successful business practice. The point is I hate micro-engineering, where you try to completely spec out a project before writing one line of code. I've seen these projects go for two years with zero to show except reams of documents that no one can remember what they are for. My philosophy is, get the basic business process down, then prototype and iterate. Give the customer something to work with other than reams of specs they have to approve. One other thing, It IS important to have a flexible software framework to build on. I have a framework that I have used on several jobs. It evolves some from job to job but it makes development much faster. The framework handles things like user authentication, form and window management, etc. Spend the time up front to engineer a framework you are comfortable with or you may end up with a code base that is unmanageable. As a development manager that should be where you spend your time. Gerry Simblett: (UK Freelance Developer) I am really excited by agile software development. Agile methodologies provide a win-win solution for everyone involved (except for perhaps the pointy-haired bosses of this world!). I thoroughly endorse and try to apply these principles whenever I can. Gab Scali: (Space SpA) Alexandre Junqueira: (INMETRICS) Roland Caron: (Rogue Bear Software) Customer satisfaction thru quality software, a novel concept -lets hope it catches on. ian walker: (spherion) Pete Hanson: As an IT professional of 32 years standing, I have seen processes, tools, and documentation come and go, and there seems to be no end in sight. I am, and have been without realizing it, a long-standing advocate of the Agile Software Development Manifesto, and am very pleased to see rationality and reality being brought back to our profession. Rolando Gabarron: (INTesa) Erik Nyquist: (http://www.nyquist.nu) Author of C++ rules and recommendations. David Knutson: (Ralston Consulting Group) Our work is focused on building collaboration and supporting self-organizing teams. Matteo Regazzi: (Hacking eXtreme Programming) Mike Helmick: (Convergys) It's the only way to program... Jason Yip: (ThoughtWorks, Inc.) Adrian Goh: The Agile Manifesto has my full support. Trusting individuals to get the job done is key. Unfortunately, so many people have a problem with this. Ole Jepsen: (JAOO Academy) I strongly agree!!! Finally someone have expressed words and sentences for the thoughts and feelings I have had about system development for years... I hereby promise, that I will contribute to the "Agile way of thinking" by writing stuff - and when I teach project management cources! Niranjan Perera: (McKesson Information Solutions) Toby Farley: (Mesa County Valley School District #51) Adam Cogan: (Superior Software for Windows) We are a Microsoft Certified Partner and for the last 12 months we have done our development using the XP methodology - http:// www.ssw.com.au/ ssw/methodology/ xpdm.aspx I am a total convert and have spoken at many conferences around the world on the value of eXtreme Programming. Mark Lee: It's the way... and.. Marco Abis. Bob Blonchek: (ActLikeAnOwner) Krishna Menon. Bob Birss. Jack Weintraub: (Citigroup Asset Management) Though we've never tried to name our methods, Agile development is what we do every day. Ken Scott-Hlebek: The Agile Manifesto represents why I am passionate about my craft. My mission of transforming software development into a win-win, joyous collaboration is a goal much larger than I could ever achieve alone. The Agile Alliance has given me access to a community of people who share my passion, values, and commitment. Jorg Janke: (ComPiere, Inc.) Improving Java J2SE (Swing) and J2EE implementations in an Open Source collaborative environment. K.S.Lee: (Sequel Consulting) Larry Dribin: (DePaul University) Development and research in agile processes are important to the future development of software engineering. I focus on helping my students and clients research and develop improved ways of developing software. I believe that agile processes are helping to define new ways of looking at software development. Jonathan House: (Surgeworks) Michael Ross Murphy: (M.R. Murphy Consulting Services Ltd) Jim Gillespie: (Chiara Corporation) Jay Vandewark. Erica Wieland: (FemmeTech Inc.) Michael D. Zirkle: (MSI) Begone Antiqauted Methods! Neil Stamps: (Lost Wax) David Weidenkopf. Igor Guida: (http://www.pedagogia.it) Nathaniel Ersoz: (Myrio Corporation) Gerhard Ebeling: (dvg Hannover) Bert Lancaster: (Unisys) I'm wholeheartedly behind the ideas and principles espoused in the Agile Manifesto. I am constantly striving to lead appropriate decision makers in my organisation towards these ideals. Bernard Mailhol: (B.M. (DP Consultant)) For many years (since the 70' ?) I use that concepts. But I use a marvellous tool : APL (now APL2) which gives freedom to use these development concepts. These developments can produce true applications. One of my custommer have an ISO 9001 qualification - even for his development work. The development process has not been modified for this ISO9001 qualification. Tore Pilloni. Granville Miller: (TogetherSoft) Dody Gunawinata: (AIESEC United States) It's about time to return to common sense in software development. Methodology has its place, but nothing beats the ability of the team/individual to think. Warren McLeod: (Compuware Professional Services) I started somewhat pessimistic until I was forced to be part of an XP pilot project. I witnessed XP creating true partnership between IT and Business. It has initiated higher levels of quality without bearing the load of outdated procedures. Communication is the Achilles heel of every project. Customer and IT interaction on the basest level as an everyday occurrence brings the actual product desired by the customer, on time and on budget. The customer is actually ecstatic. Kudo's to the Agile Alliance for upholding sanity in an insane world. Now I am an avid XP proponent sharing the gospel. Curtis Fell: (Stonebridge Technologies) David Dyke: (Vector TRI) We are committed to agile software development and are practising methodologies such as XP and SCRUM. Where we are successful it is great to see the growing motivation of teams and the "can't do" mentality change to a "can do" culture. Fabrizio Mori: (emmedata srl) Kenneth Duffill: (Light Computing Services Ltd) Wow! And I thought that I was the only lunatic in the world that thought satisfying the customer through actually delivering (working) software was a good idea. Now all we have to do is convince the customers that working software is more important that foot thick documents;-) Dave Hurst: (WAMware) I suppose its fitting that we found the Agile Manifesto long after we had evolved our methods in alignment with it. For better or worse, we don't have to think of ourselves as rogues anymore. Joey Frasier: (Capital Printing Systems Inc.) malcolm bridgeford: (lost wax media ltd) Having worked on both agile and non-agile projects - no doubt which ones made the customer and me happier - agile wins everytime - the buzz of seeing people using your software - and telling you how to make it better - somewhat better then producing documentation that is out of date before the save button pressed - and heated "discussions" on what was the original specification - keep up the good work. Matevz Rostaher: (FJA OdaTeam) Trying hard to be agile all my life ... Jens Wyke: (IBM) Niraj Juneja: (Distributed Computing Lab Inc.) Naohiro Sakaguchi: I support the agile alliance manifesto. I think managers's view is too optimistic about humanity in Japan. Johan Vanhees: I find it encouraging to discover that this software development "methodology" - which I preached and practiced over many years - has a name, an organization and an increasing recognition in the marketplace. Christian Heller: (Res Medicinae - Free/Open Source Medical Information System) I believe that Agile Software Development can help me bridging the gap between my theoretical efforts at University (http:// www.theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de/ proinf/ index_english.htm) and the practical needs in my free software project (http:// www.resmedicinae.org). David Mitchelhill: Having developed sophisticated software throughout the chaotic dotcom period, the utilization of Agile Software Development has allowed me to build highly motivated teams, deliver sophisticated systems on time and on budget, and provide a level of development security never before delivered. As CTO of vivid studios, Modem Media and Modulant, ASD has been the cornerstone of development success. Jorge DeFlon: (NetApplications) We love developing and at least a development method recognises people as the main and most important piece. Robert Morgan: I get blank stares when I caution about processes which mandate a strict requirements-driven delivery. Building for as-yet unimagined requirements, and relaxing some of the constraints in the conception-specification-build process, allows for faster realisation of solutions, assuming that your team is capable of understanding and delivering the flexibility of implementation to accomodate it. Hubert Smits: (Vision Consultants ltd.) Very much interested in implementing agile principles in large scale projects and processes. Nick Jones: Software is about delivering useful services to people. Words like "useful", "services" and "people" being the important ones. Janet E. Danforth, CPF: (Facilitator4hire, Inc.) Whether we are talking about DSDM, Extreme Programming or Crystal Methods, the common link is collaboration, the hard "soft stuff." Excellent collaboration does not happen by accident or by wishing it so. The real value in collaboration comes by design, and is usually focused by someone with facilitation skills. Some Agile approaches formally recognize the need for preparing the environment with enhanced core competencies in facilitation and collaboration. Their results speak for themselves. The teams we are working with in Europe and the US consistently reinforce that "individuals and interactions" make or break projects. Nabeel Mukhtar: Just want to be a part of a great team. Lasse Junget: (Alm. Brand A/S, Denmark) Andrew J. Toth: (http://www.andrewtoth.com) "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver (1864-1943) Prof. Mario Gerson M. Magno Junior: (UNISUL - SC - Brazil) MCT - MCSE - MCSD - MCDBA Matteo Centro: (altEra e-business solutions) Small companies facing big OOP projects can't afford "traditional" approaches. We find Agile Software Development very similar to what we tried to develop in the last year and we expect to integrate our methodology with Agile Software Development in the next months to be more efficient and produce even better results. Thank you. Faisal Mahmood: (Eneris Solutions) I am sure that the agile manisfesto has all the necessary ingredients, customer orientation, reduced software process complexity and effectice interaction, required for a successful and lighweight methodology. Yet it doesn't resist any changes which is a feature not often found in common methodologies. Udo Christ: (TW Systems) Joe Combs: (Convergys) After working in a processs laden environment, agility reminds me why I entered the field in the first place Bĺrd Magnus Dale: I love this stuff! Kaare E. Christiansen. Andy Lau. Stian Lavik: I totally agree on the principles behind the Manifesto, and I think the agile way represents a change of paradigms, due to its values and perspecitves. Eirik André Hesthamar: Agile Methodologies is a step in the right direction. Andreas Guther: (guther.de/andreas) Serge Vanasse: (Cordiem LLC) Dafydd Rees: (www.dafydd.net) I'm particularly keen on test-driven development, and the importance of learning by doing. Carlos Cantonnet. Sudi Bindiganavile: (Thomson Scientific) I certainly agree and support the Agile Manifesto, in particular Responding to change over following a plan. Instead of changing the plan, plan for the change and we will be better off. The second important manifesto that I support and have used is individuals and interactions over processes and tools. One thing I have noticed with my team by using these manifesto, they are charged up and motivated amidst all the bumpy rides. Kirill Kalishev: (http://www.kirillkalishev.com) I am a programmer who does XP, writes things on XP in Russian and holds (hopefully) interesting seminars on agile development. grazia dassano: (sanpaoloimi) Subhasini: (ConcretioIndia) Sheba Anne George: (Acusis Software) Roger Browne: (Everything Eiffel) Yathish ParthaSarathy. Simon Chatfield: (The Chatfield Group, Inc.) In working on hundreds of projects for many different clients, I have found that the architect's ability to be adaptive to change during the development process is key to success. As developers we need to embrace the ever changing requirements of our clients and build solutions that allow for those changes. George Pauly: (Ring Associates, LLC) Interaction is a process. Software is documentation. Collaboration is a covenantal relationship. This too shall pass. Will Rau: (Concur Technologies) I especially like Alistair Cockburn's focus on the human factors that make Agile Development work. Alex Iskold: (Information Laboratory, Inc) I am attracted to agile methods because they embody insights of complex natural systems. Systems are not engineered, they evolve. Programming is the dialog between engineer and the software. It is an art form, where through the process of continious refinement a beautiful and correct software emerges. A. Banyini: I FOUND THE AGILE CONCEPT GREAT. IT WAS APPLIED BY A CONTRACTOR IN A PUBLIC ORGANISATION WHERE MOST PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE IT NOR PROJECT CONCEPT. AS A MANAGER OF THIS PUBLIC ORGANISATION, I NOW BELIEVE THE CONTRACTOR FOLLOWED THE MANIFESTO TO BOOK Beth Hechanova. dan flies: (http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~fliesd) Lillian Zelinski: (SAIC) Don Richardson: (Richardson Technologies) Thomas Wrensch: (University of the Pacific) I have used some of these techniques in Smalltalk projects, and found them to be very effective. Now, as a teacher, I need to find a way to expose my students to Agile programming. I believe this alliance will be a boon to enlighted teachers. Dave Hoover: (Red Squirrel Design) I am just beginning my journey with Agile Software Development but I have already been profoundly impacted by what I have learned. I am currently adopting XP practices into my development work and beginning to research how certain post-modern theories of family therapy might be integrated into agile methodologies. J. B. Rainsberger: (Diaspar Software Services) I support the Agile Alliance and its manifesto primarily because people are so highly-valued. In my opinion, it is critical never to lose sight of the human elements in software development. The manifesto clearly expresses that all participants in a software project are valued above all else. I commit to advancing this cause in my own work, along side (at least in spirit) the pioneers of the Agile Alliance. Balachandran Natarajan: (Washington University) All the things that I think I missed when I used to work as a consultant. As a Research Associate, I get to do most of the Agile development's manifesto and there seems to be better results. Sumeet Parmar: (Developers At Large Inc) The gravest mistake is to take a certain paradigm or philosophy and try to force it onto something that needs better understanding. That's what is wrong with the present software development situation. The majority simply took the pages out of traditional engineering practices as a guidebook to software development while completely neglecting to acknowledge the true nature of software. Agile Manifesto will hopefully mend some of those mistakes and pave the way for a more profitable industry. Sheral Karimov. Sean Evans. Wouter van Oortmerssen: (http://wouter.fov120.com) Steffen Gemkow: (ObjectFab GmbH) Tony Azar: (BIG ) We have actually applied agile software development in some of the projects where cost was not an issue. However we have always went with the design/engineering approach where cost was tight. I believe that clients should understand this concept and help developers not worry about time frames and man/day costs and all the contractual crap that comes along. David Beshore: (Enerspace Tech) Francesco Sisini: (Hypersoft srl) Jřrgen Larsen: (AgileMovement.org) The AgileMovement.org is here to support the Agile Manifesto! Chuck Wegrzyn: (IPeria Inc) Prasad MNS: I am interested in practicing the Agile Programming techniques for the projects I do. Randy Ballew: (Information Systems and Technology, UC Berkeley) Marco Papacchini: I strongly support the Agile Alliance Manifesto. Its principles are unfolding the real nature of software development Jens Jahnke: (Software AG) Coping about 10 years with software project management all the heavy weight Software Engeneering methods showed inherent problems. Scrum & XP have been introduced into development with great success. Rajesh Sachde: (Tata Consultancy Services) Excellent - we are currently shifting our Software Development Methodology from Waterfall to XP - and Agile Practices seems to be a natural extension. Raghavendra Singh: (GNFC Ltd) Great News that a new software development help is comming up. Please see to it that like others this also does not become a developers nightmare by needing expensive lectures to learn first and then keep gruping how to implement the various diagrams in his project. Ravi Veeramachaneni. Christian Rath. Sapna Subramani: (SPCNL) The Agile Software process will improve efficiency as well as effectiveness of the process leading to overall optimisation. Knut I Stenmark: (Dynamic Project Management AS) Being able to respond to changes, is like being responsible for business benefit. The world is changing, our environment is changing; even the organisation we are working in. All this is affecting our business requirements, and should thereby also be reflected in our projects. Ambareesh Reddy: (Aalayance E-Com Services Pvt. Ltd.,) I am impressed very much with the Agile Manifesto. vote for Agile Manifesto -Ambareesh Marnie Juel Shaw: I also believe in quality over quantity. Talbott Crowell: (Third Millennium) The Agile Manifesto is an important doctrine to follow and is key to successful software development. More importantly, the manifesto's heightened value of the individual increases job satisfaction, which increases productivity. Bertrand Weegenaar. Mr Alex G Hunt: (DISSC Ltd) I have been a practitioner of what is now called Agile Programming for most of my working life. Real-world systems are by definition agile. David S. de Lis: (Altran SDB) Just hat off. I struggle everyday to apply these principles and let my customers and co-workers to apply them as well. Paul Caswell: (http:// www.extremearchitects.com) "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf" Thanks for you helping us in handling the waves. It is actually a lot of fun surfing when you are not alone. I share your values and feel your support. You have my support. Sai Prasad Matam: (Shankerson Consulting, Inc.) Agile is not a silver bullet. There is no substitute for thought and hardwork. Agile should not be mis-understood as an 'undisciplined way' of doing things. In the coming years the propounders should clarify the agile concepts. Simon Roberts: (Objective Visions) We're increasingly finding that Agile process (particularly XP) ways of working can be useful outside of software development as well. We now do a substantial amount of our management using "pair managing" and strategic planning using something similar to the XP Planning Game. Thomas Georgopoulos. Per Bergman. Alesia Sowell. Jan Coffey. Olivier Brisson. Manuel Amago: People over bits. Lets make software that matters. For who it matters. Go Agile. Andy Hoffman. ram potty: (IIITM-K) Agile Methods is a step towards simplified software process than heavyweight stuff. More over it integrates with many process styles like XP very well . Need to Do more in this arena . ..Together We can achive more ..... Boris Kontsevoi: (Web Space Station) atirek: (Agilent) Marc Clifton: (Knowledge Automation) I and my team have successfully developed large scale engineering and process management software using the principles of the Agile Manifesto. Modern software development must take into account rapid advances in technology and customer requirements. In addition, many customers do not fully understand that an existing "paper" process does not translate 1 for 1 to a software process. Nowhere is this more true than in an engineering and process management fields, where existing processes can be so "subconscious" that they actually become hard to define by the customer. It is vital therefore that the software development team develop agile software--software that is delivered early, in incremental steps, and can support late requirement changes. Built-in flexibilty is a key component of this. Frequent face to face design meetings and delivery presentations is essential to ensure that the team is on track with the customers' expectations. Not only is it important to use the right design models, but existing tool sets (such as Microsoft's Foundation Class library) and current software implementation practices all but ensure failure in supporting agile software development. It is therefore vital that the development team enhance existing tools so that flexibility and traceability is at the foundation of the software implementation. The Agile Manifesto is key to this success. Michael Burleson: (Collaborative Development Strategies) Agile is a culture as much as it is a collection of processes and tools. Collaboration makes it possible. Any new product development (software or otherwise) is wild and untamed. Agile expects and respects this. RAD meets REALITY! CDS is dedicated to moving Agile forward in the development and BUSINESS community. Roberto Barsallo. Shailesh mangal: (Cymbal Corporation) I like agile because its the best methodology which provide maximum flexibility to customer and developers. I have been working in one of the agile methodology called XP(X-treme Programming) and I almost love it by heart. Bart Samwel: While working as a software developer I have often found that development teams depend too much on processes and too little on interaction with and paying attention to customers and each other. As my friend Jeroen Vermeulen told me, methodologies are usually a systematic way to overlook things. And the things most often overlooked are changing requirements, or even the fact that requirements are incorrect or incomplete. Once the goal becomes satisfying a static, frozen set of requirements, you can forget about the real goal, which is delivering a product that satisfies the only requirement that counts - making your users happy. I therefore support the principles of the Agile Manifesto. Ron Lubensky: (Click Craft Pty Limited) I build custom eLearning solutions using Macromedia Authorware. We have a strong developer community which, as it happens, already tends to follow the ethics of this manifesto. With the growing acceptance of Agile philosophy, I have a better chance of successfully overcoming client conservatism and educating more to go along with the Agile approach. I am proud to sign up! Steven Beales: (Medical Decision Logic, Inc) "In our time, many of us have been taught to strive for an insane perfection that means nothing. To get wholeness, you must try instead to strive for this kind of perfection, where things that don’t matter are left rough and unimportant, and the things that really matter are given deep attention. This is a perfection that seems imperfect. But it is a far deeper thing." Atsaves George: (SINGULAR SA) Manfred Schäfer. Jim McGovern: (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Sander Hoogendoorn: (Ordina) As one of the authors of Ordina SMART, one of agile methods, I fully support the agile manifesto. I hope that in the years to come more and more project teams will rethink the way they work and co-operate and implement the principles in the manifesto. Having experienced such projects I can only say that it works better, project teams become far more flexible, and even more important: projects are more fun. M. Abdur Rasheed. Darin Cummins. Jose Menes: (menesco SCI Ltd) Controlled chaos is not an oxymoron Nick Xidis: (US Central) Paul Markov: (DMR Consulting) Great Idea ! Janet Gregory. Sřren C. T. Ravn. Andy Carmichael: (Better Software Faster) To build better software we need to *measure* its quality more, and more effectively -- especially through testing. To build software faster we need to *do* less. This implies smaller sets of artifacts and more effective automation. Agile processes are therefore essential to the universal goal of building better software faster, which is why this manifesto has my full support. Peter Messervy: (Opus Magnum Inc.) I have been pursuing most of the Agile concepts from a time before I even heard of Agile. I heartily embrace the principles and the process. I have focused on analysis (requirements) and design practices that fit very well into the Agile philosophy. Including some modeling approaches that are very agile. Namkyu Cho: (Independent Consultant) I believe it support the compatibility with WinWin. Sure, I love the agile method. David Kitchen: (Büro 9) I've evolved into Agile Modeling through years of frustration through the development processes and restrictive practices that I've followed within corporations. Since applying what I held to be my own 'philosophies of development' I've seen dramatic improvement in code and the use of the code... actually seeing projects go live and get used heavily, rather than shelved for not fitting requirements. Only later did I realise that my own philosophies were but a poor image of Agile Modeling, and since then the improvements made have been substantial. I would urge all who are interested in actually producing meaningful applications and the right solution to a problem to investigate further. Peter Windsor. David Green: I develop software for military projects. The pile of unwanted, but contracted documentation is incredible and at very high cost. It's easy to forget that we are developing a software product. Agile principles also seem more environmentally friendly. Wolfgang Miller: (All for One Systemhaus AG) Paulo César Alvim Ottoni: (Powerlogic) I work in Brazil with these very important principles, including Scrum and eXtremme Programming... Masao Ito: (Nil Software Corp.) Bryan Zarnett: (Redhook Solutions) The Agile Alliance, the Agile Manifesto and the concept of Agile methodologies, regardless of the style provides a philosophy where we can build systems and services that transform the manner in which business is done in an effective and timely manner. Several years ago I told my boss (old one) that I did not like the way things where done - the way we communicate with the customer, the way we develope. I said I wanted to change this. He said it could not be done. I guess we are proving him wrong! Lailah Gouvęa. Daniel Schweizer: (Daedalos Consulting, Switzerland) “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” -Sydney J. Harris Kay Pentecost. Hari Mailvaganam: In all the 15+ years I have been in software development, I have not seen a more common-sense software development startegy as the Agile Software Development process. We have been using Agile with RUP on larger projects. Most of our clients and development partners have bought into the agile process - expecially clients, when they see greater continous feedback in the development chain. Development partners are particularly interested in the "change management" process. Best wishes on you next projects - e-mail me if you have any questions or would like to discuss. David Larsson: (Tietoentator DevCon) I agree with everything you have written. I am a XP fan! Jacques De Schryver: (self employed) Lee Collins: (jSierra Enterprises) Abdullah Kauchali: (iSanusi Systems Architects (South Africa)) Software development, like many "life" projects is about managing complexity. The Agile Manifesto is about braving complexity. A couple of weeks ago, I with a group of friends completed a 5-day backpacking trail through the Fish River Canyon in Namibia. As rookies to this daunting trail, we sought advice from a group that had done the same trail 5 times and who were starting the trail at the same time. They asked us what our "strategy" was. Our reply: shrugging shoulders and saying "taking it a day at a time?". Silently smiling, they assumed impending doom! The experienced group had even planned exactly where they would camp each night! We hadn't thought further than the first night. The Fish River Canyon trail is beautiful, dynamic, ruthless and unforgiving. Planning anything to the "T" is futile. Tempratures can plummet or soar depending on several factors. Carry too much, and you may suffer under your burden. Carry too little, you suffer at the hands of the elements. Any-which-way, you can easily make a beautiful hike into a sordid experience. We took it a day at a time. When it rained, we made a makeshit tent with whatever we had. It kept us dry. The contraption was dismantled the next morning. No one carried anything superfluous. We stuck in as a team and made the most of what we had. We moved lightly and swiftly, taking it a day at a time. A boulder at a time. A river crossing at a time. But we never lost sight of the awesome beauty of the Canyon nor lost track of the precious map leading us to our eventual destination at Ai Ais hot springs. We made it before the other group and in "one piece". Us the rookies. Us without our strategy - without our cut T's and dotted I's. Us the Agile Manifesto boulder hoppers! David Taylor: (Telnet Media Ltd) Our small team of dedicated individuals lives and breathes agile software developement. The strength of our products is based in our ability to change and follow customer needs. We keep adding features but the code actually ends up smaller and faster everytime as the developers become increasingly skilled and extend their creativity. The freedom to dream up code powers the team along, and leaves regular progroids in the dust. jean-paul assouvie: I am a french developer ever struggling to have software made in the best way for the best usage. And so happy to join AgileAlliance. Sander M. Nagtegaal: I work in the Internet Industry, and I have found that agile methods are unavoidable when it comes to building web apps within a certain deadline. Web software is in a continual prototyping process - user feedback and design demands are much more prevalent than in their traditional counterparts. As a result of this dependence on emotion (because that is what it is), web functionality can hardly be planned for, deadlines are neglected, budgets are overestimated and results do not fit the needs of a client: this sounds like an average Internet project. To protect from this, we must embrace adaptivity over predictivity! Edward Averill: (Wooly Loach Productions) At last, an approach that matches my experience in software development! If only we had this ten years ago... John Mirk: (Ericsson Datacom) What a breath of fresh air! After having seen a thriving software development team (once known as "Advanced Computer Communications -- ACC") taken over by a large process-oriented corporation, it is a great pleasure to see a manifesto which is a compilation of the things I enjoy most about software development. Jason Swartz: (Black Rock Software) This is a wonderful step forward for our field of software engineering, bravo to the authors. I've been promoting the use of lengthy, up-front requirements analysis for software development projects for years, even as a dot-commer, and spent too much effort holding design meetings, perfecting the specs, and persuading others to actually read them. Now I can dismount my high horse and get some work done! Rusmin Noer: This is what I am already agreed for a long time. Aruna Dissanayake: (Virtusa Corporation) Robert Olson: (Benfield Blanch) I have always believed in the concepts in this manifesto over the objections of many consultants and auditors. The proof is in the results and the happy users, not in the amount of documentation you produce. Dr. Pierre Castori: (SynSpace SA) Looks like minds are gently starting to change... This is good news! Dave Rooney: (Mayford Technologies) I have, more or less, worked according to the principles of the Agile Manifesto for my entire professional career. It is the times that I could not follow the principles that my work (and the projects) suffered. Jorge Teixeira: (SINFIC, SA) Jose Quinones: (Dot Com Savant) So different it's scary. Satish Babu: (InApp) I believe. LTC Bill Robinson: (US Army) Although, we haven't called it Agile we have been using the principles of agile sw development for several years in developing a personnel system for the Army. We have delivered and continue to deliver a great system to our 4000+ users. I'm glad there is now a name for the approach we use for development. The establishment usually refers to our team as the "rogue" developers and they think our success is accidental. Paul Holser. Geraldo Xexéo: (Computing and System Engineering Department/UFRJ) I've been involved with software development in real life and software engineering in academics for more than 10 years and the Agile Manifesto is just what was missing. Rekha Raghu: (Motorola) I couldnt agree more. Agile Development is the future of software development! Tony Kehoe: (CTO - Deutsche Bank AG) At long last an approach most of us have known all along (and would have preferred to practice) as the optimum approach to delivering to our customers! It complements the demands and ever changing world of Investment Banking. The customers (Traders) prefer the transparent and dynamic interaction and of course most importantly they get what they want. Frank Niklas Ruland: (Business Engineers) Sic! Taking the next step :-) Larry Kuhn: I have had great success in projects that incorprated agile methods. I introduce my clients to these precepts at every opportunity Marco Pazzanese: (Agilengineering) Arisio Costa: (A&S Consultoria e Treinamentos - Brazil) I couldnt agree more. Agile Development principles are very good orientation for the software development personnel and processes Richard C. Murphy: Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility: In some recent experience, I've been able to shift gears quickly very close to deployment because earlier in the project I insisted on good design. Simplicity, another perspective: Even if I design away from complexity, I look for opportunities to revisit what I've implemented and remove the superfluous. I believe this stage is essential to achieve simplicity. Stan Malyshev: (XP Consulting, Inc.) Ashay Salunke: (SuperSolutions Corporation) The most practical software development methodology. Shashi Rao: (TAJ Technologies, Inc.) I sincerely endorse the Agile Manifesto, simply for the following reasons: - Change in software development is inevitable. Rather than avoiding, we should plan for it. - Software Development cycles are getting smaller and need constant management of expectations. Incremental reviews of the deliverable in the form of a prototype or preview is essential. - Ongoing emphasis on quality improvement is a given. Marcos Antonio Rodrigues da Silva: (Escola Politécnica da Universidade de Săo Paulo - Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo ) My doctorate thesis focuses the software production. Jay Turpin: (Intel Corporation) I have nothing meaningful to add that hasn't been more eloquently stated by others on the list. Thanks to Kent, Ron, Alistair, Jim and all the others that have illuminated a better way. Viktor Levine. Chris Day: (Pinky Ltd) Daniel T. Murphy: (Enterasys Networks Inc.) This seems and excellent way of describing what market forces and mangement is demanding of software applicatoins today and helps to give a frame work that the team involed in bringing a software release to a shipping state can follow. I have found this to be a quite helpful theory of rapid development that removes many of the barriers to "can't" while at the same time provides a simple layout of why we can. Jon R. Nials: (Thanesoft) Jeff Miller: (Jeff Miller Associates, Inc.) I first came across XP a few years ago when I was CIO at TeliSmart.com. After a very pleasant evening at Old Chicago with Ron Jeffries, I knew they were on to something! I first started deploying these agile concepts over 15 years ago. Back then, we did not have a name for them, but (as with most of the rest of you, I'm sure) I recall thinking how wasteful and futile was the effort of writing comprehensive program specs. Why not, I wondered, just have the user tell the programmer what he wants? Seemed simple enough. Turns out is really /is/ that simple! As most of us have come to recognize, there is a certain efficient way of doing things. The Agilists (to coin a term) have codified them and expressed them in a very simple and coherent way. That is why so many of us read these pages and feel like shouting "At last! Someone has put it all together!" The bottom line for me is that Agile development is better in every way: Cheaper, faster, better. Dick Blystone. Mark Bruce: (MarkBruce) The only thing permanent is change. Developers and Customers adapting to change while creating quality solutions in a timely and accurate manner in a highly collaborative environment... Well that what its all about. And I'm all for Agility and the XP way! Keith Jordan: Because it works, concern for people and production are balanced, and because every success and turnaround in 20 years hinged on a technique in this portfolio. Tapan Garg: (vMoksha Technologies) At Last! Jim Scott: (Cypress Innovations, Inc) Luiz Barreto de Castro Esmiralha: (e-Dablio) Michael Sjölin: (Create) A thought framework fully supporting the ideal software development principle: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Dirk DiGiorgio-Haag. Fernando Bucci: (http://www.fernandobucci.com.ar) Peta Pelikan. JP Belanger. Richard Huntrods: (Huntrods Consulting Inc.) Muralidharan: (Sella.it) Agile Manifesto is exactly what the Software industry needs to undertake as the prime focus today. As Software Engineers, we've had really enough - incomptent coding, exploding budgets, unforecasted breakdowns, so on - every possible negative phenomenon - that leads to the profession's disgrace. Only such a movement as Agile that has a manifesto as stated here, could be a hope of revival of the glory of a career as a Software Engineer. Jean-Yves REYNAUD: (EDS Answare) I have been involved in RAD projects (DSDM, RUP) for 4 years as a project manager. Nowadays, I am in charge of promoting agile software development in the agency of EDS Answare in Toulouse. Furthermore, I am in charge of building an agile organisation for this agency mostly based on Semler's principles. Manuel Galindo. Marcus Pol: (Misys International Banking Systems) Keep up the good work Lynn Eatherton: (Honda Transmission Mfg. of America, Inc.) Scott Serich: (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Manuel Nunez: (Consultoria Colombiana) Michael Hunger: (Technical University Dresden, CS, PDAI) I wrote a thesis about Refactoring and became very interested in XP and its methods. In our current project we try to use as many ways as possible to use those methods to reach better ways for our development process. David Davidson: (Mantech Corp.) When it comes to software development, the Agile Manifesto's principles are the only principles that really work. Osamu Ochiai: (IBM Japan, Systems Engineering) Gary Marcos: (Smart Projects) Jean Tessier: (http://jeantessier.com/) Haig Evans-Kavaldjian. Yury: (IVC SKgd) No David Plante: I truly beleive software development and its process can be a pain when its not based on these principles.The Agile Manisfesto is a step foward a better way of building computer systems.The awareness of responding to change will make us evolve in the best way. Richard Gijsbers: (Stockdale ACS) I guess all my projects were Agile. When I discovered "heavy project management" I thought I had been doing it wrong all these years and that this was the right way to do projects. Many failures later I re-discovered the value of common sense, of not testing the depth of water with both feet, of feeling your way, your client's way and the stakeholders' way through the problem. In short, agile development. Adithya Raghunathan: (JWM Partners, LLC) Having had both an enjoyable and successful experience with XP, I am in full agreement with the Agile Manifesto, which, although perhaps demanding more for a programmer in the short-term, delivers a much more fulfilling and effective experience. Rômulo Albuquerque. Alex Viggio: (XP Denver) Steve Bickel: (1st Real Time) Nice Manifesto James Darrah: (DTM Corporation) We have been delivering 2 software releases a year, on schedule, on budget with low bug counts while increasing customer satisfaction and eliminating over time. We have been practicing the principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto prior to encountering it. I would add the following values: 1) contributors over heros 2) customer requests over system expertise monfort: (PDM/PLM) Patrick Verheij: The concepts of agile software development fit very well into my vision on software development. Finally people can come together and combine their skills and enthousiasm in their (our) overall mission: to delever working software to the greatest satisfaction of our customers. Alfonso Adriasola. Jerry Errett: (VoiceLog) Chris Oakeley: (Oakeley Computer Services) Computer Consultant in Western Australia and a keen supporter of Agile Software Development. Hana Galperin. Jim Whitescarver: (Xanthus Inc.) I applaud this collaboration on sane programming practices. I've promoted XP for a few years. Where is the history? When did it start? I am also seeking links to similar and related methodologies. I am borrowing the ideas here for extreme collaboration at http://WikiWorld.com . Do stop by and share. Thanks. JimScarver John Bernd: (Catalyst International) Sven Knudson: (DTM Corporation) Finding out about the Manifesto just validated the approach we had been taking towards software for years: find out what the customer wants and make sure they get it, on time and within budget. Adriano de Pinho Tavares: (AP Software) Ronald B. Ellis: (Internal Information Services) I concur and support the Agile Manifesto and wish to have my name added to the signature page. Christian Linhares Peixoto: (NK Tecnologia) Vanier. Mark E. dos Santos: (Advanced Technology Group, Leapnet, Inc.) Sascha Carlin: (http://www.itst.org/) Ray Anderson: (Bango.net Limited) The benefits of Mobility are profound. Agile development should help us home in on getting those benefits to users by collaboration rather than diktat. Peter Schrier: (S2DC) Vincent Wright: (Wright Enterprises) Kudos to the Agile Manifesto! Norbert Weiner, bio-mathematician father of "Cybernetics", would be pleased with this apparently appropriate "...Use of Human Beings". Vincent Wright, Creator PROSE System Meta-Methodology Brent Roman: (MBARI) Jim McCusker: (Usable Software, LLC) Agile methodologies are one of the cornerstones of Usable Software, and has created successful projects where failure would have been inevitable using rigorous methodologies. Robert A. Poplawski: (Military Academy of Technology) Suvojit Mazumdar: (PwC Consulting) The concepts of Agile Programming embraces what most term as a problem in the lifecycle, converting it to an opportunity to deliver better software through a more efficient supply channel. Glen B Alleman: (Niwot Ridge Consulting) The risks in the selection, procurement, and deployment of large scale COTS systems are greatly reduced through the use of agile methods. Applying agilty in this domain is a natural evolution from high-ceromony processes of the past. Agilty provides a systematic vision of the outcome - an intelligent set of actions that make it possible to connect the COTS requirments with their outcomes in a rapid and sustainable manner. Jesse Blomberg. Thierry Cattel: (Logitech) John Crickett: (Crickett Software Limited) Agile methods have alot to offer, and make developing software a truely pleasurable experience. Improving the quality of the work, improves the quaility of our product, and our passion for and enjoyment of software development John Heffron: (MindTool, Inc.) In 25 years of developing software, I have had the good fortune to be involved in many projects that worked closely with the user/sponsors, that used short, frequent delivery cycles, that created only enough artifacts other than the software itself to suffice. In every case, projects that put people first, functioning software second, and everything else far after generated superior products and higher customer--and developer--satisfaction than projects dominated by strict adherence to schedules, budgets, or processes. The agile philosophy is the only way to create software with soul. Tom Stambaugh: (Stambaugh Engineering, Inc.) Every successful methodology is ultimately Agile. The question is how much energy we waste getting there. Vivek Nallur: (National Centre for Software Technology( Mumbai, India)) Arne Nernes. Ecil C. Teodoro: (E-Cube Systems) God bless these guys. The True Rise and Resurrection of the Programmer David J. Quinn: A 'home-grown' agile development proponent, having learned the value of these tenets not in classes and seminars, but through real-life application of the principles. Non-agile development is arrested development. André Figueiredo: (Lucida) We are an Agile brazilian company developing state of the art software. CHAO.WU: (CHINA) I'm a chinese,a manage working in a small softwara compuany. Sriram Srinivasan. Ian Harrop: (Halcyon Information Systems Pty Ltd) Halcyon are firm supporters of the Agile philosophies - our day-today business practises are driven by these principles. Above, all else, we value our clients and our staff. We concentrate on delivering value for money outcomes for our clients, whilst at the same time renumerating our staff with significantly better than industry standard. Peter Wong: (MODULAR SOFTWARE P/L) Manfred Wolff: (independent consultant) Sunil Arvindam. Paul Slootweg: I am about to start work on an project using agile development to achieve its goals. I'm looking forward to living and breathing the manifesto. Ajai Kurian: (Grasshopper Infotech) I am very much amazed to see this idea in a site which i was very much confused to move further with my imagination of doing projects almost the same sort.Now i am very confident in going ahead with this great way software development. Cleve Brown: (CleveBrown.com) As a developer whose practice evolved from a history that spans OOAD, RUP, and XP, I am a strong proponent of an agile approach. The Manifesto represents the forefront of the science of software development. It captures the heart of what drives an effective project in the fewest possible words, incidentally reinforcing its own message. Bravo. Unfortunately, it highlights the weaknesses that are still so prevalent on many software projects today. We still have a lot of work to do raising the industrys understanding to this level. Many thanks for helping to push that understanding forward! Jacek Artymiak: (http://www.artymiak.com) If you apply the Agile Manifesto in practice, take it to meetings with new clients and hed them each a copy of it. It's the best way to explain what they can expect from you, and what you expect from them. When they don't get it, explain, and if they still don't get it, think if you are interested in working with them. Kaspar M. Kurmis. Manfred Beck: (GPP AG) Nice to read something on this stuff after four years practicing it, without knowing the name. For me SW is a tool like other tools and therefore has to fit the users needs. Chris A. Bower: (Lynn Product Test Center) Gregor Erbach: (http://purl.org/net/gregor/) agile is a way of life. Darryl Vickers. Bryan Kowalchuk: (Highlander Business Solutions) I think you guys are great. It is fantastic to find software people that hold the same values as I do; building software in the real world and inspiring creative solutions to problems. Henrik Westman: I have tried to follow agile principles and processes, for some years now, when managing software projects. My experience is that the projectteams have been able to deliver a great deal of business value and they have also become well-functioning teams. It's a reliable and fun way of developing software! Flemming Ulvang: (DPM AS) Günther Makulik: (Sangat Systems AG) Much of the philosophical, psychological, economical, technical and methodological concepts, descriptions and (patterns?) terms described in Alistair Cockburns book 'Agile Software Develpment' touched a very deep point about my knowlede of Software Development and still keeps me learning and analyzing about it. Terry Shaw: (Royal&SunAlliance) Brian Marks: (DMR Consulting) Satisfied customers and successful vendors can only occur when there is closer collaboration between the two organisations Matt Culbreth: (eInfoDesigns.com) Bringing Agile methods to the .NET world. Nick Egarhos: (August Systems) Victor L. Harrison: (Computer Sciences Corporation) Sascha Frick: (empros gmbh (Switzerland)) We support the Agile Manifesto and declare an end to "just good enough" software! SURYA GHADIYARAM: (MSCS Inc) Julien Dumesnil: (Alopex Systems - France) At last, common sense is back... :) Todd Kowalczyk: (North Country Software Solutions) Hans Bossenbroek: (Luminis) After a period of employment with large consultancy firms, a group and colleagues/friends and myself reached the conclusion that underrating the complexity and added-value of software engineering is one of the most important sources for failures. In order to remain free from all kinds of internal hassle regarding strategy, corporate standards and alliances, we founded a small consultancy firm aimed at applying and extending the agile (or extreme) ideas for customers. It is our firm believe that it takes professionals to help professionals and short term help (fly in, shit all over the place and fly out) does not amount to much. We therefore work using a combination of participation, education, longer term coaching and management support. Gunther Lenz: (siemens Corporate Research) Rachel Davies: (eXtreme Tuesday Club) I'm signing up because I'm always looking for agile ways to develop software and most trad methods don't put people first. If you're in London, you will be most welcome to drop into the eXtreme Tuesday Club. The eXtreme Tuesday Club is a NPO, trying to create opportunities for people to get together to share experiences about agile software development. Sam Gill: (San Francisco State University) Chip Camden: (Camden Software Consulting) The whole point of software development is to deliver the best software to the user in a timely fashion -- software that is capable of responding to the changing needs of any industry. The best tools for that job are highly motivated people (developers and customers), and the best processes are the spontaneous interactions between them. Giri Uppalapati: (Cellarstone) Todd Harbour: (Self) While my organization can not formally recognize the Agile process (at least not yet), I find the underlying principles and philosophy to be very near to my own thinking and experiences. For me, the key to any process or procedure is UNDERSTANDING. If I don't understand what I am trying to build, there is little chance of my succeeding. Lefa. Richard Henderson. Nick Leoncavallo. Bente Melgaard Jensen. Tom Woytaszek: When I first read Extreme Programming by Kent Beck, I really got excited. Small, focused iterations, white board and index card mania, and a departure from documents for document's sake - the dreaded disease of producing documents that "no one will ever read". The software industry got a real jolt. There's still a lot of work to do.... Vic Gemmingen: (NCI Information Systems, Inc.) Andrew C. Chase: (San Diego Supercomputer Center) Susanne Elken Thomsen. Tami Decker: (SUPERVALU, INC) In my many years of developing software, I realize that my most satisfying experiences actually involved principles from this manifesto. Software developers can thrive and stretch themselves in that type of environment. I have also worked in environments that are extremely silo'd, process-oriented and paper-driven, where collaboration is only allowed between specified sets of people, and communication is a long and laborious process through a pre-defined sequence of people and tools. The suffocating effects of this approach on my person, and the debilitating effect on my performance make me want to cry out long and hard for a return to the principles set forth in the Agile Manifesto. Thank you for your vision. Thank you for your voice. Phil Hamilton: Have practiced and preached this approach for many years. To paraphrase others, the uncommon sense approach to successful systems delivery. David Putman. Mike Gorgen. Wayne Vovil: (ePerth) I have been a programmer since April 1969 and I agree wholeheartedly. Fujio Kojima. Harv Peters: Agile Development is supported by a huge body of research in Cultural Psychology, Critical Sociology, and Complexity theory. It also "feels right" to those of us who have led successful projects in chaotic, change driven environments. I support this movement as a welcome change from the individualistic, instrumental, checklist-driven philosophies used in the past. Richard I. Bopp: (My Technology Group) Michael Watkin. Mats Josefsson: (Init AB) Bruce Coleman. G Larry Mason: (Hungry Programmer) David Bock: (http://www.davebock.com) This just makes so much sense. My organization has its 'roots' in agile methodologies, although many people do not see it that way recently. I have added a reference to the 'agile manifesto' to my personal mission statement, alongside the Software Engineering Code of Ethics, my company's mission statement, and the Pragmatic Programmer's 71 tips. Richard den Adel: (Vodafone) Wow, 17 people got in a room and agreed on something? THAT must be something. Mike Robinson: None of this is easy for a 'line of fire' manager to implement in a Dilbertesque organisation. But the quality of product, team morale and customer feedback mandate perseverance - and it's good to know you're all out there !! Marc Rohloff: (Independant) I think it is about time we realised that people are capable of far more than we, or they, believe and liberated them to do that. Manolo Gómez. Petri Hakola. Yan Georget: (Koalog) Defining precisely what a program should compute (its semantic), is often much more difficult than writing the program itself. Hence, a "good" program can be simply defined as program that passes all the tests. Stefan Roock: (it Workplace Solutions) Agile development means customer orientation for software development. Jason Nocks: (Nocks Software Systems, Inc.) As a software consultant I continue to see many benefits for myself and my customers when working with XP and Agile software practices. Nolan Hall: When I started developing software over 20 years ago, I knew something was very wrong about the way projects were being run. I felt like I was in the twilight zone when I'd tell a manager that we had no way to estimate an entire project with so many unknowns, just to have the guy give me a blank stare as if he didn't know what I was talking about. I was trying to find what the Agile movement has put into words. It really is just common sense. Today we can get back to having fun and being creative, instead of blaming the failure of a manufacturing-based process on our creative individuals. Here's to a bright future, and thanks to those who made this into a popular movement. Haroldo Lima Benício: (QualityWare) Agile Software Development Manifesto (ASDM) is a very good way to look forward to quality assurance of software system projects. Since june 2001, QualityWare <http://www.qw.com.br> adopted all the Agile Modeling Values, Principles and Practices to offer the customers more and more previsibility. Jaideep Kala: The agile software development approach is much more practical and result oreinted. It removes some of the time consuming tasks like deatiling everything and increases stakeness and accountibility. I have seen that lot of the effort put in documenting everything and having control on evrything is really a waste. Concentrating on the few specifics as mentioned on your charter is a sure way of getting the best value for right efforts Dan Winfield: (Known Future) To produce useful software you have to remember who the software is for. The user. So be Agile. Rob Neely: (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) It is highly encouraging to see that methods our developers have been using for years, born out of a culture based on emphasis of delivering high quality complex scientific programs, now has a place to "hang our hat". I applaud the work done by the alliance, and hope to continue to learn how to improve our development processes along the lines outlined in the manifesto. Dr. Christian Mann: (ippon!Soft) I have to confess, that I'm a Jacobson fan, but if I have a more close look at all the projects I joined within my professional life, then it's ("crystal" ;-) clear, that any successful project had at least an "agile phase" where we started travelling light. Every methodology has to be customized to the concrete project, and if it's done right, it means allways: - Don't produce a document you don't know what it's for! - Don't produce a document which duplicates information! - Don't produce anything you don't need later on! - But allway produce what the customer wants!!! From that point of view, agile methods are just the stuff a professional developer (and especially a consultant) is doing anyway! (Usually, we are just afraid to admit...) Peter Ball. Oryan Wilson: (The Vienna Circle Inc) I support this lively approach of creative individuals. I would like to find companies that can build our software in this way. Rodolfo Cruz: (MSSI) Let's remove the burocratic practices from software development. We need to develop software in a timely fashion, not tons of paperwork. Claudio Ochoa: (Motorola) Laurent LA RIZZA: I am signing this manifesto for one reason : simplicity rules the universe and it should always be that way. Jason Smith: If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing just well enough! Friedrich H. Spaltmann: (PINTSCH BAMAG) Steve Eddy: (Qwest Communications) Tim DeBruine. Willem van den Ende: (CQ2) Focusing on working software means to me only doing 'real work', not busywork. Real work to me consists of programming (in the broad sense) and building a learning organization around the software development team, so the software grows as the programmers, users and managers learn together. Hal Macomber: (Lean Project Consulting, Inc.) If it's not agile it's not likely to succeed. To deliver the value our customers come to expect from us requires we stand ready to adjust to our learning, to the changing circumstances, and to the evolving client's own understanding of what can produce the most value. Giovanni Asproni. Matt Wise: (Borland Canada PSO) Karen J. Greg Pope: Let me know how I can support you. My recent experience is mostly in Software Testing. I have always been an advocate of underlying principles and artifacts rather than ridgid rules and documentation. These methods work becuse I have used them many times successfully to run software projects. The best tool is still the human mind. Andrzej Swedrzynski: Software is being created for human. Let us be human, not robot, while making the sofware. Mark Nenadov: (http://www.freelance-developer.com) I'm a software developer who practices methodologies such as agile software development and extreme programming. I provide freelance/contract consulting and software development services Rick Jones. Ken Power. garrick vanburen: (http://www.garrickvanburen.com) Like architecture, software encloses behavior. Agile development helps guarantee polite behaviors. Roger Turner: (SurveyAnalysis.com) Damian Glenny: (Xeque) 'Nuff said. Danyon Murray: (Mid-State Consultants) Mishkin Berteig: (MyMIND.net Inc.) Dilton McGowan II: (McCOMSoft) Work hard, often, and with determination and spirit. Formality is what formality wants to be. Doing, is getting it done. The task is the journey; the journey is the prize. The trophy is the customer's satisfaction. The Agile Manifesto sounds like good, old-fashioned common sense at work. Count me in. Giovanni Grandinetti. Shane Clauson. Hu Ji Rong: (Lido AeroNet) Amir Kolsky. Arkalgud Ramaprasad: (University of Illinois at Chiacgo) Dave Elliman: (University of Nottingham) I have learned these principles the hard way over more than thirty years of programming. They accord with my experience and as a professor of computer science I am happy to endorse them. Syed Raheel Asghar: (ISL) Juarez Poletto Jr.: (Dell Computer) Sam Gentile: (http://samgentile.com) Having been exposed early to Extreme Programming, I am proud to see these steps being taken and the exposure that this has been generating. Lin Yan: I love this game! Peter Merel: (XPSD) XPSD is the staging area for a San Diego based agile consultancy, name not yet determined. We're particularly interested in scaling agile process to address the needs of businesses wanting to achieve CMM certification. Falk Langhammer: (Living Pages Research GmbH) Now, the good thing got a good name. Thank You! Shivaprasad Nayak: (Planetasia Co Ltd) Hi Great !! You guys have addressed a basic problem in SW Engineering. That is Changing requirement, and other specifc troubles But I personally dont agree to some of the factors like Faster Developement cycles with unbaked requirements. Believe me, you guys are denying the basic rights for a Software to be perfect.!! Felix Balderas: (Seismic Micro Technology) Alex Garrett. William Mercado: (Paragon Data Inc.) Serge Shimanovsky: (MULTEX) Quin Leach: (First American ) Joaquim Torres: (Microprocessador, SA) John McManus: (Schlumbergersema) Author of Information Systems Project Management 2002 Jeff Bone: (Deepfile Corporation) Steve Holden: (Holden Web) It's very important that developers focus more on doing what results in a working system, and less on going through rote motions (such as building implausible project plans in Microsoft Project). Everyone talks about the "software shortfall", but improving productivity is probably the solution it would be easiest to leverage into success in the real world. (Steve is the author of "Python Web Programming") Rob Harwood. Chuck Patchet: (Arizona State University) Steve Woods: (William Reed Publishing) What better than not following a rule book, but working to get the job done? Carolyn Wales: (Liberate Technologies) It's something that I've felt for years. Maybe now that we've codified it, we'll be able to convince who those don't feel comfortable without a spec... Terje Sandstrom: (Osiris Data AS) David Kosa. Ken Anderson: (K. Anderson & Associates Ltd.) Natalia : my interest is about process developmet for web applications and I think that agiles methodologies are good to keep in mind Neil Gall: A machine will understand anything syntactically correct. Our primary job as software developers is not to communicate with the machine, but to communicate successfully with each other. Michael Neumann: (http://www.fantasy-coders.de/mneumann) I fully agree to all principles and will try my best to fulfill them. David Freda: The manifesto says it so concisely - great work, folks!. Personally, I like writing meaningful tests, and then getting them to work. I like interacting with the customer to define what constitutes often-stated phrases like "the software is working" and "the project is done", ensuring that we are all on the same page throughout a project. I like incorporating previously-undiscovered information into the tests over a rigid, up-front design. I like that meaningful documentation is encouraged with due caution. Sung Nguyen: (Borland Software Corporation) Agile goes on high! Jeff Reiser: I am a heavy advocate of the AGILE process and it's potential to overcome typical IT development roadblocks such as analysis paralysis, requirements dilemma (how much do we need). I have been successful in building software teams that are able to productively utilize the AGILE approach. Press-on and build good software! -Jeff John Fung: (Citigroup) Agile programming offers the best methodologies for web projects. It is the future of software-development. Sébastien Pierre: (Type-z) I discovered patterns and unit testing while developing personal projects, and I must say I sometime regreted not to have spent more time looking for available patterns and writing tests. It takes time to really understand that good software practices are as important as coding efficiently! I like the idea of being "agile", which sounds to me as being open-minded, capable of recognising our own errors, and caring about others :) John Manzo: (AgileTek) I've been developing software for over 35 years, and this just makes perfect sense! Partha Mallikarjun: I am a Process/SQA person - and am looking to see how the End-User can be benefit from the process, rather than the practitioners. Agile seems to be an interesting concept - I will be actively following it! Bret Givens: (Veridian Engineering) Let's make a difference! gabriele renzi: (LiT group) Kevin McConnell. Fernando Brum: (CCC) A very clear summary of the best principles! Robert Quinn: ...dogma is for people that can't handle reality Rohitash Singh: (Apar Infotech) Charles Edwards: (Processwave) Process varies according to certain parameters of the project. Agile as an overriding principal will make our projects more nimble. Other techniques and methodologies also have value, with the ultimate goal being our industry should strive become more disciplined and professional and less chaotic. Kumail Razvi: It makes sense! It is logical NOT bureaucratic!! Kevin Bonifield: (WilTel Communications) Good software, like good people, requires time, trials, and creativity to develop. The Agile approach puts the focus back on core elements that really make a difference. Klaus Jagd: (UniqueBrains) Henric Sjöqvist: (Sintercon) Tom Van den Eynde: (VDE Projects) I follow the Agile Manifesto as I want a lover, not a fighter as a customer ! ilya lehrman. James Bach: (Satisfice, Inc.) I've been working on agile methods since 1987, specializing in agile testing methodology. In 1990, I developed a seminar called Organic Quality Assurance at Apple Computer, which presented a primitive heuristic testing methodology. I wrote the article "Process Evolution in a Mad World" in 1993, and in 1994 wrote one of the few articles you'll find that criticizes the CMM. Most recently, I'm an author of the book Lessons Learned in Software Testing, which describes an agile way of thinking about testing. Matthew Todd: (nanonation) I believe Agile Software Development is the next Evolution in Software Development. It is the approach that best takes advantage of today's tools and technologies for developing software. It an approach that best satisfies everyone's goals on a software project... in the most timely and cost effective manner. Initiative Owners get what they want; quick, quality solutions at the lowest possible price. Domain experts get what they want; solutions that solve their processing needs in the best possible fashion, based on how they want the solution to work, delivered according to their priorities. IT gets what they want; a flexible/ realistic approach for building software solutions. paolo foletto. Dave Garland: (MP Systems, Inc.) It's very nice to see these principles written down. Software development is and will always be part science and part art, and the art part is inherently human. Formal methodologies for the human part is a big step forward. Erik Geurts: (Ordina) I support the Agile Manifesto Rod Davenport: (http://www.shrine2me.com) They used to call me a non-process following renegade. Come to think of it, they still do. But now I can munge all that noise and cruft to Agile()! Laurence Wilson: (Skillsoft Ltd) Background in DSDM over many years. Agile is the natural way forward. Stu Thompson: (Unit.Net AG) Anjan Ghosh: (Core Technology) This is a methodology of best practise which can be utilised without compromising conformity to most other major methodologies. jimmey: (DeepBlue Studio) As you see,we need this. Vladimir: (Softline) michael winner: (Conference Planners) Just spoke at Oracle World 2002 "Extreme Rapid Applications Development", an attendee recommeded I view this site. Regards Derek Reilly: (Dalhousie University) Strong experiential support via work with GV Labs (once part of U S West). Out there it was dubbed "Value Discovery". David Scott Stokes: (INMAN) It works for us. Ilkka Korhonen: (http://www.hut.fi/~itkorhon) As a qa manager I see agility as good approach for achieving quality software. Mike Dwyer: (3 Sided Coin) Patrick Power: (Humanetix UK Limited) I run a company named Humanetix in the United Kingdom specialising in IT Project Management. Over the years I have seen large IT projects packed with talented and resourceful people not delivering on business needs or being canned. My focus shifted from 'what' was being done to 'how' it was being done. Hence my interest in agile and in particular in the Scrum process for managing IT projects. Mike Thornton: I am very interested in Agile and the affect it can have on the Development process. Alan Gladman: I have been practicing extreme programming as a project manager for the past six months. As soon as I read the first page of Kent Beck's book I saw the value and became a convert. It really does work! Dan Dimcea: (IBM) Paul Lipiec: (Universidad de la República del Uruguay, Instituto de Computación ) William Myers: (http://www.hal-pc.org/~wmyers) Luis F. Canals: (Agile Spain) Agile Spain is a non-profit site to promote agile software devolopment to the spanish audience. Paul Slater: (TU12 Ltd) Delighted to finally find a community of like minded programmers, united in their opposition of the costly "spec it to death" philisophy. While rules-based programming with Digital Equipment corporation, our departments philosophy was always to prototype. In doing this you both learn more about the problem at hand and have something to offer the customer. One day maybe all programmers will have the luxury of taking this approach. In the meantime a few more trees will be devoured adding to the piles of non-executable (and according to some, oh so necessary) specs. If nothing else, let's save a few more trees. Scott Hodson: (Ubero, Inc.) Albertas Mickenas: (MegaLogika) I'm happy that i found this manifesto as it expressed things that were in me all this time. Our company is in business only for 5 years, but all we came to understand these values during this short period of time. Following this manifesto is the only way to develop a good software these days... Aniruddha Mookherjee: (GoldenEmbryo Technologies Private Limited) We are there for it. We follow & help others to standardise on this methodology thru our own product WebPros. For more information Visit our website www.goldenembryo.com For Demo Of WebPros http://www.goldenembryo.com/get_project-management1.23.ppt http://www.goldenembryo.com/get_project-management1.23.zip Mail me if u hv some problem Bradley Clark. Heidi Coller-James: (Metagy Ltd) Excellent ideas and values!!! Christian Sakrouge: (Windows I.T. Solutions Pty Ltd) Tim Marks: (SmartDraw.com) David McElroy: With over 20 years experience in software development I firmly believe in your mission. The "Agile Manifesto" is a vision I share. I am looking forward to participating in a positive and productive way. Fabio Kon: (University of São Paulo) Is there actually any good programmer in the world that does not think that this IS the way to develop software? Krzysztof Swietlinski. Steve Banks: (Object Partners, Inc.) Common sense should apply to software development, too. Hussein Badakhchani: (Xensia) Daniel Bishop: (Haestad Methods, Inc.) If only there were a better way to create software. Oh, Wait! There is! Skeptic? Watch, I'll show you. Tom Lang: (Encyclopaedia Britannica) We've been incorporating the values of the Manifesto (and using agile methodolgies) for over a year now. They continue to work beautifully. Matthew T. Adams: (http://geocities.com/matthewadams) I appreciate the agile methodologies' concomitant acknowledgement of reality in the software development process. It is very reassuring to hear such well respected industry figures confirm values that I have held, knowingly or not, throughout my career. Duke Gard: (Booz Allen Hamilton) Konstantin Ignatyev: (http://www.kgisoftware.com) Agile methods really work! Elli Georgiadou: (Middlesex University) Interested to see how the development of Agile Methods will impact (a) on the quality of systems produced and (b) on a possible re-classification of methods. I am teaching Methodologies and Tools for the Engineering of Information Systems to approximately 300 per annum. In the last two years I included in the re-designed syllabi Agile Methods and more specifically XP. thuyen nguyen: To do anything extreme, one needs to be thin and agile. T.N. Juan de Dios Garcia Diaz: (Organizacion Becerra) James McGovern. Miroslav Pavlovic: (KEPLER Technology S.A.) 100% agree. We apply and include agile in our development process ITDA-KT. Ricardo Llamosa: (ITI Colombia) Matthias Bohlen: (http://www.mbohlen.de) It was time for agile practices! Takes quite a bit of courage to let go of old habits but frees a lot of energy to build software that users will happily accept. I highly recommend agile software development to my consulting customers and I am sure they'll enjoy to watch their teams succeed! ANIL KUMAR M S. Howard Jiang: (SandS Software Studio) T SnowWolf Wagner: (Wabunoh, LLC) Ben K Steele: (http://SteeleyMan.com) XP can and does work with formalisms such as CMM. Been there. Done that. Agile wraps them up. Warwick Sands: (Sands Consulting P/L) Nice to see that the approach that I have been actively promoting and using for over 20 years now is becoming more acceptable to both the programming and managerial community. Roustem Karimov: (Software Trenches) I support the Agile Manifesto! Bob Bramski: (Ordinal Logistics) Getting it Done! Scott Stirling: The Agile Manifesto is a much needed, much appreciated, experienced response to, and acceptance of, software project and development reality. I'm all for it. Anders Clausen: I support the Agile Manifesto. I support Common Sense. Bob Beecher: (ProQuest Business Solutions) Chandra: (HealthPartners) Just starting to develop a methodology for software development, using Agile as a guide. Very excited in others experiences! Ivan Vecerina: (http://www.post1.com/~ivec) David Vydra: (http://www.testdriven.com) Gyanesh M Khanolkar: (ThoughtCircle) rajkin: (NeST) There isnt a better method to track a moving and changing target as software product. I have a feeling that much of the fundamental concepts of 'agile' can however be traced back to Federick Brooks concepts in Man-Mythical-Month. Especially the chapter on Silver Bullet and after. David E. Smyth: (Oak Grove Consulting, Inc.) So succinct as stated, so obvious once illuminated, so effective when applied. Hassan M. Sharif: (ExtendEnt, Inc.) This is such a great movement. At the Senior Director/CTO level for Global 500 enterprises, for years I have been practicing the principles expressed in your manifesto. It is nice to know that we finally have a movement that makes sense not only from a common-sense point of view, but also from an economic, practical application. In a world where we basically blow $18 billion in failed software projects annually, the Agile principles are significant markers along the way to not only save money, but to apply the most common sense principles of life to our working life! I do wholeheartedly support your efforts and will continually strive to apply them in all aspects of my professional life! Hassan M. Sharif Chief Architect/Information Officer ExtendEnt, Inc. San Francisco, CA Mark Interrante: (http://www.interwalk.com/gallery.htm) Kovács Kristóf: (KKovacs) We programmers make the technology that enable people to provide better values to their customers by caring about individual needs, collaboration, and responding to change. Engineers do it with CAD software. Salesmen do it with their on-demand calculation software. Why would we deny access to these values ourselves? Gary "Sponge-Bob" Gauthier: An eye-opener that has reminded me why I chose IT as a career in the first place! Leonardo Ruoso: (Oktiva) : The only way to exist as a medium sized software house Maureen Jensen: (Infinitie Possibilities) Pankaj Kamthan: (Concordia University) Ranoj Saha: I strongly feels the same. Need more articles about it. Cori Dollette Peele: (Appsability) Steven Deller: (Smooth Sailing LLC) A long while back, I had the idea of developing software using a defect tracking tool from the very start of the project. The idea was to start with a single defect, to wit "The system does not work.". Then using defect factoring, repeatedly refine the defect descriptions until they were specific capabilities, such as "The system does not synchronize with the satelite signal.". Once a defect was sufficiently factored, a test could be written for that defect. Then the defect would be worked on (and effort tracked by defect) until there was software that passed the defect-exposing test. That process seemed "obviously elegant" to me. After all, when there is no software, there is one huge defect :-). But this in the mid-70s and it was too radical for anyone to consider it. Imagine my delight on finding Martin Fowler's discussions on XP and then tracking the Web to this site. The "agile software" ideas all resonate with me. (Whether I write a defect and then write a test, or write a test and thus have a defect because the test fails is a moot distinction.) In my 30 years of programming, I have frequently used Agile programming principles and techniques. (I don't pretend that I codified the ideas as well as the Agile Alliance, but do believe I've been on the same track.) I've got some war stories where the Agile programming techniques used only partly and without the clear descriptions at this site, nonetheless resulted in extraordinary successes. I am curious though, how design and code inspections might fit with XP and Agile techniques. Inspections (Fagen-like) have been a mainstay in my successful software endeavors from the start. The interactions in a properly run inspection rapidly meld a group of programmers into a team with common goals. Perhaps "Test Inspections" might be appropriate for XP :-). Regards, Steve Klaus Lieser: I agree with R. Buckminster Fuller: "Form always follows Function". Bogdan Craciun. Andrea Rodriguez: (NEO) William G. Struve: (aaiPharma) Right on! David Markle: (Optical Innovations, Inc.) Using this methodology we delivered an eProcurement solution in 6 weeks with 3 developers. The end-clients were ecstatic, the board of directors gave us a pat on the back, and we moved on the next project knowing we had accomplished something special. Agile. The failed project that proceeded this one lasted over three years, wasted millions of dollars, and alienated clients. Traditional. Enough said. Fabio Pettinati: (Voreas, Inc.) I have been practicing the principles of agile programming for quite a while with increased success compared to status quo practices. In our company, we implemented a similar methodology, called "Wind Rose", that encompasses the main principles of agile programming, as well as in-depth client involvement and collaborative specification and reviews. In these times of economic uncertainty, agile programming can be a signficant factor in increasing a project's ROI, not to mention its chance of suceeding. John Zoetebier: (Transparent Systems) How true the Agile Manifesto is can only be appreciated after having worked in many projects for many organisations. A saying in one of the companies was "For a good programmers the specs fit on the size of a cigarette box". I do not promote smoking, but agree with the spirit of the statement. I have seen project managers produce nothing but paperwork without any concrete result. I have seen managers driving companies insane by enforcing Service Level Agreements between departments of the same company. After many years I discovered one single factor for the succes of any project: the talent of a few people in a project. This more than anything else counted for the succes of the project and the organization. There seems to be an almost religious believe in many companies that procedures, manuals and contracts lead to good systems. Nothing could be further away from the truth. I have witnessed over and over again: the Agile Manifesto is what makes a project tick. Jay Bitsack: (ACORE) Most everyone knows what God's first equation is. Now, we have an inkling of what His second is likely to be... Agility = Speed + Flexibility. That is, this type of collaborative thinking and associated team effort is capable of moving the world toward a new era in terms of elevating man's ability to translate information into action (aka leverage knowledge). In conjunction with the on-going evolution of Web Services, the potential here appears to be enormous. Consequently, I look forward to following and supporting the development of this revolutionary capability. Olav Maassen: (Itis J-solutions) Software should do what it is intended for: it should make work easier. Agile is a step to keep developers honest about this goal. Johnny Howland: (DoDDS Pacific) I'm behind you 100% Vera Peeters: (Tryx) You may be proposing a nice xp-ish process you've seen working before, but if it doesn't click for this team, you have to change the process -because the individuals are more important- even though your contract with the customer stated 'introduce xp for us'. This is the true meaning of responding to change... :-) Dorai Thodla: (iMorph, Inc.) Sanjay Raghavan: (Masters Student) It's exciting. A focus on people is a catalyst for new ideas. Jane Hao. Dieter Eickstaedt: (deiCon Softwareservice GmbH) As an Open Source Evangelist, I strongly support the manifest as the basis for good and professional Free Software Projects. Stefan Schuerger: (AMDOCS Germany) This is a "back to business" approach, very much agreeable. I've seen too many cases of over-regulation, where one couldn't see the woods for all the trees... With reduced procedure overhead, we can provide more value for our customers. Jane Hao: I am a Chinese software engineer and my concerntration area was CMM in my graduate study. I am quite interest in Agile and support the Agile Manifesto! Edgar Sánchez: (Objeq) We develop software in Ecuador, Southamerica. In cash-constrained environments like Latin American countries it becomes even more important to deliver as early as possible working software. Not to talk about the constant turmoil in the region, change down here more than a constant is almost a disease. Thus, I deeply feel that for countries like mine the principles of the Agile Manifesto more than a good option are question of survival. Ann Godfrey: (Suncorp) I am a relative newcomer to Agile, developing and implementing the process into a banking environment whose general community are totally indoctrinated in 'heavy' process, methodologies and documentation. It's been an interesting year, but I am convinced that this is a valuable and practicable model for them - particularly in light of the trends toward Web developing for banking/finance. Manoj Khanna: (Eversun Software Corporation) We have been practicing agile methodologies for a couple of years now. And we have been able to produce best results, were able to deliver on time and cut our costs and resources too. We believe that agile methods are the way to success, and they fulfill the stringent requirements of a large to mid-scale level software projects. Without it a manager would be handicap as they have been for many years now. Its time for a change, its time to be agile. Volker Brandt: (develop group) I really appreciate the publication of the agile manifest. It should be learned by heart and followed by all developers and project managers out there. Martin Leclerc: I have tried it. Never seen such happy customers :-) Robert McMichael: Done right, with true commitment to these ideals, the results are a beautiful thing to behold. Done in half measures, a tragedy of what might have been. Ali Kousari: (Algotech SA) I am supporting Agile. Tired of being inneficient and listening to the managerial bullshit (excuse the language but this is not a technical paper). Plz standby Bruce Woods: (NOLA Computer Services) We have been using Agile methods, specifically XP, since January 2000. The way software evolves in an agile development is natural. Our customers benefit from seeing, touching and using the software earlier in the development process than a typical waterfall development. Also, our customers appreciate receiving a new release of software much more than a document indicating what software they may or may not receive in the future. Jerry Smetzer: (State of Alaska - Department of Fish and Game) I'm very interested in your user-oriented approach to building apps, and am trying to apply the major features of it to our new projects. George V. Woodrow III. Mike Kenworthy: Please convey this to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. They are operating in the dark, very dark ages, and their client, the US Government, is suffering because of this. Antony Grinyer: Being a software developer in the industry I am at constant exposure to the many problems associated with the development lifecycle. In my opinion the agile manifesto is the most exciting and 'realistic' way forward for software development...I'm looking forward to adopting this methodology in my practises. Jaroslaw Borelowski: (NEUROSOFT) Mac Felsing: (ProcessExchange) Paul Reynolds. Ranjiva Prasad: Superb development methodology. Getting a lot of deserved recognition in my organisation. John A. Kunecke: (self) I have utilized the principals of the Agile Manifesto in my work for years (~15), only a few of my peers and fewer of my mangement have appreciated it. Please note the award from my supervisor (http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/portal/135/SubPages/RecogBoeIDEF.htm) regarding the results of a process I developed. fred stewart: (BAE Systems/Enterprise Systems Inc.) I strongly concur with the principle focus on persons and collaboration (i.e, individuals and interaction) vs. processes and tools, with the follwing caveats: 1) coherent processes subordinated to facilitating collective productivity are indispensable to effective collaboration; 2)tools subordinated to facilitating collaboration-friendly processes are almost indispensable to effective collaboration. I also see this principle as having a broader application than software development - e.g., agile approaches to process improvement (which of course should mean improved facilitation of collaboration!). Karl-Heinz Werner: (Beta Systems Software AG) Patricia Henao: (Enabling Resources) Edward Stanford: (Microcosm, Inc.) raghava: Productive,effectual and prompt conduct. John Alvaro Ariza Escamilla: (YanHaas S.A.) Bo Carlsson: (Posten Sverige AB) Throughout my years as software developer I've found that individual motivation and responsibility among all project members are the main factors behind a successful project. With close customer collaboration we become a team focusing all energy on fighting risks instead of each other. Siva Kumar. Cagil Seker: (Core Computer Security Group) As a 'hacker's style methodology, we are welcome, ready to support and use in our projects, the AGILE philosophy; as we have always believed in it since we've first met with a keyboard, even before it has given a name. Software Development is NOT engineering, it is ART plus EXPERTISE plus SCIENCE = "CRAFT" ! Cagil Seker (Ça??l ?eker [ISO8859-9]) Core Computer Security Group Paal Kristian Levang: (Common Technology, Telenor mobil) Agile Development is a must if your wants to do alteration work on an internet system. Martijn Elzinga: (believe IT consulting) We believe that IT works... Signing The Agile Manifesto is a statement not only for ourself but also towards the industry that "we" have a responsibility towards our clients ... to do things the agile way.. Ionel Munoz: "Responding to change over following a plan". I love that part of The Manifesto. It doesn't exclude having a well-defined strategy. "Responding to change" is about tactics, and still a strategy in itself. Patrick M. Bailey: (Grand Valley Statue University) After 20 years, getting the job done boils down to this: motivated people who are trained. John McEntire: (McEntire and Associates) These methodologies and philosophies work! The first time I tried to introduce eXtreme Programming, I announced it to everyone and bought each of them books. There was very little interest and we set it aside. Then throughout the next eighteen months period we quickly and ‘quietly’ adapted elements of the entire Agile approach. As a result a small group of developers with limited experience released six complex and reliable web based applications. David Butt: (Project Manager) I have worked with and studied agile systems development for 4 years. My experience has taught me that this approach is clearly the best when it comes to delivering systems and business change. Through the British Computer Society, I hope to establish a UK centre of competence forum, open to all interested parties; to exchange ideas and raise the awareness/ understanding of ASD across the UK. Tort Ren: I think the good design is also important and valued. Here, "good" design means fewer effort cost than the "bad" one while the change happen. Alejandro Cuéllar Gaxiola: (http://www.alexcuellargaxiola.net) I'm complety agree with the manifesto. I have 24 years of software development, that is why I know when I tell all of you, that you are focusing on the right issues of software development!!! David Harris: (EDS) Having worked as a poject manager for many years I have come to see the short comings of project effort necessarily falling into lockstep with rigid methodologies that are normally enforced by host organisations. I totally support standards, especially easily measured standards but am too often frustrated in my effort to satisfy client needs by needing to adhere to orthodoxy to the detriment of client satisfaction. Holger Stenzhorn: (XtraMind Technologies) Carlos Henrique. William Nortman: (Setting Star Studio) Agile manifesto is the way to better software. It delivers what the customers really want, when they want it. Terri Emerson: (WorkforceROI Corp) Reza Rad: (EMC) Arjuna Chala: (GE) Innes Ferguson: (B2B Machines) Franco Martinig: (Methods & Tools) As a software developper and knowledge transmitter for software development professionnals, I support all efforts to provide alternative processes for specific project needs and to consider people as the main factor of influence in software development project successes (and failures... :-]) Steve Konieczka: (SCM Labs, Inc.) We believe that the key to successful Agile software projects is the use of "effective" software configuration management. It must support constant integration, refactoring, and be 100% available in a way that's lighhtweight, low cost of use, and flexible. Bruce D. Kyle: (Concord Mfg) This is a breath of fresh air for developers and customers. Hans Molenaar: (Niobion B.V.) Agility in software creation restates once again the importance of the primairy rule of software architecture and engineering: ...separation of concerns... Michael Goode: (FEDEX) ILYA Levchenko. Carl Mastyla: "Working software over comprehensive documentation" - you're damn right. Nick Zdunic: (Strategic Systems) This is one of the most sensible things to come through in IT. To me this quantifies common sense - which no one ever does. It takes the EGO out of software development through the XP techniques and the principles have been something I've always felt but I've never felt such a unity as this, in that it reinforces my opinions on software development. It encourages me to grow and disregard the baggage of bulky methodologies and EGO centric developers and lets me get to the crux of the matter and produce good well crafted software that is easy to maintain. That's the important thing - THE CODE. I'm looking forward to growing with this movement - the positiveness I feel it is engendering has given me a new reason for being in the IT industry. Mike Rowe, Ph.D. : (University of Wisconsin - Platteville) Nick Jones: (LogicaCMG) Jon Barnett: (Amity Solutions Pty Ltd) Managing software development without constraining the creativity of design. Alexander Mamchur: To tell the truth (on SW development process), to follow that truth (in most natural manner) – that’s agile methods core! Dan Pollitt: (IBM (UK)) I am part of a team practicing XP to deliver components to Enterprise-scale middleware products - acknowledging the different guises our customers appear in. I have also set up an XP special interest group to promote and coach the adoption of XP within the software lab - hoping to prove that lightweight methodologies can be adopted in a traditionally super-formal environment. Bhanu Prakash. Carol Shepherd. Michael Sherman: (Viewlocity) Executive Vice President and CTO for Viewlocity's supply chain management applications. Darren Govoni: (metadapt) Alan Hopkins. Jacob motola: (Security Services International) As an athlete agility drills were fundemental to the development and expression of athletic ability in the context of achieving success in a specific sport. Agilie Software Development as interpreted from our manifesto, describes the fundementals necessary for the timely, fiscally responsible and successful development of applications for business and personal use. ASD is a commonsensical approach to a complex and sensitive endeavor. It has a contextual appropriateness to the world and business environments we live and work in. I look forward to the changes and refinements yet to come. Ryan Shriver: (Dominion Digital) Humberto Perez: (Microsoft Enterprise Services) Great idea about new direcctions of development. but is time to put business view into development process. DURAND Emmanuel: (edurand.com) Oliver Kamps. Dick Carlson: Agility, applied to every software engineering activity, has the potential of being what things should be in the first place – without the extra baggage. Paolo Di Pietro: (Diviana) Henrik Kniberg: (http://www.kniberg.com/henrik/) Over the past decade I have started several tech companies and had the opportunity to experiment with various development processes. During the past 1 - 2 years XP has been my favorite toy and so far it has worked very well, although I have not yet tried with large teams. However I think dogmatically sticking to any one methodology is counterproductive - in the end experience, common sense, and an open mind is what counts. I fully agree with the principals of the agile manifesto, and I especially like the fact that is presented as a set of principals rather than a methodology. Ponnurangam: (Language Technology Research Centre) Oliver Senti: (OMS Engineering) Thanks for your great job! It's very helpfull to me and my team. Kind regards from Switzerland. Oliver Patrick Hohmeyer: A bridge on your map just wont make your car fly over the river. Carl Bacher. Adriana Gasca [Mexico]: (NetApps Sa de CV) Que bueno que regresamos al placer de desarrollar software sin tantas distracciones y procesos innecesarios y latosos. Matias Urroz: (Topystems) Harold Meder: (NC Office of EMS) - I support the Agile Manifesto as a goal worth pursuing and act as a change agent towards achieving this goal within the organization while applying its precepts to my own activities. Huet Landry: (Unisys / U.S. Customs) It's good to be able to reference established practices that are supported by the proponents of the CMM, but are less rigid than legacy practices. Our teams were approaching Agile practices, but did not know it until we found this site. Now we have some thing to fight off the bureaucrate who keep trying to shoehorn us into a waterfall methodology. Cornel Fota: (Semotus Systems Corp.) Miguel de Lucas: (Intesys) Mylčne Reiners. Anko Tijman: (Van Meijel Automatisering) As being a professional tester, having worked in very BDUF organizations, I believe that being able to be agile in your development method is essential to deliver the maximum of quality to the customer. Johanna Rothman: (Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.) Those of us who've been in the field a long time recognize these common-sense techniques are what works. Ian Shimmings: A revelation! At last, all the feelings of frustration working within traditional methodologies and project management frameworks have just fallen into place. After years of trying to use many of these agile techniques in my own development teams and believing there had to be a better way I find there is and there are many others who think the same. I guess I must have just had my head in the sand all this time! Hearing rumours of 'other ways' and having time during long train journeys to a client I read Alistair Cockburn’s “Agile Software Development” and have since devoured every related book I can get my hands on. It has really rejuvenated my enthusiasm for this business! Peter Vruggink: (LogicaCMG) Steve Buzzard: (Anexinet Corp) Chris Keever. David Wible: Thank you for making an effort to use human beings in a human way. dw Sidath Dissanayake. Peter C. Ruth: (Adaptive Software Technologies) I have been a proponent and practitioner of much of what has come to be called Agile Software Development methodologies since 1972. I congratulate the founders and members of this movement for their leadership and courage in the search for "a better way" to build "the software of tomorrow". Andrew Genduso. lalit: (barra) Don Nelson: Agile approaches have always intrigued me. I'm an early adopter of ZTM (Zero Time to Market) and disposable software philosophies. I'm also a proponent of agile techniques while maintaining the robustness of an architecture-driven development process. In any successful methodology or approach to a problem, the primary requirement is initial organization - more so with agile techniques than any other. I would like to contribute by helping to identify additional team and organization attributes that need to be identified and channeled into useful, strategic actions. Hope I can help, Don Nelson dononelson@earthlink.net 303-816-9397 Ryan Geyser: (Bank Windhoek) Your methodology sounds great. It makes sense and sounds like this is the way development is conducted in any case, whatever formal methodology is being used. I can't wait to try it! Jasper Blues. Merv Hammer: (Software Sculptures) I am a developer working for a small Norwegian IT company. I am, however, in the process of founding a software company that seeks to achieve a number of things that I have found echoed in your principles of Agile Software Development. I envisage that my small company will attempt to encapsulate the communitarian ethos of the the free and open source software communities, specialising in re-cycled code, teamwork and the development of a "development bio-rhythm" which will be viewed as a kind of emergent property shared between the client and Software Sculptures where both contribute openly, freely and interpret the final sculptures continuously as it takes form. For this reason, I would like to try to stir up a trend of pricing software for the hours and creativity involved in its creation rather than for the code underneath. And of course, our code shall be open and available. Thank you all for the encouragement you have afforded me. And with your permissions, i shall certainly intend to make use of the Agile Software Principles in the creation of a genuinely creative and transparent environment at Software Sculptures. V. Chandrasekhar: Amen! John D. Peterson: (Barontown Software Services) I highly recommend Object Mentor's Extreme Programming Immersion Training - regardless of your methodological tendencies. Frank S. Sampson: (Kipe and Associates, Inc.) People, not paper, makes the difference. Shirley Shen: I hope to contribute as much as I can to the spread and prosperousness of the agile process together with others. Luis Vasquez Kocchiu: To the future and beyond J. Dave Sheremata: (IONA Technologies, PLC) Having been an XP zealot for a couple of years now, the Agile Manifesto is even more beautiful in that it is stated more simply than other contemporary development practices. Because it is concise and more refined, it is easier for the disciples of more rigid practices to begin to question and understand than the more elaborate web of XP or RUP. Cheers to evolution! Jeff Cooper. Donald Kretz: Over the years, I have wasted too much time producing reams of documentation that no one ever read, and building software that no one ever used. Customer interaction and prototyping has been the key to our recent success. This is the way to go! Diogo Duarte: I liked this one "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done" Bruno Navert: (Logient) Brad Winslow: (Iris Graphics, Inc.) Jonathan Logan: (Merant Corporation) Quality development and delivery requires an organizational and individual commitment to deep listening to the customers and to each other, to on going process improvement, an unending willingness and flexibility to learn & grow, and the full access to and use of only the best tools, resurces and practices. All the best of success! Jonathan Heine: (The hospital of Holstebro i Denmark) John Tangney: (JD Tangney & Assoc.) As a specialist in web-based applications, I cannot conceive of any viable alternative to an Agile process. For decades, we Software practioners have struggled with various Processes and Methodologies which purport to decrease defect rates and improve time to market. In almost all instances, those Processes and Methodologies impose artifical and unnatural constraints on all participants, stiffling whatever creative spirit we might bring to the defect and schedule problems. Simply put, Agile processes don't. Instead, they encourage what we do well and put in place safety nets to save us from those areas in which we [humans] don't do as well. Paul Morris: It's about time we have an approach to software development that focuses on practical aspects rather than theories and academic wisdom. Graham Menhennitt: (Menhennitt Consultants Pty. Ltd.) Sharon Jefet. roberto marinelli: (MTD Tecnologia) Do not automate bad operational processes Uwe Kubosch: Hear, hear! Pragmatic programming is the only way programming can lead to prosperity and happiness. donV Jared Smith: (White Hat) Thank God for this agile manifesto! A ray of light streaming out over the software industry. As a person who strives continually in an environment where people think these ideas are unworkable, I'm grateful to find a simple and clear place on the web to point people, adding context to my earnest appeal for user-centered software. Please note that software according to the agile principles is software in alignment with the great commandment to love our neighbor; other methods cause us to contend instead of search for the virtues of practical humility. Mike Woodhouse. Javier Smaldone: (http://www.smaldone.com.ar) John Wolter: (Wolter Works) The Agile Manifesto's values offer to any development an opportunistic dynamic interaction that extends not just to technical work but to the business side of any product. Agile gives freedom from perscriptive plans and processes that strangle taking dynamic advantage of emerging technical opportunities and changes. Agile Development is not anarchy, it, for each project, defines a flexible fair playing field through declaritive constraints where the best results can emerge. It is creativity with focus, process when needed, goals with exploration, collaboration with individual accomplishment, and constant evolutionary optimumization of results to meet project needs. Patrick Parato: (Compression Software) I have been meaning to add my name to this list for a long time. Agile methodologies make developing kick-ass software fun again. Giving the customer the control they deserve, letting the programmer just do thier job, and building a strong team of people who work well together, just makes sense. How come other methodologies don't realize this! Raymond Salzwedel: Liberating! Bill Holloway: I'm proud to sign on to the manifesto. I view it as a monumental milepost in the history of software engineering. Cliff Gregory, PhD: (AgilityWare) We as a company believe that the only means to make software effectively and on-time/on budget is using the agile processes. Pat Beckham: (AgilityWare) This is proven process! Steven Wright: (AgilityWare) We belive in Agile Process Colin MacDonald: (WestOne Services) We have adopted the agile approach and have reaped the rewards of working closer with our customers. Our only issue is converting those devotes of the waterfall methodology to the benefits of agility. Jean Morgan: (Wilhen Associates Limited) The Agile Manifesto - the direction towards which we should all be moving Paula Thornton: (http://www.iknovate.com) Let's do it! Ronny Tocaj: (RytKonsult) Stefan Roock: (IT Workplace Solutions) Agile software development means customer orientation for software development. Sally Jenkins. Charles W. Stump II: After many years of software development in both product and project environments, I am convinced that Agile is the key to success. I am also convinced that Agile development and monolithic processes such as CMMI can coexist if people recognize the benifits of both. David Kavanagh: I'm glad others share the same values for software development. I almost thought documenting it went against "agile", but you did keep it brief and to the point! :-) Jiri Cincura: (independent developer) Yes. Rick Sline: (Custom Programming Solutions) Agile Development provides a much needed common sense approach. Anthon Pang: (http://www.softwaredevelopment.ca) It is fear of the items on the left under adverse conditions that the items on the right have dominated traditional methods of developing software. Complementing these values are those from XP: communication, simplicity, feedback, and courage. Louis Garrett: (DatabaseHelp.net) Thanks for formalizing a way out of Dilbert's world for teams who can successfully produce software without first writing a novel or demanding one from the customer. I was previously frustrated by serial processes and the uncertainty that the industry could invent lightweight alternatives. I can now be frustrated by the knowledge that strong alternatives exist, but they're not understood or embraced by my clients or coworkers. After suffering under the label "cowboy coder" for so long, it's nice to find respected voices who confirm that it's possible to build great software by quickly building good software that evolves toward greatness. I'll contribute these tired refrains to the group from my limited bag of tricks: "They won't know what they want until we show them something they don't want." "We can't expect them to drive up and order software like they would a burger and fries. It's easy to imagine a burger with either ketchup or mustard. It's hard to imagine robust software systems. Let's stop expecting wildly creative visions in the early stage when they're not likely or necessary." F. Andy Seidl: (MyST Technology Partners) I became an ardent "agilist" (is there such a word?) about two years ago when I read Robert K. Weiler's opinion piece in Information Week (http://www.informationweek.com/830/30uwrw.htm). Arun Kumar: (ADP) This addresses to a certain extent the important issue of alignment between IT and Business. As an IT community, we haven't earned the trust from Business that we could not only deliver but could also drive the business. Agile methodology is the way to go and this has the potential to solve the productivity paradox. Tom Godbold: Great work. Iulian Ursache. Juan Felipe Machado Guzman: (TES America) After a lot of tries with processes, I finally found a metodology for small groups, that guaranties quality and don't compromise delivery times. Thanks!!! Eelco Hillenius: This is how it should be! In my experience though, it's still the commercial people selling projects to commercial people using commercial arguments (crap mostely) instead of realistic arguments. Dilbert's world is still in effect as long as the buying process does not change. Joe Short: (AT&T Government Solutions) Agile engineering methodologies are a natural evolution from the current traditional framework approach. My hope is that we realize a concurrent transformation in the Configuration Management and Quality Assurance disciplines as well, resulting in transparent and complete product assurance that is woven into the product's lifecycle. athinarayanan: I whole heartedly support the manifesto. Gonzalo Quan: (Pixel Draw) You guys have just summed up in the manifesto my whole 4 years working as a web developer. Great stuff.. wish more developpers would think like this. Syed Omer Jilani: I would say "Creativity" over following a Plan ...... but nonetheless Left hand sides are definitely more important.... Scott R Snider: (MacAulay-Robinson) Elegance of design - simple, powerful, effective and adaptable is essential for the true success of any system - software or otherwise. Elegance only arises through an organic rather than rigid development process. Marimuthu P: (Satyam computers services Ltd) Striving for growing and improving myself, my team and my organization. Anand yashwanth: (Satyam computers services Ltd) Minkyu Lee: (Plastic Software, Inc.) I am convinced that Agile Software Development will be a dominant software development methodology. This manifesto will be a bold stroke in the software development and engineering history. David Dossot: (http://dossot.net) Just when I thought IT would unimpress me for the rest of my time down here, then came the Agile Alliance. Thanks for blowing these refreshing concepts on the embers of a dying passion, now fully revitalized. Martin Schwartzman: I endorse the values present in the manifesto even though work needs to be done on how an agile process can be used in enterprise wide developement projects. There are just too many holes in the process to facilitate good cross department interface cohesion. Scott Barber: (PerfTestPlus) The importance of these concepts are to often overlooked in every stage of the software lifecycle. I am primarily a Performance Engineer, not a developer, but I recognize the importance of these values and try to apply them on all of my projects and promote them to my clients both directly and through my writings. Steve Tharp: (Devon Energy) Tom Fahlberg: (Hewlett-Packard) Thank you so much for articulating these principles. They set us free to make (and keep) the customer happy. John G. Blanco G.: (TECNYSIS - Costa Rica) C.S.Sivaramakrishnan: I strongly support that - a good architecture and a versatile design, which takes into consideration the volatile nature of the software development process is one of the best ways to improve the agility. And as Mr. Dave Thomas tells, 'the design should also be reversible in nature'. Willem Bogaerts: (Cardialysis) Couldn't have said it better. matthew gambrell: I havent been in the industry long, but it has been long enough to teach me that common sense cannot be taken for granted and is rare and precious enough to be given a name: agile development Spyros Villios. Jaime Neira. Bill Scharf: (Cross Match Technologies) Thank you for helping to legitimize these development values. Luis Villarreal: (mi.com.mx) I would like to understand and live with your philosophy made working software. Carlos Leyva: (theB2Bdepot, Inc.) Happy to see a community growing around agile techniques! johan delano taufik Msc,PhD: (Gatra Karsayasa, PT) As an individual businessman, I need a networking which will support me in running the business especially to prepare the online system with Agile's softwares development. The satisfaction will be araised as told by hundred to thousand people all over the world if we do the action as it be directed by Agile Manifesto development team. Lets start to joining with no doubt and be optimisted to face the future with success. Jason Chaffee. Craig Guarnieri: We used RUP with Agile/XP and the the results were very good Jorge DeFlon: (NetApps Mexico) Me siento feliz porque nuevamente me siento emocionado por los avances en mi profesion. Richard Blouin: (Imasoft Inc.) After having completed several projects on time and within budget, I can attest that Agile Development not only works, but that it works better than traditional methods. Francesco: Simply great! Robert Rae: (Application Programming Solutions Inc.) Excellent ideas..... The trick will be to convince managers at different levels that the agile methods are as good or better than the methods they have been using for years. vietsoft: Way to go! Ivor Fergus: (ContextWeb) Traditional development methods simply don't have a successful track records. In retrospect, the most successful projects that I’ve been involved in have employed Agile Software approaches, even though I might not have used the term to describe the approach at the time. Jonathan Kohl: Experience and experimentation in software development and QA have shown to me that the Agile Manifesto is on the money. The Agile movement fills a much-needed gap in the software development paradigm. Stephen Cooney: Think globally, act locally, and change the world for the better. Emile Deen: (CKR International, Inc) Gary King: (EKSL) It's about time. Rafael Barros: (EAN University) Sometimes we just forget the real purpose of our work. The Agile Manifesto clear us the focus. Read it, learn it... live it. C .Keith Ray: (MemoRanda) People write software for other people, so focusing on people as the most important aspect of software development is the logical place to increase the effectiveness of software development. Mustafa YILDIZ: (ISIK University - Informatics Research and Development Center) We are experiencing the benefits of Agile Software Development Methodologies in our projects and we believe that every item of the manifesto are key points of success in software development. Alan Eldridge: I've been developing this way most of my career, and I've yet to see a viable alternative. Mohd Tariq Yaqub: (Wipro Technology) Hi, I have been trained to follow processes and process and beleived in what booch said that good people with good processes always outperform good people with no processes.But I have realised that good people will always perform whether process or no processes ,that is why they are good and have their own inernal way of doing things in a good way. Mark Cawston: (MCA Ltd) I am based in Hong Kong, managing a development team in Malaysia. ruud waij: (http://waij.com) The feelings of unease present while dealing with other software development methodologies, strongly surfaced when I started reading about Agile Software Development. Favourite quote: "The list of companies most succesfully climbing up the CMM ladder early in the decade [1990s] reads like a Who's Who of downsizing by the end." (Tom DeMarco in the foreword of Agile Development Ecosystems by Jim HighSmith.) Govindan Chandran: I think the principles of Agile Infrastructure are essential today and in the future because software cycles today are measured in weeks and days instead of years and months. Christoph Steindl: Take the best of both (or all) worlds. Know your goal and take the best way to get there - be it agile or more rigorous. Lyle Snider. Sriram Srinivasan. Emilis Dambauskas: I Support the Agile Manifesto! :) Toby Jackson: (United Health Group) Michael New. Drew Noakes: (drewnoakes.com) I've spent the last year working with ThoughtWorks as an Agile developer, during which time I've seen the possibility of realising such values through Agile methods within even the most traditional environments. The value that's delivered to our clients permits the counter-conventional approaches taken to software development. Thijs Janssen. Ulrich Vogelsang: (FJA) I'm that much infected by the agile way for a few years now that I finally feel the need to sign here. Thank you guys. Richard Brodie. Thomas Fihlman: (Callista IT-Partner) I fully support the four statements Dan Means: (SRS Consulting, inc.) People always first. Oles: (FMS) Ashraf Awartani: (Estarta Solution) James Cran: I used to work like the left side, until the process engineers began to take over our IT dept. The whole point of creating a process to follow is to limit the mistakes of the least productive. This, then, handcuffs the most productive, because more of their time is now spent creating documents to support the process and inform the micro-managers. Obviously there is a balance, because zero documentation means zero knowledge capture. I love the Manifesto, as it attempts to strike that balance - which is all that reasonable developers ever wanted anyway. Jens Meiert: (meiert.com) Michael Krumlauf: I wholeheartedly agree with the principles outlined here in the Manifesto. I believe that these principles show the value of the individual software craftsman. We are not an indistinguishable group of interchangeable parts, but rather a varied population of developers with individual strengths. Dan Gosche. Kim Jung Hyun: (Contela) Following this manifesto will ensure not only better softwares but also better developers Ravindra. S: As Quality Manager for a reputed IT company, I wish to understand Agile process and implement the same for improving our product quality and customer satisfaction levels. Andrew Peters. Dan Drechsel: (eCodeWorks) The only way to really build software - manage it through people. Bill Plummer: For those of us who have been there and recognize a better solution... Susan Folkes: (Grandison Consulting) Paul Rodriguez: (freelance, for hire) In the old days we had ssadm (five letters)..now we have 4 (jfdi) ;o) ;o) Eric S. Raymond: (Open Source Initiative) It has become more and more obvious over the last few years that agile programming and the Unix/open-source culture are converging. A lot of what you guys are doing sharpens and articulates practices that have been part of the Unix inheritance for decades. Some of what you're doing challenges Unix assumptions in useful ways. I'm beginning to think that I see the outline of a mature, *humane* discipline of software engineering emerging, and that it will be in large part a blend of the boldness of the agile movement with the wesdom and groundedness of the Unix tradition, expressed in open source. Bill Kasper: (Island Networks Ltd.) Terse is elegant. N.R.Suresh: I , deep from my heart, feel that the Agile Methodology is the best solution for a software development. It overcomes the shortcomings of the conventional software development methodlogies. And from developer point of view, I like the way it gives importance to the individual rather than the designation. I hand my full support to the Agile Methodologies. Sean Golden. Derek Anderson: (Kered.org) Robert Holler: (VersionOne, LLC) Chris Danaceau: The simplicity principle especially caught my eye. I've always felt that was essential for producing a robust and maintainable product. Nav Dhunay: I fully support the Agile Manifesto. The whole concept of reducing processes and focusing on communication and interaction is a breath of fresh air. It's like going back to the way we originally did software development. Ricardo Gacitua: (Universidad del Bio-Bio) I join my opinion to the Agile Manifesto. From Chile, best regards Nagaraju: (Independent Consultant) This is Atlas Shrugged in real life! It is good to see a community of people who think the same thoughts. Would like to add the following to the manifesto though: 1. The only index of intentions is the actions performed. 2. The only index of performance is the results produced. Omair Hamid: (AgileAgility) I love Kris Read! He is the man! He introduced me to Agile Methods and my business, my life, my health have all improved. What genius. The way of the 21st century. Angelo Pacifico: Keep it simple as possible. Agile sound also with pragmatic. I'm Working with .Net Platform from September 2000. This platform contains all ingredients to be agile in new application devlopment. Phil Hsu: (IMT) Jennifer Fortner: As a certified Project Management Professional, I highly value comprehensive project documentation. However, I firmly believe that a project that does not create true customer satisfaction is a failure. In that respect, I encourage all software developers to ensure that end users are involved in User Acceptance Testing. Far too many companies assume that testing against requirements is enough. Unfortunately, it is often during UAT that customers identify some of their most critical requirements. Yannis Rizos: Go Agile! Ludovic Hoarau: According to me, Agile Manifesto is within every developer. Agile is the way to express it. Mike Hall: (Samsung) I believe that the Agile approach is by far the most appropriate software paradigm for a future filled with increasingly complex applications and dynamic business models. Samsung Telecommunications America will strive to continue using agile methods in our R&D efforts. Donnal Walter, MD: (UAMS and Arkansas Children's Hospital) As a practicing clinician, nearly every day I see ways that computer technology could be used to improve the healthcare that my colleagues and I provide, or make rendering that care easier, or both. Rarely, however, does existing software meet the needs of the specific situation. Thus I have long wished for the capability to develop custom clinical applications that are effective, reliable, maintainable, and of course timely. The word I have often used to describe the custom (clinical) software development process is evolution. "Evolutionary software" is adaptive, responding to change rather than following a strict plan, evolving through incremental improvements, one step at a time. This approach values individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, collaboration over ownership. And these principles happen to be those promoted by the Manifesto. Robert Henrichs: (Sewanhaka Systems Corp.) Restoring the art to programming. If programming were only the mechanics or the methodology then computers could program themselves. Pascal TRACLET: (Atos Origin Multimedia) Babis Marmanis: (http://www.marmanis.com/) The Agile movement is the natural reaction to a formalistic perspective of developing software. It resembles the difference between pure mathematics versus applied or engineering mathematics. Hundreds of years of experience in mathematical sciences shows that, although there is merit in strict formalism, significant progress comes from a more "agile" attitude towards the use of mathematics. Dirac's delta would have been postponed for decades had the physicists waited the formalists to sort things out. When formalism and processes overwhelm the development team, efficiency is reduced, innovation almost disappears, customer competitive advantage evaporates, and customer satisfaction transforms into customer aggravation. The mere existence and acknowledgement of the Agile Manifesto brings a counter-weight that balances the current perspective that dominates our industry today. Shawn Ali. Diego Gil: (Admin S.A.) Maurizio Sapienza: The real thing is how to prevent people to hide their weakness behind too formalized processes and documents es well as informal relationship and lack of responsability. Gary Ardito: (Novell) Ashutosh Bijoor: (Reach1to1 Communications) Agile software development benefits are manifold. We have practised agile development methodologies for several years, and for every single project and product developed by us. Reach1to1 Communications delivers results - consistently, thanks to its agile development awareness. We hereby sign the Agile Software Development Manifesto as an earnest call to developers and users to use and demand agile methods. Edward de Jongh: (Little Buddha Digital) There are no gurus only passionate mammals Chirag Gandhi: (Apar Infotech) Agile Manifesto is the key to success and satisfaction in every business. Cem Kaner: (Florida Tech) Paul Umbers: I've always valued simplicity and flexibility in the software development process and I think the Agile Manifesto summarises those concepts for me. Milan Popovic: I am a Univeristy professor in CS, and I am glad to see new ideas for better sw development. John Tobler: (http://weblogs.asp.net/jtobler/) I have experienced the full range from no "methodology" to far too much. From moment to moment, I seek the proper balance point along the dynamic continuum. John Goodsen: (RADSoft) Agile is our middle name - wait, we don't have a middle name! Kevin Cole: (Cole Consulting) This is an approach to software that would have made Buckminster Fuller proud. Albert K.H. Kwan. Derek Wade: "Simplicity -- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done -- is essential..." Right on! The physical definition of "work" is "force through a distance" (W = F * d). Pushing against a problem with all your might matters little if the problem hasn't "moved." Just because effort is being expended does not mean work is being done. Just because we're working long hours, or putting code into production, does not mean we're helping the customer, or solving our business problems. I have always been a proponent of results over effort. In a discussion with my former advisor, I mentioned the disparity between the goal of cranking out code vs. the goal of creating software that solves problems. He had this quote for me: "Industrious people create industry -- lazy people create civilization." Peter S Ingham. David Loeffler. Christian Edward Gruber: (Israfil Consulting Services Corporation) I have lived this for over 10 years - it's a shame so few of my employers and contract holders realized it. Lutz Hankewitz: (HR + IT) The people are the key to growth. If we treat them with high regard we find loyalty and power and in the end excellent software. Wojciech Ganczarski: It is the most pure way of building software. Terry Levings: (Australian Department of Health & Ageing) Przemyslaw Skrzek: (Swiss Soft Poland) I love it! I would like to make it work in my company! Although I have tons of questions since I heard about Agile, I deeply believe it must work! We tried it for a while and the results are unbelivable. Conceptually, in 3 months we did more than last 3 years! Abraham Perahia: (The House of Quality) Interactions and cooperation are the best processes ever. Correctly responding to changes is the best plan possible. Thank you for putting down clearly what we felt for a long time. James Foster: (Fargo, North Dakota) Jamal Anvar Parakandy. Youngrok Yu: (Advanced Institute of Information Technology) Michael Dalton: Finally, some people who "get it" are forming a community of thought about what software (and product in general) development is *really* about. Count me in in any way I can contribute. Khoa Pham: (AgilityWare) I think Agile Develope will bring the business of making software into being real enineering.. Jiri Lundak: (http://www.lundak.org) Each and every project not conducted in the agile spirit that goes overboard in time and budget (and there are lots of those), demonstrates the validity of the agile movement's maxims. Let's work together to convince managment of this fact. Naveen Krishnaswamy: (Blueslate Solutions) Agile Programming & Agile Testing is the way to go. We have used Xtreme programming and found its very useful and customers love it. j hutton. Satish Pendse: (Godrej Infotech Ltd.) The idea sounds interesting and is indeed the need of the hour. How it takes care of issues related to CMM / ISO can be thought of. We are in fact piloting a proto-type methodology for faster SW development in our organization. With incresing interaction amongst SW developers, this idea is going to catch up fast. Gianni Jacklone: A pragmatic methodology that embraces change, promotes communication, and produces quality. Jan Pabellon: (Ecommsite Solutions) We have found its principles practical to work with and implement. It works for us in our project development efforts. Christopher Meisenzahl. Ken Riehl: (PC Rescue Computer Services) Sunil Tadwalkar: (Satyam Computers Services Ltd) Samir Kulkarni: (KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.) Brent Kinard. John Hopkins. Michael Ganss: (O&O Services GmbH, Berlin, Germany) Agile methods and Extreme Programming in particular have influenced my thinking towards software developments very strongly. I believe deeply in this new approach. Before I had read "Extreme Programming Explained" a couple of years ago I knew there had to be a better way than the frustrating projects I was involved then. Extreme Programming is that way. Unfortunately, up until now I have not been lucky enough to be involved in an "all XP" project, although I won't stop trying with every new project. The biggest hurdle IMO is customers who don't have a software development background, i.e. they don't know there is such a thing as software development methods, let alone agile methods. Going from 0 to 100 with these customers is very hard. Also it seems to me fixed scope contracts are deeply rooted in (at least German) business society. I'd like to thank the signatories of the agile manifesto for showing us a way of doing what I love with fun: developing software. I'm proud to be able to be a part of what I believe will change software development forever. Keep going. surya: Agile software development is a good process which removes unnecessary steps in the "assembly line". The milestones during development has to be working software with incremental functionality and complexity that is developed in collaboration with customer. Jonathan A. Smith: (Northwestern University - Academic Technologies) Jeremy Suntheimer. Kent Kingery: (http://www.kentkingery.com) Fabio Ruiz: (Conavi) Peter Lehman: (Applied Innovations Research LLC) Cooperative, articulate and considerate people comprise the best teams, the Agile Manifesto, like a compass, helps guide the team towards a common goal as any member can deviate in the fog of uncertainty, complexity and stress. Paul Friedman: I wholeheartedly agree. Eric Simmerman: (Tempest Strings Enterprises, Inc.) The best solutions are ones that upon explanation seem obvious. iliana Giannousi. Christopher J. Roberts: (MediaTech Consulting) Leon Welicki: (http://www26.brinkster.com/lwelicki) Jurjen Vorhauer: (LuminAce) Joe Fisher: (Myriad Genetics) Peter Prem: (Nihon Tetra Pak KK) Louis Salvaterra: I have used both planned and (partially) agile development approaches. The agile approach seems to offer improvements over the planned approach, at least for smaller projects. Abel Braaksma: Great value! In a while we will adopt and embrace this adage at the whole company and list our organization here. Lee Peh Long. Thaddeus: (BOSCO ITS) Interested in providing the right framework for software development to the students. I am also the Head of the Department of Computer Science in a Degree Collge Tria Brindley: (CALEB Technologies) Paul Simedrea: (ipt) Fatih Ozcan. Thomas Memmel: (University of Constance (Germany)) Raghu Havaldar. Andrew Larson. Shravan Bharathulwar: (Techspan) Rolf Kulemann: Maybe this alliance is able to influence the use of modern software development techniques like eXtreme programming based on testing, refactoring, pairprogramming and frequently integration (etc.) in a way, that people are not only talking about those techniques, but also use them in real life projects. Evan Wies. Santhosh Nair: (New G System Inc.) New G System in an IT System Integration and Software Development company with HQ in Singapore. We are focusing on implanting portal solutions for knowledge and relationship management. The vertical industry segments we focus are the Telecommunication and Travel & Tourism. In a world where the only constant is change, our success greatly depends on such people centered development and implementation practices. Therefore, we practice and promote the Agile Alliances principles. We are also committed to equipping our clients to do the same! Thomas Moedl: (DialogData) This manifesto sounds like the very best I experienced within 15 years of software implementation, design, teaching and applying methodologies. Unfortunately, in nowadays working environment, simplicity frequently tends to slip away somewhere in between defining processes and responsibilities. Thank you so much for this statement. Kev Roberts: You know it makes sense... Ragnarok Rocha: (Ingram Micro Brazil) Gamaka Perera: (Virtusa) Easier said than done, isnt it. Applying these is a daily strugle. Hope to win it one day Charles Lockhart Brooks: (http://www.pobox.com/~clbrooks) We must fight for our rights to tinker, to innovate, to improve upon previous work, and to advance the state of our art by "standing on the shoulders of giants". Jerry Andrews: (JRAndrews Consulting) Wayne Hulehan: (Washington Knowlege LLC) David S Geving. Regee K Chacko: I am a software professionel beleiving that things ought to be done differently to make satisfied customers Michael Askew: (Raytheon IIS) Kenneth von Rausch: (Workingmouse) Naveed Baqir: (National University of Sciences and Technology) Mike Griffiths: (Quadrus Development Inc) Quadrus supports the agile manifesto principles and employs agile methods to deliver exceptional customer value by focusing smart people on the real business priorities. Ben Arledge: (Monkeon Inc.) Michael Rutherford. Gaspar Chilingarov. Fred Kreuse. Avinash Bhambhani: (Odyssey Ways) A large software project can be planned in details from the inception and documented, before the actual project starts, is a perfect misconception - if as a software company our interest is to provide solutions that strategically benefit the client organization and provide a true return on investment into software. I sincerely support the Agile Manifesto and recognize the fact that our intentions as software vendors have to be to partner with clients and provide continual solutions that change the way they do business today and realize the strategic benefits of technology to suit to their specific culture, competencies and agile environment. mohammed qattan: to tell the truth i didnt use any agile methodology but i think that we suffered enough from RUP and i found many solutions for the problems we had with the last project i would like to thank you all for your thoughts and ideas and efforts in making the software development a real thing and not a myth Andrew Medvedev: (Software Development) Damiano Altomare: When I as university student, studied Software Engineering, I felt something didnt't work; When I was on job, working on real projects, many Software Engineering best prcatices simply didn't apply, moreover I recognized most of my successes were due to to the skills acquired on the programming field, and that programming was a central activity in the software development. Joel A. Adams: (Devon Consulting) Elio Landra: (Elio Landra & Associati Sas) Roy Sutcliffe: (Telelogic UK Limited) Ed Addario: (IFS North America, Inc.) Willy Farrell. Christian Sepulveda: (http://www.christiansepulveda.com) Agile Software Development is based on tried, successful methods and experience, rather than a theoretical framework. It is adaptive and pragmatic, improvisational and effective. Simply stated, it just works. Udayan Banerjee: (NIIT Ltd.) I have been developing software for last 26 years. I find that I have always followed the agile principle. Attila Rist: I've seen too many mismanaged projects that could only be rescued by agile programming. Ivana Marzura: (J.D. Edwards) The Agile Manifesto reminds us of what we are trying to do - work together to build great software that meets the customer need in an appropriate timeframe. Clive Elsworth: (Endorphin Software Ltd.) I totally support your way of doing things. It's how I've been doing it, albeit on my own, for years. It's good to see people working on turning it into a recognised discipline. David Berube: (Berube Consulting) Tauasa Timoteo: I, and the developers I work with, are committed to and focused on goal-oriented, customer-centric software development. This manifesto summarizes the principles that we hold dear. Steve Polyak: (Pearson, Inc.) Agile is working for Pearson Educational Measurement! Vijay Tanikella: (Icode) I followed this Agile Software Development methods and found good output out of that. I adhered to 1. "Individuals and interactions" and 2. "Customer collaboration" mostly than the other two principles. Diego Cánepa: (AdventurerLand Entertainment) Harihara Subramaniain: (iSOFT Research and Development) I extend my fullest support to the Agile Manifesto. Holly Sylvester: It's common sense Jean Vaillancourt: (Agrafe Studio) We think we can develop software and have fun doing it. We started our company with this goal and we've chosen to practice Agile principles because I'm convinced this is the best way to do it. Rick Obsitnik: (Northrop Grumman Information Technologies, TASC) Lori Olson: (Java Dragon Inc) The processes should not define the team. The team should define the processes. Matt Stine: (http://www.mattsbistro.com) Michael Bard: Phd student at LSU and working quality assurance tech. Jason McGeachie. Lewis Collins: (http://weblogikk.com/lewis/) Nothing impresses a customer more than working code. Scott Mayo: Let us fix what needs to be fixed. Pat Osborn: (Infinite Possibilities) The partners of our firm have been believers in this sort of methodology for years. We have seen it work time and again throughout our careers. Upon seeing it quantified, it seems only natural to become a signatory. Vincent A. Wright. Ted Blackmon: (Reality Capture Technologies, Inc.) Agility in thought ... agility in action! Mike Ogle: Fine goals that are well stated. We couldn't do better than to embrace these principles in all of our day to day development practices. klaus momberger: (igs) Agile programming: it's the path to survival as an IT consultant. Carol Zimmet. Gregor Mirai: Traditionally customer, solution provider and business environment are all separate entities. The point of view where they can all be seen as one living process, brings about the agility. Daniel Pohren: (Naphta Informatica) We are paid to produce software, not documentation... Keith Kibler: (CTDI) We have been doing this without really knowing we have been doing this! Andrea Boschin: (http://www.penpal.it) I think there is only a way to build well-working software. It is building step-by-step continuously, because there's no human brain that can imagine the full solution before it has reach. Ziya Karakaya: (Atilim University) I support the "Agile" effort because of basing their principles on reality and humanity. meade rubenstein: (IT Project Guide) I have seen GREAT benefits from the utilization of the Agile Software Development Practices. This is not only a 'theory' or proposed 'Silver Bullet', but a practical and usable set of practices that will transform your organization into one successfully utilizing IT resources. Haisheng HU: (http://www.silentme.net) From software crisis to software engineering, from structural languages to UML, from waterfall to agile, it's kinda regression, but all the more, evolution. Steve Edens: (PerformanceBPM) Good stuff. Alexander Slesarenko: It's an evolution of the process that makes the process evolutional. Glenn Irwin: (Irwinideas inc.) Finally, someone has found a way to articulate that which I have come to know and understand during my last 15 years as a professional software developer. Spread the word. Francisco Candalija: (Indra) I'm still a developer without responsabilities in taking decisions for the projects i have been working. But, reading the principles of Agile Development, I beleive it could have been the most suitable way of working in these projects, because of the lacks of well defined requirements we suffered and the size of the project (50 people during 2 years). I hope I could learn from the experiences of people who is applying this paradigm and be able to apply by myself in the future. saif iqbal: (xiomz) nice try to change traditional way of software development methods, i hope it would vanish all those useless methodologies some day. Paul Hodgetts: (Agile Logic) At Agile Logic, we've been successfully delivering agile projects since 1999. From our experiences we're convinced that agile processes represent a fundamentally better way to develop software. We believe the Agile Manifesto provides a foundation upon which a common understanding of agile development can be built. Agile Logic supports the Agile Manifesto, and is a proud Agile Alliance member. Kert Peterson: (KP Consulting) Agile principles are music to my ears! I've suffered through 13 years of "conventional" software development discord; learning that has exacted a physical and emotional toll on my teams and myself. Agile is a common-sense, humanizing, and harmonizing approach to building software. It works! Andy Lawrence: (Agileware) Agile Development's emphasis on people working together in an uncertain world puts reality back into software development. Brook Riddick: (Rogue Labs Inc.) Don Box really spoke well on this thought process at the XML Dev Con in July 2003 Marco Tabone: The Manifesto for Agile Software Development represents a set of principles that can be applied to many software development methodologies. It's a "methodology's methodology". When extrapolated, it can also be considered a methodology for life! KV Suryaprakash: Agile is the only way as of today that will yield good results for a given effort. It inherently promotes team building higher interaction across various roles and detailed indepth understanding of everything of the application. Everyone should know almost everything of the application - business req, technical knowledge, non-system requirements and an attitude to network and share knowledge. Good Software is built out of such comraderie. Boyan Angelov: (Nemetschek OOD) People over process? Code over documentation? Agile is the way! Sarat Venugopal: (Huelix Solutions PrivateLtd) Huelix Solutions underlines the messages propagated by Agile Software Development. Ricky Ng-Adam: (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal) Humans and products before mountains of paper; I like it! Edmon Begoli: (Laboratory Corporation of America) I believe that Agile promotes great ideas and software engineering practices that truly make sense. These ideas and practices are the result of long term observations by highly aware software engineers like Martin, Beck or Fowler. However, I believe that Agile works for a small, highly motivated teams. Since I am in position to define the type of the process that my company will be using, I am recommending Agile version of the UP for highly motivated, small team projects to help them produce excellent solutions in short iterations. Regards, Edmon Begoli Enterprise Architect Laboratory Corporation of America begolie@labcorp.com Deepak Surti: Hi guys, I am a young kid in the IT Industry. I have worked in software for 4 years delivering software [forgive the 90% documentation that accompanies it.]. AFter every delivery, it was probably me alone who was happy as every time I uncovered what not to do. But then thats not what one wants, one wants the customer to be happy and maximization of his revenue. And one day when i started my journey into ooad, i picked up UML distilled and thereon my journey started. Still one thought lingered in my mind, that for software the best measure is working software. Then why innumerable secondary activities forgetting the primary one? Continous reading of Martin Fowler's books and XP Explained finally turned the tide. I am still trying to gather knowledge about a few skills like Refactoring, Continous testing, integration as I am pretty sure I have to join an agile organization. But i want to be prepared when i join one so that the overhead of becoming an agile woker is minimized. Great work guys. You have one more agile supporter and soon you will have an agile worker working alongside. Markus Arikan: In my experience agile processes are the only ones that suceed over time. In contrast to the heavyweights agile processes deliver real business value in short time. Wm. Loyal Pridgen: (IndigeTech, Inc.) Our organization has always believed in open communication with the customer and within the team, consistent incremental deliveries and delivering working software. Agile approaches do work and work well. Sivaram: (www.hashprompt.com) I am a proud supporter of Agile Manifesto Regards, Sivaram Emanuele Cortese. Emmanuel: (Changepond Technologies) This is a needed methodology which will make all our lives easier Vladislav Dimitrov: (DAIS) The Truth is in balance Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke: (Cadence Design Systems) The Agile Maifesto is the key step in reconciling theory and practice, wishes and reality. I am fully support this effort. Rodney Ryan: (AppArc) Developing software should always be fun. When it is the highest quality is produced. I see the manifesto as creating an atmosphere high in enjoyment, humanity and having fun creating great software ! Tamara L. Cravit: (Taylored Software) I support the Agile Manifesto as an expression of the principles I value in software development for my clients and others to whom I lend my expertise. Vipul Shah: (eGenietech) I am a software developer with 4 years experience in the industry.It will be my endeavour to master and apply agile software development techniques to the software I develop in my search for a more efficient and interesting process for delivering working software. Peter Ward: (Pan Domain Ltd) All these years, I've been agile and didn't know it. Know I can be proud to be part of a growing community. Raffaele Di Natale: (http://www.di-natale.it) James G. Olson: (Carlson Companies) Rajeev Arora: (SystemSmiths) This is my commitment to the spirit - rather than formalities. Formalities are symptoms and not the root event! RA Larry Nichols: (Spirati ) Christopher Meisenzahl: (The Student Loan Corporation) Jonathan Crossland: (http://www.jonathancrossland.com) Co-Author of Pro Windows DNA, Beg and Pro VB.NET. Mohamed El Hanchi: (RMA) Enfin une méthode qui focalise sur le résultat plutôt que la façon s'y arriver. Melvin Dave P. Vivas: (Philippine Society of Software Engineering Professionals(PSSEP)) We have come to realize that things change in the software world. Processes should rapidly adapt with these changes. Agile methods give us alternatives. Agile methods are the 'Bazaar' of software development methodologies. Jochen Toppe: (CoreMedia AG) Jeff Cohen: (PROCESSexchange, Inc) Keep it simple, focus on the people and never forget the customer. Bil Kleb: (NASA) While surveying software industry practices to collaboratively develop software a few years ago (2000), I came to realization that I was actually a Software Developer! For 15 years I had been doing cowboy coding under the guise of "Computational Aerothermodynamicist". Since then I've co-authored some articles along the lines of "XP for Scientific Research". Elijah Rajendra: (Tata Consultancy Services (India)) kingshuk paul: (Igate Global Solution) I want to know all about Xtreme programing & agile methodologies beyond some static processes.kindly give the exposure Tim Lydon: (Selectica) Dan Finucane: (Brookdale Consulting Group LLC) Marian Caraiman. Steven Gordon: (Arizona State University Software Factory) Gerardo Ramírez: (e-Siglo) Palak Mehta: (MS CS student at NJIT) I am not experienced in the industry but I have developed 5 to 6 projects during my study and my training and I found that I am the person who doesnt want to follow some processes of software Engineering.Those processes takes time and sometimes they divert your attention from your work. I like to work and develop softwares on my own way. and my only goal will be develop the software how customer wants and deliever it on time. Not much Documentation, No Processes and No Plan Pennie Stringer: (Defense Finance and Acctg Svc) Guharaman: (Tavant Technologies) Practical guidelines and lotsa common sense methodologies. Agile methodologies do not replace common sense like the traditional software processes. Pearlie Tan: Cheers! Tom Kedor: (Aperto AG) Agility is what drives our success! Erik Boelen: (Gitek) Having experienced agile testing, I'm convinced about the possibilities within. Now, I'm trying to get other people in Belgium involved in the same way of thinking, especially from the testing side. Fred Klein. Francisco Guerrero Alba. Kjetil Strand: (Computas) Sean Pulins: (espressoCode Inc.) Uncommon common sense and a civilized way to do business. Laborde Jean-Marie: (Cabrilog & CNRS) Engaged since 1983 (rise of Macintosh) in Direct Manipulation, user centered SW (Cabri). Founder and CEO of new company Cabrilog (started 2000) Roy Varghese: The customer is always more agile, we HAVE to keep up or be left behind. Agile works. M. Stradtner. Yitzchak (Itzak) Ehrlich: (Dynamic Ventures) I have been following these principles for years before the name "Agile Software Development" existed. Following these principals has proved itself through many successful releases to market, consistently helping to reduce development time and create better products. Jens Meiert: (Interface Architect) n/a David Pazmino. Shubin Cai: It's intersting to see how and what Agile Process will work in software engineering. I am interested in Agile Software Developement. I will try to use it when possible. daryoush mehrtash: (mehrsoft) I find Agile Software development to have lot in common with eastern thinking such as TAO. With Design Patterns, and now Agile Methodology, I believe software development is moving in a healty direction. An organic evolution of ideas and process. As such, I am hopeful on the future direction of software. You can check out my Weblog for more views on the issues. http://www.freeroller.net/page/idealog Alok Mathur: (Novo Innoavations, Inc.) I have been promoting and practicing the virtues of Agile Development for at least a decade without attaching a formalised name to it. It just seemed like the sensible thing to do. I am delighted to find a group deicated to it. Gordon McCague. Chris Hogan: (HMW Computing) We've been using agile methods for many years, under a variety of names and using different methodologies, RAD, DSDM, Modular Prototyping, XP, etc. We support the idea of drawing together the strengths of the various agile approaches, without fossilizing them into a ponderous method designed to reign in the agile Practitioners. Pasquale Camastra: (http://www.pasqualecamastra.com) Terry Healey: (EDS) I was introduced to agility (XP) in 2000. I agree with Jim Highsmith that while process-driven teams can also be successful, once you work on a successful agile team you will never want to return to "the dark side". I work for a very process-driven company, but will continue to be a voice in the wilderness for a more sane, productive, and humane way of developing software. I am proud to endorse the agile manifesto without reservation or apology! Paul Zabelin: (3Com) Time will show real value of Agile Manifesto. I applied it's principles with a great success during last several years, but was unable to express them concisely. Thank you so much. David M. Pollack: (ADL Data Systems, Inc.) Our future is completely dependent on our ability to learn how to manage technology. And learning is a skill that depends on the cooperation and partnership with others. We need better methods of delivering quality software and solutions. Curtis R Cooley: (RADSoft) Nathen Grass: I'm a strong supporter of Agile Software Development and the concepts it's based on. Joydeep Tripathy. noelia. Mir S Akbar: this new and more effective then traditional method. i hope most of IT industry will follow this method Quentin Pain: (Accountz.com Ltd) Using AD, UML and OO principles to write a new class of business management software. Thanks to all those who helped me see the light (Fowler, Elliott and Martin in particular). Sergei Anikin: (Hansabank) Christopher Keaton: Deriving value is achieved through the combination of all four bullets of the agile manifesto. Bernhard Albler. Rosie Kitchiner: (Sun Microsystems) Scott Weeks. Jeremy Mayhew: (Lexel Software, LLC.) Dan Dugal: (SpyderHost.net) After working in various software development departments for several years, I don't know how many times I have heard the cliche "It's exactly what I asked for, but not at all what I want." when referring to a finished product. When my partner and I set out to build our company, we started with a genuine desire to help our small to mid sized clients through the deliberate use of internet technology. The agile family of software development methods is the answer to what I've been looking for for a long time. I am looking forward to hearing our clients proclaim "It's not at all what I asked for, but exactly what I want." Nik Kolev: (Drexel University) Michele Marchesi: (University of Cagliari) Tim Fox. Rob Westgeest: (Agidem) Many people claim know good ways to write good software, on time, within budget. Most of them are plain wrong. I think you've made some important points and i like the way you put it. Hĺkon T Sřnderland: (Antares Gruppen AS) While no silver bullet, I believe that agile software development is the way forward. It would be good to be able to enjoy programming and not writing meaningless document for once! Ola Mellgren: (ADI Limited) I'm very postive about these steps towards a manifesto you people are taking. Charwick: (http://charwick.com) Re-culturizing IT shops mired in heavyweight processes is hard work, but it's worth it. Enforcing agile values has a snowball effect that quickly becomes infectious. Brad Grant: (Maritz Global Technology Services) Serif Selcuk: (Softek Software) Jaap Zwart: (http://jzwart.nl) We do Agile with a smile.... Mahfuz Yousif: Go on keep the good work JOSE MARIA: I'm agreed with the point of view of agile methods, it was necessary a bit of variety in the sw process development, like you can select a method that better adapt to your organization. Thanks. Mike Kendall: (The DSW Group) Adaptation is a key for success, whether it is evolution or software. Agile embraces this core……plus I never did like “rules”. Strijevskiy V.S.. Martin Ellemann Olesen. Gale Stafford: Working with these principles makes all the difference in the world. I'm putting these up on my cube wall, to remember to keep all things in perspective. rock on, gale Peter Schrier: (TriCAT Agileon) Gurudev P Rao: (Netkraft) Extreme Programming Model when used with proper design and when implemented on modern platforms like .Net shall make life easy for both the customer and the developers.. Meir Cohen: (ITAssist) Kevin Orrman-Rossiter: (Australian Unity) Cohan Sujay Carlos: (Floranta - Once Upon A .Com) Working software, diagrams on wall, pencil sketches, just about anything NOW over building up potential on borrowed time for getting it right when we begin. Mark Hanna: (West Marine, Inc.) Bravo! I've been in business application development and project management for 15 years, and I've seldom been impressed with the available project management or software development treatments that computer professionals are held accountable to. They just don't make sense in the business world. Your manifesto struck a chord in me, such that I am printing it out to share with my development staff and executive management as well. I applaud your efforts! Mark Graybill: (EXB Solutions) I've studied human nature for a couple of decades, and the implications and affects human nature has on software engineering for many years. The Agile Manifesto is right-on when it comes to what should be valued on software engineering/development projects. Software is engineered/developed entirely in the conceptual realm of the human mind without the benefits of physical science that other engineering endeavors have. Therefore, the conceptual integrity of the software product throughout development is much more critical than any other engineering endeavor. The way to ensure conceptual integrity is focusing on people and human nature - just what Agile does. Electrical engineering has "gone Agile", only they didn't know it. They can design, develop, manufacture, and test electronic components before it even leaves the desk of the engineer. Therefore, why is so much of the industry moving toward bigger and heavier phased processes - as if they are making it more like other engineering endeavors, when those endeavors mostly have already abandoned the idea? www.Mark.Graybill.com Bill Lattimer: (Microsoft Corporation) I support the Agile Software Development Manifesto as expressed in the foundation principles of the Microsoft Solutions Framework. Javid Jamae: (Jamae Consulting) Good stuff.. Larry Bernstein: (Stevens Insitute of Technology) May the process fit the problem, may the development documents be read, may the software be easy to use and may the software neither crash nor hang. Aslak Hellesoy: (ThoughtWorks) Terrence Radl: I Support the Agile Manifesto! Lobster: (TMaxine) We go further We are developing software AND through that, deveveloping an understanding of the solution Keep the Mind Agile and the language FLUID Antonio Rosado: (WaveWeb) Dipl. Inform. Dennis Conze: (conze {informatik}) Java & C++ Freelancer, Germany Fiona Darroch: (University of Southern Queensland) Agile methodologies generally reflect my experiences of what constitutes effective system development methods. Andy McNutt: (Level(3) Communications) john graff: (Parlant Technology Inc.) Mridul Gogoi. Dennis L. Britton: (Quality Objectives) Inevitable and necessary. Lucio Fialho: (Solucionar Informatica & Sistemas) Pablo Daniel Cano: I fully support the Agile Manifesto. Let's enjoy programming! Senthilnathan: (Hughes Software Systems) Reddy Sanagala: (Sanagala & Associates, Inc.) Alex Feingold: (Progma, Inc.) Nancy Van Schooenderwoert: (XP Embedded Co.) For years I've been collecting software development methods from various projects, teams, companies that really work. I continued to use and refine them. When I discovered XP, I was already doing most of its practices! My engineering background had made me a 'true believer' in BDUF and specs. Goodbye to all that!! There is no going back. I co-founded XP Embedded Co. so I'd never have to go back to the bad old ways, and so I can show others how to do embedded development extreme. Years of working with software developers who sat all day like monks in their cells, never communicating until too late... Being marooned on Death March projects, searching for a way out... Working for managers who view software developers as galley slaves... ...all fueled the idea that people-centered AGILE software development is the answer. I went from Art major in high school to Computer Engineering major in college, and the common thread is creativity. Agile methods will reach far beyond software development - this is the way to do complex, creative work of all kinds. Jaana Wayrynen: (Department of Computer and Systems Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) George Isabella: (TNS Media Intellegence/CMR) I have been programming for a long time and have always instinctively worked using the principles outlined in the manifesto. There have been times when I found myself burdened with management that was maniacal in their devotion to documents. Use cases became functional specs after 9 levels of review which were appended with Visio flow charts and graphs. The functional specs had to go through an incredible 14 reviews and were then converted to technical specs. The technical specs were subjected to another 9 levels of review. Then the “work” was assigned to be coded. After 6 months not one line of code or screen was done (although we did have storyboards that were pretty pictures). It was utter insanity. It is good to know that I am not alone. Ken McClure: (Lumio) Careful, this could put Scott Adams out of business! Congratulations guys, for articulating what most of us have been thinking about for way too long. I'm starting to see a lot mnore job adverts daily which ask for experience in Agile methods, and I hope it's a sign that both managers and customers are seeing the benefit in this approach. Manoj Sankar: (NEST Technologies Inc) Based on my 12 years of software development and project management experince, to me Agile manifesto looks very pragmatic and promising. But in the case of a large product development with multiple geographically separated teams, how this can be applied is what I am experimenting now. ranjit sandhu: (sra) RIGHT ON!!! not that this stuff isn't obvious to intelligent people :) and has been around in academiea for donkey's years, but i would like to DOUBLE RATIFY this manifesto (and i'm using my real name on the web!!! sacre bleu!) Paul Garvey: In the relentless pursuit of software methodology perfection the agile processes is a means to that end. narasimharao vvr: (Gapvak) Want to know more Joseph Bergin: (Pace University) Steve Hall: (IntraPower/Hotspot Global) I've been using agile principles for several years now with good results. There is a need to strike a balance between what goes down on paper (e.g. design, process, scope) and what remains "agile" to handle the moving target of the delivered application. Using open source is great in this model because we can swap a software component out without needing to revamp a mountain of associated overheads. Good stuff! Umaro: 2 keep it short - IMHO agile is the future. thanks 4 this gift. Harshad Chandre: (Cognziant Technology SOlutions) Mads Sřgaard: (http://www.interaction-design.org) David Kempster. Scott Kravatz: (Kravatz, Inc.) Giuseppe Delfino: (IBM Italia spa - Sw Group IT Architect) I fully support the Agile Manifesto for three reasons: 1) because it recognizes and provides the way to battle the new challenges that software development should deal with, like a wider 'COTS' integration, provision and reuse of sw components, a shorter time to delivery 2) it promotes human relationships and collaborations 3) it is very very pragmatic Warren Burkholder: (NAIT) Manfred Lange: (csUnit) We spend so much time at work. Why shouldn't we have fun at work? Using an agile approach will help towards that goal! Pavel Timoshenko: (Sumix) Why nobody said this before? Sridhar P.V.: I am a Business Analyst who has been propagating Agile methods in my organization. Patrick Mc Neese: (RX Data Services, LLC) Sukumar Daniel: (Mascon Communication Technologies) As quality Manager and ISO Assessor, I am tired of being told that processes are of no value, for me the Agile Manifesto is a Way of Life leading to quality Fred Grossman: (Pace University) Harshal Baviskar: (Axis Software Pvt Ltd) Guangjun Ma: I think AGILE can liberate us programmers. Rolf Riedlinger: (IBM) I fully support the Agile manifesto This is what I'm searching for. In its 4 simple statements it gives guidance for software development with a strong focus on the reality. It does focus on the right keys by keeping in mind currrent state of the art processes. This is the future Michael Kelly. Sivakumar Shanmugam: I am very impressed. Andre Lockhart: (ObjectWare) Agile methods are the distilled essence of everything that is right and FUN about software development. The more time spent delivering value to our customers, the better! liwei: (CDTT,P.R.China) As a 10-year C programmer,I firmly believe that Agile is the way to future and is the only way. Sergey Kotov: (Enterprise Information Systems) Aseem Anand. Kasey Kim: (Samsung Electronics Co.) I have been a software engineer and software project manager for the last 17 years. Ever since I got to know this Agile Method in 2001, I became the enthusiastic supporter of it. I was tired of the heavy process of doing never-accurate planning and never-consulted documentation. I believe this is the real process that fits to the human nature and which can meet the need for this fast changing environment. Anders Stolpe: (Independent) I couldn't agree more with the thoughts behind agilemanifesto. It seems to me as if there are two ways to go at this point in time, one is the process-formalized way and the other is people-centric. Its going to be interesting to see which model will prevail, in lets say 5-10 years time. I know where my money is! Keep up the good work! /Anders Ian E. Savage, CSQE: (only as needed) As a 24-year veteran of software development and quality assurance, I've seen many approaches; met and learned from many significant contributors to the software industry; and consider myself a student - constantly learning. IMHO: The light practices hold considerable potential. I predict they will be the centerpiece in the continuing maturation of our industry over the coming 10-15 years. Thank you all for your bold, new ideas. I urge you to continue pushing the envelope. IES, CSQE Marcelo Costa de Oliveira: (TakeNET - CURUPIRA S/A) I Support the Agile Manifesto! But I also value processes and tools, comprehensive documentation, contract negotiation and following a plan. ;-) In fact, I think that we should equally value both "the items on the right and the items on the left". And my experience is showing that it is possible! Nauman Malik: (Softech Systems (Pvt) Ltd.) Full Support to agile manifesto. Roberto Aguiar Lima: (Roma Informática) Matthew Uhre. Nigel Runnels-Moss: (1337 Collective) 1337 fully endorses Agile Methods as the leading-edge meme in software development, and uses Agile Methods as the de facto standard for all its projects. Further: 1337 applies Dispersed Agile as one its main business processes and believes this to be the 'kissaki' or 'sharpest part of the edge' for Agile Development. chinmay kolachalam. Anto Jeromes: (DigitaThink Inc.,) I would like to add full support to the agile technology wherein the development of the software which is done stage by stage, is beneficial and advantageous in terms of testing.Also this methodology helps to reduce the software delivery time and the minimised number of bugs and it also offers a positive impact on ROI. Raja Sankar. Pallav: (ISakti Technologies Pvt Ltd) I agree agile methodology and follows this methodology in my project and found it to be more productive and easily managable. Akkala Maheswara Prasad: (Wipro Technologies) Abrachan Pudussery: (Procize) A totally different perspective to look at software development as a whole. A more natural way of developing software. Shivaji Chavan: (GE Consumer Products,Bangalore India) Ramana Polavarapu: (SAP Labs, LLC.) John Buccola: (Alliance Imaging, Inc.) Michael R. Brazee. Christopher Blunck: (http://meta-tools.sourceforge.net) Sangameshwaran K Iyer: (Financila Technologies India Ltd) Wesley Matlock. Colin Rand: (Cyrus Innovation) Michael Griswold: (Ingenix) I am a very firm believer in Agile- I have seen it work with my own team over the last 2 years Kent J. McDonald: (http://www.madsax.com) The more I read about Agile Software Development and live software development every day, the more the Manifesto makes sense. Hany Kattow: (Scania Part Logistics AB) Charles Scuilla: (Secure Elements, Inc.) Greg Clinton. Rob Sartin: (Omniscient Turtle) I've been applying Extreme Programming since 1999. Applying the core values of the Agile Manifesto yield a more productive and more pleasant work environment. I have found that working software makes customers much happier than a detailed plan and extensive documentation for a system that does not exist. David Romine. Craig Martin: (Freelance Software Architect) It's a simple framework of workable technology to help practitioners get the job done: better, faster, cheaper - the mantra of current-day Software Development. Matthew Heusser: (Priority Health) David Masover: The manifesto supports itself, too, at least in two respects: It works without having comprehensive documentation, and it is very simple. Ananth Balasundaram: This is great stuff. Kevin Dooley: (ASU Software Factory) The ASU Software Factory is a new entity providing professional software development support to ASU researchers. The Software Factory follows the agile manifesto as its operating philosophy, and conducts rigorous research on agile software engineering. Patrick Steyaert: (ExMeX) Steve Fulton: (Mattel Toys) The entire Agile Manifesto and all the Agile princiles apply to the work we perform every day. We are a highly mobile and agile workgroup dedicated to created the best possible web sites for Mattel branded toys. We did not even know there wasa nameforthe kind of work we do, until I found Larmann's Agile Abnd Iterative Development book. Now it is my bible. Benoit Godbout: (Amadeus International Inc.) In software development, artefacts (models plans, code etc.) should always be at service of the comprehension and not at the expense of those who produce them. To often individual are slave delivering artefact to the process and not the client, equilibrium is hard to attain. Agile Software Development Manifesto is the most significant initiative I have seen in this field, yet. Gunnar Eketrapp. Arun Bharadwaj: I work for a major IT MNC and have spent a few years in software engineering domain. Of late, I have been a bit weary of the 'heavy' processes that are rolled out as organization standards (my role requires me to do that) based on de-facto industry standard models whose ideas germinated about 25-30 years ago. The world has moved a great distance since then (although in many aspects it has been standing almost still, but that's another story altogether!) but our (software developers') methods and tools have not kept up with the changes. Mind you I am not deprecating them at all. They made a great deal of sense when they were conceived. They have served their purpose and today we need an approach which I find manifest in ideas on your site. I think the executable model (aka Agile MDA) is a great idea. This is my first time on this site. The white paper on Agile MDA on OMG site led me here. And I am glad it did that. Matt Wickham: (ProRules) We have incorporated the Agile Manifesto into projects over the last two years in the Business Process Management software field. The principles behind the manifesto were critical to the succesful implementation of many projects in this rapidly changing field. The challenge has been in providing structure demanded by the situation and in adapting principles necessary to the application and customer environment. The founders and leaders in the principles are to be thanked for the continuing evolution of these principles. Tom Marquis: (Geo911 Inc) Ray Massey: Glad to find a group of people supporting a development methodology which has worked for me for years but has traditionally gone against the grain. Ray Massey, GIS Analyst/Programmer, Brisbane, Australia. Lloyd Alan Fletcher: (Institute of Physics Publishing) Aniket R Bhatt: I support the Agile Manifesto Wim Codenie: (Belgium) Damon Carr: (Monetaire) We have developed a variant Agile method that has (we think) unique characteristics when compared to the other popular methods (which we still respect immensely). We are very strong believers in the Agile Manifesto. We wish 'Agile Software Engineering' practices were more a norm in our profession instead of the 'code and fix' environments that dominate today. The few companies like ours, that embrace the Agile Manifesto, use an Agile Method, and do proper Software Engineering (in an Agile way) are left to reap the tremendous rewards, while almost every other project fails (in terms of meeting budgets and timeframes – see the Standish Group’s studies). I know these ideas work in practice as we were just named one of the top three software firms in Europe in our 'space' (see: http://www.monetaire.com/about/pr9222003.asp). We did this against competitors that were usually better funded, with larger development teams. We did what many said was impossible. They were seeped in a tradition of bloated waterfall processes and project failures. We did the impossible by being Agile, having great people, and enjoying our weekends. Perhaps the days of the ‘cowboy’ programmer will never end. I can certainly see its place for a single person and an idea. However, for global, multi-million dollar systems, companies today rarely succeed and when they do it is far too often by the Herculean efforts of a few talented ‘cowboys’ who almost kill themselves in the process of 100 hour weeks (and destroyed relationships). How is our Agile process unique? Email me and I will be happy to share what we have developed (dcarr@monetaire.com). Regards, Damon Carr, CTO Monetaire www.monetaire.com Rahul Chitale: (Microsoft) Agile metholodogies represent the continuing evolution and finally a credible way to 'do' software after getting over the shock that there's more to software development than simply engineering it. Viktor H. Levi: (BoyutSis Ltd. Sti.) David Lillie: (formerly of Rockwell Software) I am a Development Manager who has used Agile Development techniques in a M$ .Net environment for the past 2 years. Use of open source technology - namely NAnt, Draco, NUnit, and NDoc made this a practical thing to do. Results proved the advantage of Agile compared to the Waterfall model. Adail Muniz Retamal: (Heptagon Tecnologia da Informaçăo Ltda) Brazil is Agile! Yousuf Ahmed: The stress on the human factor is what makes this great. I would prefer 'Teams' over 'Individuals' though. James Parker: (BestWebTechs.Net) I had been using this method by nature for years. It came natrualy after being Internet Information Systems Admin and liaison between IS and Dev groups at the worlds largest software reseller. After deploying my fifth distributed application in two years I was told that I should start “creating a thorough documentation/design/requirements agreement with the customer before any code”. This failed repeatedly to produce by deadline and satisfied nothing. I am returning to my former method patterns of build, use, update, test, document, collect. This life cycle involves the customer at all stages, and requires them to only decide on my fee before I start. It is a patern that fits the Manifesto and has Made several industry leaders good, although maybe not so well documented, applications that are used by thousands of clients daily. The other method has produced vapor ware and a windows service that may never be used by the customer even though it meets every requirement listed and re-listed, and has all the pre-documented business entities and rules. This experiance, along with Abstract State Machines have helped me find a new vision. "Development has not started until customer uses the prototype we built together." Terje Bjřrgum: (Bekk Consulting AS) Prescila Amalraj: (IEEE) I stumbled on this site while reading an online book at the Computer Society web site... I am glad I did. Tom Geyzen: (de dienstenfabriek) What we do in our company stretches beyond the development of software (and I mean this in the most positive way) but the agile manifesto still applies and is a great help to the inner working of our company Keep up the good work guys, this is definitely the way to go ! Tom Peter van der Voorn: I would like to write it in blazing letters across the sky - "The customer value is in the software!". Having been personally involved in IT projects/programmes that generated volumous amounts of documentation with little software to show for it I fully endorse the values of the Agile Alliance Peter van der Voorn Software Requirements Analyst Chris Schultz. Simon Baker: (think-box) Being agile injects the fun back into software development and, in my experience, is the most effective way of delivering the right software at the right time. Giuliano Morais: (Smarnet Brasil) This is not only "on more path", this is the correct path. Luis Camara Manoel: (Novell, Inc.) I support this manifesto for eliminating processes where processes were not needed, taking communication where doors had typically been closed, taking innovative ideas where they can flourish, taking change where it can improve upon our work. Sergey Shafran. Paul Scofield: For years I have been using the term "Agile" when describing my systems requirements. It's only now that I find others support this idea! Agility is THE pre-requisite of not just software development, but of all effective business systems. William Craun: (Financialware, Inc.) Brian Kiser: (Kentucky State Government) I'd like to see Agile implementated where I work. It seems that everyone here, even those who profess to dislike heavyweight methodologies, seem to push more and more for "process" and documentation over the core things that really matter, like producing good software. It's very discouraging to someone who's been out in the field producing good software for many years. Don Fleck: (Getronics) Jeng Lamug. Rafael Vacas: (Sinergia Consulting, A Coruńa, Spain) Thank you Agile Manifesto. Thank you for putting down in words the truth about software development. Sasa Milicevic-Sejfic. Eric Kramer: (Wendy's International) Aaron Lewis: (Axiom Shift, LLC) With our community hosting software, which has morphed over time based upon customer requirements, the people we answer to and communicate with during development are our clients. We've been following the Agile method for years, consulting with our clients from the moment development starts to the day code is pushed. The result of following the Agile principles in every aspect of our business has resulted in satisfied customers and better software. Barry Forrest: It's about time that a better way of doing things was established. I'm not anti-documentation, but it should develop alongside the key deliverables, with input from both the technical and user communities. More customer collaboration over requirements and contracts is essential, we provide solutions to address customer needs, the customer needs to participate all through the development and delivery process. However, resistance from legal, contractual and purchasing departments will need to be overcome before we can move forward, and that will only happen with a move away from the confrontational management styles that have developed over the past decade. Kaleem Mohammed: Agile Manifesto captures the vital issues of software development in a much better way than any other software process.Certainly uncovers better ways of developing software. Niclas Lindberg: (Nillsoft) Mike Stockdale: (Syterra Software Inc.) Anand. Edward Daniel: (SalePlane Ltd.) I have never been more enthusiastic about the art of software design and engineering as now having benefitted greatly from the works of many leading thinkers represented here who share their knowledge for the benefit of others. Well done and thank you. Ed Iain Stubbs: (Synoecy) Cyrinus I Joseph: (Cyrox Networks Inc.) Information Security Management and Testing Timothy Cook: (Open Paradigms,LLC) Results are what matters most. David Warth: Agile Methods represent, today, the most realistic approach to Software Project Delivery available. As Director of a software delivery organization, I embraced Kent Beck’s work when it appeared in 1999, leading my group through many successful projects. As a Program and Project manager, I have led several large projects, applying Agile to both software engineering and project management – successfully combined with the CMM - and have been told by many of the project participants that these were the most enjoyable and best run projects they have ever participated in. Raj Sundar: (Pronto Networks) Jose Sandoval: (Sandoval Software Solutions Inc.) The better way to develop business applications is to keep the client's needs in mind. A client's need is a business objective to be achieved via technology. As Software Engineers our aim is to solve the business need and to add maximum value (Monetary, ussage of resources, etc) to the client while implementing such solution. Agile technologies strives to accomplish this goal. Larry Cai: Agile manifesto really gives me a lot of good ideas and points me the right way for the further improvement of my work. Great done, all the big guys. Ed Laczynski: (LTech Consulting LLC) We have used Agile methods with great success in our migration and new development work. Wayne Allen: (Portland Consultants Guild) Continuing to advance the state of the art in agile approaches. Jason Simpson: (Classroom Connect) So obvious once you see it in action. I cannot imagine developing software any other way. Jeffin Jacob Mathew. Ted Calhoon: (City of Seattle) Riku Pirttijävi. Sunil Kanojia: (Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.) We need to come out of analysis-paralysis syndron of "big" organisations and start working like 'entrepreneurs delivering values' through agile approach to both internal and external customers - I do believe that there must be a "customer-supplier" relationship with all the humans in this agile supply chain so as to have accountability and responsiveness. Sincerely Sunil Kanojia 610-213-0085 Cell Josu Elorduy: (J.e Consulting) Kim Fillo: (IdentityMine, Inc) Robert G Smothers: (HQ SSG/ILRC) HURA! Jean-Paul Gélis: (Appligenics) We always knew it was the right way to do it. Why were we lead to do it otherwise then ? Two questions then : - What about Agile CASE tools ? - What about Agile implementations ? Jerry Wey: (Valtech ) Deva Mangal: (Valtech) One of the most important ideas I stress to my clients is that our goal is to build working software. Agile processes lets us explore different ways to achieve this goal without sacrificing the quality of our software. Valerio Schiavoni: (Valerio Homepage) Agile developping is a milestone. Hope these criteria will be widespreaded all over the software world. Valerio Schiavoni Member of LugRoma3 - University of Rome3 www.lugroma3.org Italy David Moralita: (http://david.heyey.com) I just found this site, and I support the agile manifesto! Kar : (Lockhurst Ltd.) Though I never deny the importance of documented processes and importance of studying the standard litrature - I believe that purpose of all that is having more structured common sense. Following a plan is important. Responding to change by changing the plan and again following the plan. Balaji Muthuvarathan. Jason Stracner: (http://lr-tc.com) eXtreme Programming is a wonderful concept. I also like a lot of the other Agile methods. The whole Agile ideal seems to work wonderfully. David Hooker. Robert Hurlbut: (Hurlbut Consulting) I have been using Agile methods for years, and I am glad to sign the Agile Manifesto. André Luiz Montenegro de Castro. Bill Mattox. J. Mark Srebro: (RIT student) Plans and contracts have certain appeal to them but the value of software will always be in its flexibility. Processes and procedures do not lend themselves to shifting needs and technologies. Flexibility is Power Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri: (RMIT university) I was building some systems in the way agile works. I didn't follow any of agile methods, but I was following some principles listed in this manifesto. It is great and needs more practice and research. Kyle Morse: (RIT) Taking back software development from software engineers one signature at a time. Low overhead, less paperwork, quality products in less time and at smaller cost. How can you lose? Vivian van Zyl: (Penley Inc.) A good team of 2 is better than a department caught in red tape and bad communication. And YES, the only measure for performance is a working product! NOT a looks good on paper product. Shiryl L. Dean: (Organization: would like to say, but better that I don't.) Have I participated in failed projects? Yes. Have I felt there is something better? Yes. Do I think Agile development may be that something? Yes. Is my organization embracing Agile development? NO! Do I believe they should? Resounding YES! Marco Pancotti: (mcons.net) Dave Borgeest. Eric Malm. Baboo Kureemun: (EVault, Inc.) Thought-workers of today will have to embrace a malleable sphere with day-to-day practices that adjust to the pitiless business realities. The process of software creation demands talent. Without the agile values, talent will remain talent, and will never get converted into working software! Christian Romney: (http://www.xml-blog.com) Dylan Thorne: Working quickly and producing beta releases keeps the customer in contact with the development process without cumbersome meetings/demos, and reduces dependency on resources: either a module is completed or it hasn't been started, so there are no pieces for new people to pick up. Suresh.A: (Azikewe Systems) Martin Fuzzey: (Parkeon (ex Schlumberger)) At last some good common sense! Unfortunately selling this to some manager types is a bit of a struggle but worth the effort... Matt Younce: (The Cincinnati Insurance Companies) Long time developer architect, coming to grips with the simple issues of teams of people not working together as well as they can. When collaboration degenerates into finger pointing and defensiveness, the PMs cling even tighter to their plans, handicapping response to change. We are seeking the next generation of team building activities that produce results in development team transformation and performance. Christopher Corry: (TransAccurate LLC) Agile methods allow software developers to keep their focus on business requirements and deliver needed software solutions. This allows IT Management to align its developers with IT Goals, and distinguish valuable software professionals from those that offer little or no lasting value. Crispen Scott: As a long suffering software development consultant and contributing author, I hope to find a level of compromise within the Agile world. I have 'existed' under various regimes of management & methods and worked with emperical and homespun toolsets during my 30+ career and have searched for a means to co-existance with the 'heavyweight' and 'lightweight' worlds. James Pun: (PrintSoft Development Pty Ltd) I have just started hearing about the agile manifesto. Top effort for coming out with new ways of "skinning a cat" Paul Epps: (EppsNet) Mike Masino: (UW Extension) Chris Ball: UK developer/consultant. Ian Duffy: (ID Computing Limited) At last, a sensible software development manifesto. I have been an Agile developer for years without knowing the name for it! Bring on the day when I can say : "I just get on with it, check progress regularly with the customer, and document it at the end" as a respectable answer to : "So what software development methodology do you use ?". Every customer is different and I haven't met one yet that really knew what they wanted until it had been developed! Upendra Kumar Singh: Really good process for SDLC. Noel Azucena: (AICOM Solutions) Software Development is primarily: 1. Creativity; 2. Invention; 3. Passion. The principles of Agile Software seek to reinforce these discipline rather than curtail it with business legalise documents. Matthew J Reider: (SAIC) After working as a programmer in government IT, I realized there had to be a better way. After climbing my way to middle management, I am now working on a master's, with agile programming effectiveness as my research thesis. Now if we can only convince the OTHER middle managers. Salvador Nachamoulis: (Paradigm Software S.A.) Ryan Dorrell: (AgileThought) David L Kinney. Ryan Dorrell: (AgileThought) Andrew Matlock: (Financialware, Inc.) Gerald F. Conklin: (Harvest Time Software Productivity Improvement) Working together, we do what I cannot do alone. Alessandro Ruggeri: (Softcare Srl) Abi Jabar. Jack Varney: (Aftermath) Ken Maier: (JK August Communications, Inc.) Darren S. Ellis. Christian Noack: (agile methoden) Working for several years with agile methods (esp. Extreme Programming)and certainly will go on! Rainer Voemel: (Agilent Technologies) I am a CRM-Projectmanager that has written a lot of small tool to administer the database a check process compliance. I have used Excel VBA and my IT department always tells me that this can not work, although my users in the business love it. I have now started a new project with a consultant where we have only 1 page of documentation, which describes the goal and few details. When we program we sit at one desk and work together on one computer. That way we could program an application in 3 days (testing still to be done) where other suppliers wanted to do a workshop for one week to write up the definitions, then make a feasibility study to determine the cost for the project. I am very happy to have found people that think the same way. Jesus Zavala Ruiz: (UAM-Iztapalapa, Mexico) In searching for a software factory model, I have found Agile as an organization model for create knowledge. Then, software is a partial model for a organization, a partial model for desision making and a partial knowledge model, I think. So, Agile concepts are the last hope for mitigate the software crisis. Maybe it may would being! John A Thomson: (Roundtrip Solutions Limited) All through my academic and work life I've been searching for the truth .... Eureka! I've found Agile and the world seems a much simpler place to develop software and other products. soula. Brian Schultze. Sean Chen: I like the Agile Software Development,for it's the simplest and the effective method I have seen. Tolga Erdogan: (Cybersoft) Jim Canright: (Canright Systems) 25 years of experience convinces me of the wisdom of these principles, approaches and methodologies. Pedro Madrid: Do it, and do it now. Peter Bals: (http://www.gluetech.com) Stefan Höhn: I personally believe that agile development establishes a more pragmatic and efficient approach to designing and developing software. If more people thought alike, then there would be enjoyment as well as results. Janet Tokerud: (Tokerud Consulting Group) The MAIN reason I use FileMaker as a database development tool is the agility that it affords me. In the turbulent times we live in, especially, we need to be light on our feet. Also, I think we've discovered that people don't know in advance what they need so they need to experience software early and often in its very roughest and simplest forms so they have something to work with rather than just talk about theoretically. I work collaboratively with small businesses mostly and sometimes *independent from IT* corporate workgroups. They rarely want to spend their money on documentation. I put a very simple *help* file and help index into the database itself which provides a place to record notes on anything and specify which database tables that note pertains to. I write a few things as questions come up and show my client what I'm doing. I then encourage them to do most of their own documentation ongoingly. Benoît H. Dicaire: (INFRAX inc.) Tor Kleiberg. shaleen : (IBIS technologies) first thing first I Support the Agile Manifesto! well i have read and applied a few agile methods and now i am bound to support them regards shaleen Keith Harrison-Broninski: (Role Modellers Ltd) My whole working life has been underpinned by an interest in tools and techniques to facilitate and support human collaboration - the invisible, untidy, innovative work that in the end is responsible for delivering a project, a product, a business, ... until all software is written by machines, we need agile methods. And probably even then. Andrew Forward: (http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/gradtheses/aforward/) I worry that people out to sabotoge the efforts of being agile are actually those that profess to practice it. It took far too long for me to actually sign up. Pär Hammarström: (IFS AB) Partha Monge. Luie Matthee: (IBM) Chris Kelly: (Enigmatec Corporation) Alistair Rees: (University of Durham) Barry Huffman: (Logus Solutions) * processes and tools * documentation * contract negotiation * following a plan The above ARE important to software development, but they do not determine the success of a project. And when they are depended on over the Agile Manifesto values, they often LEAD to project failures. Like most developers I have worked on projects that have been considered a success because the documentation met the standard and the Plan was followed even when the clients were dissatisfied because we couldn't respond to changing needs. My fear is that we start depending on certain Agile processes rather than the Agile values. Success is not determined by us. We must let our clients determine whether a project has succeeded or failed. We need the humility to realize that all our expertise is only used to come up with a solution to THEIR problem. However, it is my guess is that I’m preaching to the converted. Jayanti Patel: (DSI.com) I really like the broad concept of software development proposed by agile group and I hope these concept will be world wide excepted in the year's to come Michael Stuart: (Microsoft) Pierre-Yves Gibello: (ExperLog) Agile processes exist for decades, but it's so hard to make people accept them... Thanks for helping pull them to daylight, and good luck. Michael Paulenko: (TANNIN Technology Ltd) Often the best directions one can get are a detailed picture. A development approach must be agile to embrace and realize the vision of that picture. A team that is nurtured to be jointly creative, adaptive and adoptive will truly realize the ultimate solution. This approach goes beyond dealing with the learning curve, and allows for the value that comes from nurturing the creativity curve. Thomas Strandenćs: (Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine) SRIKANTH GORTHI: (CMM NETWORKS PVT LTD) YES WE SUPPORT. Moshe Dayan: (Ariba Technologies India Pvt Ltd) Daniel Raskin. Dotan Dvir: I value sound principles and an open mind over rigid process definitions Jacob Wei. Kevin Rutherford: (Rutherford Software) Parijat Bhattacharjee. Max Hughes: I need to learn more but never had the time. Now maybe.... Geoff Pizii: (Allegis Group) Juan Pablo Olguin: (Indra SI) I commit to spread the agile principles with all my effort, to respect and make others respect the manifesto. Guilherme Lacerda: (APOENA Software Livre) TARIQ ABDUL MAJID: (THE HOUSE OF QUALITY) I have been associated with ISO 9000 certification of software development companies for past 7 years, but now I feel that despite the benefits of documentation it is the indiduals (man behind the machine) who matter most. Vijay: Maybe there is a Silver Bullet afterall and It is Agile Methodology.... Hurrah Gastón Nusimovich. Gerardo Ramon Espino: (Developers & Computers Associates) Thnx for giving us a better way to develop software. Luis Grullon: In principle I'm in full agreement with the agile manifesto.. ramesh aruanchalam: (RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED) Jens Saxe: (Triton Funding Group) Great initiative. Kuei-yang Lo: (ICSC) For a long time, we've searched for a better principle to manage project and product of software. Agile Methodology is not a evolutionary one, but a revolutionary one. David Schroeter. Henry Liang: (Innovapost) It's a excellent approach. You guys are doing a great thing Robert Lazo: (The Beguine Group) Andrew Higginbottom: agile != fragile John Scumniotales: (http://www.scumniotales.com) I have been using Agile approaches since the early 90's when I developed Scrum with Jeff Sutherland and Jeff McKenna. When its principals are adhered to and its values embraced, I believe there is no better way to build software! Scott Seo: My own development principals exactly match what's stated in Agile Manifesto. I am so glad to realize there is such a movement among developers to become more practical and realistic about software development. I fully accede to Agile Manifesto. Sai Krupa Sagar: (Cognizant) I believe Agile methodologies are needed to build quality software in this age of changing customer requriements and multiple dependencies by using optimal contribution of people and processes. Nancy Polasek: (Decide Consulting) I agree! Garry L. Booker: (Project Frontier, LLC) Superb concept, excellent execution. This community has opened up a new dimension in project management, not just software development, because it (finally) recognizes the value of discovery-driven Knowledge Work. I believe history will record that this movement is on the forefront of a momentus transition from Industrial Age thinking to Knowledge Age thinking. Good work! James Radvan: (CodeRonin Ltd) A fine set of ideals to aspire to every day. Alan Freedman: (MindWave) I support the sane and realistic principles of Agile Development. Rich Tensmeyer: (EDS) Allan Murota: (Modelsoft Consulting Corp) The Manifesto and Principles are very pragmatic. Stephanie R Weber: (Communications Data Services) Mark Glesener: (Time Warner Telecom) I've been preaching, practicing, and succeeding with agile methodologies as an architect and development manager at three companies over the past five years. I'm now working to bring my fourth company on board. As a student and practitioner of development methodologies and project management over a 20 year career, this is by far the most significant development in the IT field that I've seen. Finally, we are starting to mature as an industry. Craig Perrin: (CollabNet) Ongoing collaboration on development between the people who use software and the people who make software should know no geographic or organizational boundary other than that agreed to by the participants! Niels Kildeskov. Marcelo Hernan Schenone: (AgEnD) I really agree with all the values of the Agile Manifesto and I think they will help our discipline mature. Ravi Chamarthy: (Cellexchange, India) In these years of countinous changes in Customer requirements, Agile methodologies are must needed to build a quality software on-time. Dan Kelly. Najeeb Moosavi. giuseppe: (tecnologie.net) Cheryl Magnuson. Marcos Luna: it is very interesting that there are more open and better ideas to develope good software. Noel I Kelly: (CLS Carrock LIC) Agile: for building systems in order of importance. Start with the must have functions and adding the extra function as volume and value demand. david godec: Well I and most of the developers I've been in contact with have always worked that way so I don't regard this as being "Agile" (I think all this is totally out of proportions unless there is some degree of humour in it...). From my point of view, too many developers tend to apply the "stuck in the mud" software development method, but even if you can avoid walking in the mud, is it enough to call you an "agile" person ?... John Howes: (Inetium) Karim Khelifi: (S2K Technologies) paul costin: (UBS) mikeyu: (neusoft) I like agile software and want to study it. Anthony Carnevale: (Sentinel Benefits Group, Inc.) John Recktenwald: (State of Alaska) Every time I call up the Agile Manifesto and read it I become more convinced of it's simple brilliance. Justin Tifang: (Lisol Ltd) This is absolutely great !! For several years, we've been developing software in accordance with the principals so succintly expressed here, but we thought we were alone. How exciting to see that there are numerous others like ourselves. This has got to be the way forward !! Justin Tifang, IT Director, Lisol Ltd Greg Knowd: (3M Company) Brian Marshall: (PlayTank, Inc.) The Agile Manifesto is the closest statement I have yet seen to the way I have always worked. I have seen the toll that traditional methods can take on individuals. This can only be detrimental, in the long run, to the products being developed. I believe in Sustainable Development, and believe that the Agile Manifesto supports this as well. Ultimately, no matter how important your software is, people are more important. Larry Bernstein: (Stevens Insitute of Technology) Right on. Process can never correct for poor uniformed management. Emmanuel Gonnet: (KING Products and Solutions Inc.) Andreas Schliep: (WEB.DE AG) I appreciate the deeply humanistic approach of agile software development. It will turn obedience to understanding and pressure to power. Bruce Cropley: Agile methodologies just make so much sense in the real world. As soon as I heard a description of the XP practices, I knew I had to find out more. I'm glad I did, as agile has changed my everyday working life for the better. Thanks! Leslie Crandall. Peter Rose: (Red Kite Business Systems) We have been practicing these principles for many years and are slowly bringing our customers around to the idea that solutions not contracts improve our customers business processes. Murray White: (ThoughtWorks, Inc.) I first signed this two years ago. Since then, I joined the best Agile company in the world, and I now work with over 500 people worldwide who believe fundamentally in the values of this Manifesto. Clearly, there is business benefit to these values, as our business is *very* successful ;-) Agile is to process model as OO is to programming model -> in 5 years, almost everyone will be Agile... Nicholas Toumpelis: (http://www.toumpelis.me.uk) Vladimir Efanov: (Troika Dialog) I voting for The Agile Manifesto! Herb Isenberg: I am interested in Best Agile Practices relative to the QA/Testing process (both manual and automated_ I am a QA/Testing Manager Thanks, -Herb Teresa Cannon: (International Paper) I totally support this effort! Bas Bossink: (Bergson) These values become more and more deeply installed in my value system each day of experience I gain in the field of Software Engineering. Embracing change is in my opinion the only way to be successful in an ever changing world. Louis Franco: (http://www.greenwave-solutions.com) Julien Dubois: (http://www.julien-dubois.com) Jennifer Trotts: (http://www.jtrotts.com) It is great to see the way I develop formalized so well and see other people appreciating it. I love customer collaboration and the feeling of achieving things as a team instead of the battlefield approach of hard requirements docs and 6 week change requests. Krishna Prasad Yerramilli: I read Kent Beck's articles when I was attempting to bring reality into the projects I was managing. The unfortunate fact is that customers are trained to expect nothing better. If the Agile Manifesto can help bring change, I would support it. Bill Ingersoll: (The Casey Group) I am a Director of Software Development and have worked with many various developing and management methodolgies. I have been employing Agile Methods now on a consistent basis for a few years and have achieved great sucess in delivering projects to clients. On a few recent occasions I had to employ "traditional heavy" methodologies for a particuilar client and actually had more difficulty and problems in bringing the projects in. Hopefully the industry will pay more attention to the Agile Model and embrace the benefits it brings. Having actual experience, I most certainly have become a dedicated student! gisela strauss: (http://agile_webdesign.blogspot.com/) As a creative knowledge worker I believe that Agile programming allows me to apply logical processes, while remaining within the creative flow. This will solve the inherent problem webdesign was facing from its onset : A missing framework for managing the interdependent nature of creative and logical development processes. Agile methods render webdesign and development methods more effective. And these methods in turn can be streamlined with all-over Agile programming processes. Best regards, Gisela Strauss, Munich gs@sepiaport.com Badri N Srinivasan: I support the agile alliance as I feel the future will belong to the agile methodologies. In a world of constant change, being agile helps one to stay agile. Junrong Shen: (Peking University) I love it, The Agile Software Development:) Jason Mule: Obviously a better way to do it Anand Deshpande: (XNet Inc.) Isaac K. Acquah: Today's ever-changing industry dynamics do call for life cycle flexibility to amend business requirments later down the development path - when knowledge and understanding of both developers and clients would have significantly improved in the solution domain. The Agile method's ability to take up such late but value-add changes provides a real winner in the race for competitive advantage. What a realistic approach to today's development work! Prashant Shetty: (Patni Computer Systems) Eliot Sykes: I'm proud to be an Agileist :) Timothy Emiola. Shriram Shivakumar. Sastry Ramachandrula: (Indian Institute of Science) Software Renaissance in making... Jon Lebkowsky: (Polycot Consulting, L.L.C.) Tony Coretto: (PNT Marketing Services, Inc.) Agile software development is something my company has stressed, unknowingly, for years now; we have always believed in (1) the primacy of the user, (2) working directly with the user and showing results fast, (3) accepting change (has anyone ever really worked on a software development project where all requirements were known up front and no changes were made as the project evolved?), (4) allowing project, user, and people needs to determine team structure for best effect. We have always felt we were swimming upstream especially if we interfaced with large systems development organizations at client companies, who mostly adhere strictly to "analysis/requirements/development/systems test/user test/implementation" lifecycle planning, and it is refreshing and inspiring to see the agile manifesto organized as a viable and preferable alternative for better results. Vladimir Kiryushkin: (Institute of Buisness Carrier) I support the Agile Manifesto, because It support the better knowing of the constantly changing World. Cristaldi Antonio Massimo: (http://www.cristaldi-antonio-massimo.com) In my exprience, the costs've been supposed fewer using a formalized method than thinking simple. But, no cost in development increase wether you use a method, expecially simple. I'd like to promote Agile Alliance as a method to think first, and to do then. Yae Chan: (tdg) Ovsei Volberg: (University of Michigan) Yaron Berlinsky. Senthil: (ESolutions Ltd) Pavel Maule: (IT systems a.s.) Delon Newman: (http://iktome.hypermart.net) Will Whitfill: (Motorola) We have successfully implemented an Agile Development project. I look forward to implementing this methodology in other software projects within Motorola. -WW Mykola Paliyenko: You are 100% right. Lim Fung Peng: (pengster.com) I am an avid believer that developers are not only robots carrying out instructions in the assembly line of development processes. I see developers as ninjas, efficient at assasinating bugs and fixing problems where no by-the-book contract can do the job. A good developer is like a nimble ninja, able to respond to the situation, collaborate with other ninja-developers to efficiently and reliably produce software that just works. Delivering working software to customer satisfaction and doing what it takes to deliver on time has always been my goal and the goal I teach my team members. I feel agile development to be the answer to my "philosophy on development" and the calling of all ninja-developers. Jean-Michel Le Roux: (http://www.jlcreateur.com) Working together for a common task is the most powerful tool. Warren Baker: (Net4Ed) I've been doing this for a long time. I support it as the only reasonable way to develop. Marv Miller: (Bridge Consulting) Having been born 3 days before Pearl Harbor and working with computers since 1959...including a 20 year stint with IBM, I've been skirting the edges of "corporate civility" (not) for a long time. I avoid working for most corporations wherein I cannot wear rubber gloves during my work day at the "factory" (to avoid contracting "the dis-ease"). In other words, as a C# .NET developer with weird metaphysical interests, I mostly starve. I LOVE working on projects, with and without others. I usually leave as soon as a big ego shows up who wants to control things because...well...they're in charge. My creativity flounders in such an environment. Thanks for BE-ing HERE-n-NOW...I'm happy I discovered you this day. (Thanks to Sedgewick@Nata1.com , who, I suspicion, is an agile Agiler.) Thomas Remaley: (TRAI) Agile techniques bridge the gap between customesr and developers, ensuring that the delivered systems do what the customer's need and can be readily adapted to the changing requirements of today's business environment. Applicable to large or small systems, I've successfully applied agile techniques to systems developments in a variety of domains. David Angelow. Matthew Margolis. Greg Urquhart: (Agilent Technologies) Luis Gonzalez: (N/A) WOW, Because of it's humane and individual-talent-oriented nature, "Da' Manifesto" is a revolution in today's cold software production environment! Transparen Corporation: (Surrey Consultants) With operations in Surrey, British Columbia (Between Vancouver, BC and Seattle, Washington), our firm provides ways to improve business processes using technology. In our interactions with clients, one of the most valuable benefits we bring is quick response time and timely deployment of working software. The Agile Manifesto recognises priorities that our experience has proven true. Anthony Ventura: (Ventura Web Design) Hello, I just became aware of the Agile Manifesto through a research assignment for Capella University. I am working towards my Master's degree in System Design and Programming. I have always felt that the customer should be integrated throughout the system development life cycle, however, after readying the Agile Manifesto, it seems that your approach goes to great lengths to insure that the customer is THE focal point of software development. Thank you, Anthony Ventura Pieter Jansen van Vuuren: (Peter's Software House) Kenneth R. Ward: (KRW Inc) I fully support the Agile Manifesto. My Goal is : " To utilize the Agile methodology known as Scrum, to bring in software development projects on time and on budget giving the customer the satisfaction in getting useable software in a timely manner." John E. DeLascurain. Steve Mobley: (http://www.stevemobley.com) Ever Meza: Student Glenn Cook: (The Object Factory) Jeppe Rřrbćk: (ITjek) Antônio Joăo Schwartz Soares: (Accenture do Brasil) I`am so glad to see that Agile methodologies are the answer to build quality software in this age of changing customer requirements, and, I appreciate the deeply humanistic approach of agile software development. I want to study it. Carlos Beltrán Vázquez. Yusuf-Rasheed Reed: Where have I been? I can't believe I hadn't heard of this sooner. Vinod Varma: (Astra Infotech Private Limited) Software development is too early to be adopted as an engineering discipline though attempts in that direction is laudable. In the midst of such a drive, it is important to bring in a realization that craftmanship and people are central to the whole game and would continue to be so for long and that software is the primary deliverable and everything else is supportive, and that never to forget the customer Marcos Lazar. satish kamat: (Third Planet group) In my 20 years of seeing software development and enterprise applications I firmly believe that successful software evolves gradually rather than out of a big bang masterplan Jonathan Harley. Andrew Rothbart. Kevin Vinsen. Marek Kowalczyk: (adastra -- Project Management Training & Consulting) Common sense is not so common. Satish Santhanam: (www.tcs.com) Chuck Davison: (Solutions, Inc. USA) The Agile Manifesto is the answer to the client's, customer's, user's, and developer's prayers. Diego. Prabhakar Kundurthy: (Altosys Software Tech Ltd) We commit ourselves to the agile manifesto and strongly propogate these menthods to our software development community. The case in point is that one large automotive firm planned its software application in the year 2000 and 3 well know firms went through the development and failed miserably since they have the faintest idea about iterative and interactive developemnt. We have taken up this project and today the client is convinced after 4 years ! that this method is the only way for any software or project implementation. All support and god speed. Marius Ropotică: (The Red Point) John Dougherty: (CIT) Jaap Noordzij: (Netspeet beheer) I have been in charge on development projects for more than 25 years as a project manager. During that time I used most of the traditional development methods and project management methods. I have come to see that we, since we now live in a postmodern area, are no longer relying on the "big stories". Our world had become increasingly complex and thus we revert to the "little stories": Little methods, merely practices, that have shown to work in practice in the real world. We rely more and more on human relationships and practical results. In my recent projects I have applied the principles of the manifesto in practice and I fully agree with the stated values. Scott Willson. Ab Helderman: (Pheidis Consultants) Alfredo. Pedro Costa. Jason Tryon: (ComFrame / SAIC) For years I considered myself a prophet in the wilderness, preaching exactly the things that the Agile Manifesto proclaims. Since I first encountered Agile Development I have continued to preach it as the best and most sure way to accomplish the goal of my customers. I am very happy to be signing the Manifesto. Giorgos Psaros: (Various & Diverse) Agile methods, Agile software, Happy customers, Proud developers! Bahman Zamani: (http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~b_zamani) I've seen a lot of failures in software projects in my country (Iran), due to lack of knowledge about this agile methodologies and trying to use high weight methodologies for small (or medium) scale projects. I beleive that it really works and customers are better satisfied. Senthilkumaran: (Symbol Technologies) Atlast there seems to be a methodology that adopts down-to-earth / useful principles. Peter Bennett: (familus) Even Downunder and Way Out West, in Perth WA this makes sense, particularly to someone with a hard-work disability. We should all be lightening up. Of course it will also help leave more trees in the ground to do what they do best ... make oxygen, shade and mulch! Don Alameda: (Integrated Automata, Inc.) We at IA have been practicing these principles for years, long before anyone ever put a name to them. We are so happy that the movement is growing and gaining momentum. This is one of the few methodology directions that I am not afraid to see codified, because by basic priciples the effort is not likely to go overboard and will remain flexible. I have been a lurker here for a while now, but (maybe because it is a political year) finally feel that the time has come to stand up and be counted. David Hislop: It seems that this process addresses the all too human dimension of software development. How this process interacts with formal corporate structures (budgets, quality systems) and formal proof (of software) develops is something I would like to see mature. Angelo Andretto: (CSFB) I'm using this approach since I was introduced from Frank Mondora, it works and it's great. Thankyou folks fot all of that Gerry Miller: (Microsoft Corporation) Tedi Zanfolim: That´s the way to build a more 'pacific' software development environment: putting developers and customers on the same side. Deliver working, high quality software as soon as possible should always be the goal of both roles. Tony Zeng: (Nokia RNC R&D Site) Don't forget to Challenge the proven successful model. There is always a better way! Sergei Plaxienko: (http://sp.drbit.ru/) Leonardo Martinez: (Grupo cubo) Marc Campeau: (BNC) Joe Morales: (Morales Computing Corporation) Mark Striebeck: (VA Software) XP and other agile techniques helped us to separate the valuable assets from unnecessary ballast in our development process. The result was a highly motivated and productive team as well as a top-notch product. As a vendor of Software Development tools we are now trying to deliver the same to our customers. James B. Phillips: (Gleason Works) I have done an exhaustive amount of reading regarding Agile practices and it's associative metodologies. Thanks to your hard work, shifting through and creating helpful and non-helpful thought processes, I have been allowed to better concentrate on what concepts might best aid our team. We have a road ahead of us, but feel we have direction, goals, and helpful methods for this development project. Regards, James Phillips Alvaro Montiel: I believe that most important on TI is satisfy the real information necesity of the customers. Alex Filonov. Dick Maguire. John Pepper: Finally a breath of fresh air into the room that is traditional software development. Tim Hagemann. Brandon Murdoch: (Internet Knowledge & Technologies Ltd) sanjay singh: (4cplus) Agile-manifesto gives True approach to reach Milestone solutions Kory Lovre: This is the way development should be... led more by the developers themselves than by the process. ER White. Wolfgang Slany: (Institut für Softwaretechnologie, Technische Universität Graz) My students translate the agile manifesto into German as a part of the final exam in my course on software development and knowledge management 8-) . IMO it is a good take-home message from the course: When translating the manifesto, they spend time remembering and reformulating for themselves the motives for agile software development methods. Qun Lin: Agile development helps me do a better job. Tony Isaac: (http://www.isaacsoft.com) My current employer has convinced itself that we must adopt heavyweight processes as soon as possible...meanwhile, development has ground to a halt. What a waste! Hire some tech writers if you've got to have books! I applaud this effort to debunk some of the old process myths, and lend credibility to concepts that every "real" programmer already knows. Heinrich E. Seifert: (HESConsult Ing.-Buero Seifert) ateeque: (Kamer Technologies) Quality Drive Quantity Barbaros Gunay: (http://www.geocities.com/barbaros_gunay) I believe especially now, -after a market downturn- people will understand real value of agile methods. Shiju Joseph. Stephan Kämper: (http://www.stephankaemper.de) Processes and methods should be as simple as possible - but no simpler (Einstein said something very similar about physical theories). If a formal process is mandatory (manned space flight), then use it. But if it's not ('throw away script'), use something simpler. John Beeman: (Financialware, Inc.) I've been involved in software QA for the past 15+ years but only recently became familiar and involved with agile development and testing activities. And while the shift away from traditional, ingrained requirements-driven development has been cumbersome at times (old dog, new tricks), the efficiencies and outcomes of agile methods continue to be self evident. Simplicity, forethought, and in many ways good old-fashioned common sense are affirmed through the Manifesto. Zeljko Markovic: (Haefele GmbH & Co. KG) Agile is superior. Alan Goodwin: (EDS UK) Ed Wilson: I've been trying to do this for years! Let's get some momentum going. Rob Vermazeren: (itvanced) I fully support and embrace the Agile Manifesto and the principles it describes. With Agility customers get what they want: quality software for a good price. And developers get what they want: something to be proud of. Sylvain Chery: (Agile Partner S.A.) We support the Agile Manifesto and we are promoting its values and practices in Luxembourg and beyond! Alfredo Perez: (Avon Cosmetics Mexico) Ray Suliteanu. SEGHROUCHNI: (STRAGILIS) The more you exercise, the more agile you become ... Rajat Bhattacharya: (Wipro Technologies) DureSameen: (Outreachdigital) Wanna to practise agile Sarath Chandra K: (Quad One Technologies) Being Agile adds value to our customers, to our team members and us as an organization. Being a small organization we have learnt and responded to various situations in our organization life time. Many of these situations needed us to be 'Agile' and we found the returns of being Agile strongly over weigh the initial inertia to continue with older mechanism. Thomas Pfeffer: (CONET AG) For several months I wondered why my way of PM works quite good despite the fact it wasn't according to classical standardized process models. Now I know what agile means and know I know why it worked and how to work on continuos improvements. The next step is to transport this to management and to convince them from the Agile Manifesto. mufit sozen. Cassio Camilo: Better quality and agility to development process is becoming soo important that anyone will use it. Not to replace the tradicional manner, but to agregate values. Karl Moens: (Marsh N.V.) The bit about "helping others do it" is what we do at PerlMonks! (http://www.perlmonks.org) Narong Wesnarat: I believe this is a good practice for software development. It will eliminate misunderstanding between developers and their customers. Eric Dubuis: (Berner Fachhochschule) Dan Buchanan: I am working on my master's degree in IT and have chosed to write my thesis on Agile processes. David Medinets: (Eclectic Consulting) Shanba: Interested in the Agile Manifesto. I am a strong believer of team interaction and customer collaboration than on processes and tools. Francesco Frentrop: (Admiral Business Solutions) Way to go! Hari Varanasi: A manifesto that I hope every software developer and IT manager reads and follows. If there is one document about software that folks should read often it is this manifesto. I was fortunate to have some smart people open my eyes to the agile ways. Discovering XP and the seeing it in action was the second best thing I experienced in my software life after my first successful program in BASIC. Keep up the good work. Vijay Ruhela. Behzad Sadeghi: (Internet Systems Group) This makes software develpment a "natural" process. It is natural to work with people, rather than processes. It is natural to get things done, rather than write about them. It is naturally to work with the people you are writing software for. And it is natural to evolve as things evolve, rather than stick to a fixed plan. Leonardo Morley Braga: I want to know more and more about Agile Manifesto! To do that, i will study and pratice the Manifesto. Thanks a lot ! Natalie Vaslavsly. Tim King. John Madden: (Duke University) Recently discovered the literature on agile and XP development, and it's been a revelation. Software is about people, not about computers! Keep up the good work. kathleen dorsey: (Lab Safety Supply) DI Florin Ioan CHERTES: (DI Florin Ioan CHERTES) We all do some kind of agile development. It is time to speak about it and study it. Mike Mason: (http://mikemason.ca/) Mohamed Irshan: (ITTI Private Limited) Marco Romano: (Mobyt Srl) Chandra Hundigam: (NYTP Inc.) Like Extreme programming (XP), Agile Methodology talks about handling changing requirements , Architecture, Design and quickly refactoring the code to achieve the changes. Since most of the managers wants prototype and then develop it into major product.. Agile methodology helps in turning the small idea into a serious project. enrico villa: (an4a) finally !! this is real philosophy ! tnx Song, Chi-hyung: (Seoul National University) Andrej Kyselica. Naman Mehta: (KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd) Robert Bibber: (Northeast Laboratory Services) I am the only programmer - and until recently the only IT support - for a small company in Maine. This company is in a high-tech industry so the computer needs are great, but since it is still a small company the budget isn't so great. For five years I've been building software as needed with little or no thought given to the SDLC or other development methodologies mainly because of time constraints. This resulted in having to spend much more time testing, supporting, and maintaining my code. At first this wasn't such a problem, but as my code base grew it became more and more unmanageable. I have been looking for a development methodology that is effective but efficient and allows me to spend more time programming and less time documenting. I am hopefull that the Agile Method will be what I've benn looking for! Sanjeevakumar Hiremath: (Proteans Software Solutions) Yeah, the manifesto is practical. I value Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. But the concept itself needs processes and/or tools to be useful. Andrea Weisberger. Merrill B. Lamont, Jr.: I am delighted to discover that the Agile Manifesto describes much of what I have been doing over the past 8 years in a small IT shop for an overseas operation, where I had sole responsibility to produce custom code (in Oracle) for our users, and the freedom to work closely with them to get it done. The attitude of, "Gee, let's pretend we own this, and want to make it work," makes all the difference in the world. Kyle Willkomm: (Accenture) Heavy process is usually driven by fear. Fear brings out the worst in people. Thank you for attempting to combat it in my industry. I hope some day they'll join us, And the office will live as one. James Lawrence: (AnnoTech Software Consultants) We have been developing to an agile methodology long before it was put to paper. This has been part and parcel of Annotech's RAD application Development process. We have been educating our developers in the Agile methodology and are hoping to fully adopt and play a part in this Manefesto Vraiment Tredway: Amen Mustafa KUBILAY: I'm a PG student in METU Turkey and I'll do a master thesis with agile development k suresh babu: I liked this simple and short description of the development process. Jon Stahl: (Independent) Shen, Shenghao: It is wonderful! Santosh Kumar Sahoo: (Wipro Infotech) I am fully in agreement with the Agile values. But the risk here is to be able to build the customer confidence. After winning the confidence of the customer, rest becomes easier. Communication in addition to credibility will play a major role in winning customer's trust Aniruddha Shahasane: (USF) Agile processes is the need for the present and certainly future. Paul Marrington: (Askowl Pty Limited) The manifesto is a clear description of principles I have been working towards all my professional life. Paul Warren: (The Sheffield College) Agile is the way forward, having used the methods for some years now and seeing what others have done, makes my decision of being a Agilest the right one. Alexander Papanastassiou: (Alter Eco) This is all a matter of working for results in the real world rather than for compliance with rigid and artificial methodologies in Bureaucratistan. The excesses of the industrial age must be put behind us. It is time to accept the near-chaotic nature of our world. People are not machines and the software we build is ultimately designed to serve people... Greg Balajewicz: (GMB Consulting Inc.) I agreed and continue to agree with the principles outlined in the manifesto through my entire carrier – I am glad someone finally put those thoughts into words. In my experience, most people will readily agree to the manifesto however few practice it… what a shame. Will Spurgeon: (Tech-It-Easy, Inc.) Rodolfo de Paula: (http://rodolfodpk.tripod.com/index_en.html) I came from the ground : from DbaseII/CPM/Apple to Java/OO/Agile... After some hard projects trying to be ISO/CMM/RUP/etc well polished, I had discovered Agile Manifesto effort and now I have my faith in software development field back. Hey, ho, lets go ! vijaygopal: (Translucent Softwares) WE are a startup company trying to analyze and adopt some standard process for our software development service as well as software product development. Deepak.D. Adventos LLC. Kolawole Ogunlana: (Compute-rite Systems Limited) Regis Costa Maciel. Vimal Gupta: (Oracle) Antony Marcano: (testingReflections) Agility is first a state of mind, then a liberating a way of life... Henrik Thomsen: (CONEXP) Long track record of building mission critical systems. Project manager on larger projects. Bachelor of Computer Science (De Montfort University) Datamatician. Laboratory technician. Experience within the following industries: - Defence - Pharmaceuticals - Laboratories - Health care Niels Bech Nielsen: (logical) Mike Kenny: (inzanix) I believe that Agile Software Development has been around for a long time, though not in any formalized state. In my experience many projects were delivered along the lines of eXtreme Programming methodologies with the significant difference that the actual projects were terminated on time but followed by many patches, enhancements, revisions, etc. In effect they followed the principal of 'deliver often and deliver late' rather than 'deliver often and deliver early' which adhering to Agile Software Development would have allowed. Philippe Ombredanne: (nexB) I guess I should have signed years ago. Agility rocks. Been a fan of it since late 1999. Simple beats complex. Glynn Jones. Paul gaetani: (Kronos) Curtis McMillin: (Tomahawk Consulting, Inc.) Devendra Joshi: (Summit Information Technologies Ltd.) Changing customer requirements or even understanding them has always been a problem with software architects. Making customer an integrated part of development process makes agile development process worth following. Markus Rohlof: That is, what we have done successfully for many years! Raghava: (http://raghava.blogspot.com) 3 things 1. Version Control Software 2. Issue tracking Software 3. Build Generation and Scheduling Software Everything else is a "bloat". Hail Agile!! NOEL C BRANZUELA: I am very interested and would like to really lear at the same time would like to share whatever I learn. Thanks Alejandro Di Battista: (Lexmatica) Los clientes demandan velocidad y flexibilidad. Por mucho tiempo me convencí a mi mismo que no era posible... Hoy no tengo excusas... Christian Zagrodnick: (gocept) Chris L. Cole: (Emination, Inc.) Dr. James P. Davis: (University of South Carolina) I teach undergraduate and graduate course in hardware and software engineering, as well as carry out research, in the areas covered by the Mainfesto. The Manifesto represents an "organic" and "holistic" approach to the issues pertaining to project organization, application of project-related and artifact-centric methods, and the execution and subsequent tracking of effectiveness of the project team in meeting both artifact-related requirements and project-related objectives. Paul Hathaway: (ANSTO Bragg Institute) There are those of us who are engineers and scientists first, and keen software developers second. To keep focus on the project goals, with the customer and team in an agile environment, is vital to our success and satisfaction that the work has been done well. This Manifesto is a guiding light. Michael Schader: (Yellow House Associates, LLC) Recently I've seen a number of backlash articles that attempt to impugn XP and other lightweight methodologies by focusing on pitfalls in particular situations. They're missing the point. The Agile basics are fundamentally impossible to argue with -- who's opposed to working software or customer collaboration? Silvia Lozano: (Avansoft S.A.) We need to learn about adaptative software process to improvement our productivity Eduardo Pereira Habkost: (Conectiva S.A.) Branimir Dolicki: (http://branimir.com) Nigel Thorne: (http://www.nigelthorne.com) Arun: (SRC Software) What i like most about this is that it demands nothing that does not come natural to a programmer who love his or her work . It is on the whole a very natural and intuitive process . Azhar: (4 Brothers) I Strongly support Agile Development methodology due to its fast, and quality steps in Software developement. Navin Samuel: (Zensar Technologies Inc) I subscibe 100% to the philosophy of Agile development. But I also realize that "Processes & Tools", "Comprehensive Documentation", "Contract Negotiation" & "Following a Plan" are absolutely necessary for success in the longer run. The only way to bring about a collaboration among these factors is by automating as much as possible the non value adding activities involved in these processes. We at Zensar are working towards the same. Our Solution BluePrint framework is a step in this direction. Claudio Quagliaro. Ilias Bartolini. Hafeez Abdul: (ip3 Systems Ltd) I am a new to Agile and trying to implement 12 core practices of XP methodology at my work place. Wes Johnson, PMP: (Roadrunner Project Management Consultants) I've been practicing this for years and now I know its name Brian Bishop: (Degree Student) Yeah, these principles are for real, let the pack organise itself, and a hierarchy will develop Mahesh Mulchandani: (L10nBridge India) Agile Methods are not just methods but CULTURE to be sown and nurtured across organization, user groups and industries. For a IT Professional Agile is a WAY OF LIFE, which induces sense of participation, contribution and collabration rather than following rigid and outdated PROCESSES and TOOLS. Thomas Purcell: The Manifesto captures the concept that we should work together. A good philosophy for life, not just programming. Daniel Larson: (Larson Technology) Ashikuzzaman: (http://ashik.blog-city.com) I am a java and open source developer. lynn kelkeys: I think the "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" should be expanded to include "People before Corporations". While you may think this is outside the boundary of a software development concept or belief, it really is an extention of the value mentioned above. The corporate mindset is devaluing the individual's worth at an ever increasing rate. The simple statement "Everything is personal", sums up the idea. Please comment.. Zvonimir Dudan: (Capgemini) Bill Edgar: (Hegemony, Inc.) Our company supports the Agile Manifesto. Xavier Elizarraras: Simply and elegantly, the manifesto shows the way software should be developed. Stephen Soderback: (Soderback Consulting Group) Chris Kourelakos: (TIAA-CREF) I'm glad someone finally stated what I've been practicing since I first got involved in the IT world - nearly 30 years now Dave Carlson: (DynoTech Software) "Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done." DynoTech Development Theory: Work together and trust them to get the job done. Eldridge T. Martinez: I want to share my knowledge and at the same time cater knowledge from you experts. Kevin Bowd: (tentendigital) encourage change to give the customer competitive edge....and measure progress by software and not documentation. That's what I love about the manifesto!!! Robert Fancher: I support this manifesto. But how do we change? The whole team has to change. How can I convince management to support the change??? This is something for me to work on. Raymond Wood: (Independant International Consultant) At last a pragmatic approach which goes back to the basics of customer facing interactive development! Let's hope people will see the light and we can move away from projects staffed with armies of people who know nothing about IT, Computers or the business, but can list a 1,000 reasons why you can't proceed with a simple, customer driven modification. Rob Schulz: (AJAE Consulting Ltd.) Many software development methods and practices focus on trying to build a better bridge paved with documentation, between the two islands of software developers and clients. As a project manager, I prefer to be a boat captain, bringing one group to meet the other and work together on a solution. It has proven more successful this way! I agree and support this manifesto. Matt Bumgardner. Dave Dempsey: (Lastparty Ltd.) It's good to see such common-sense ideas acquiring a name and status. Norman Sasono. Vivek Vets: (Safenet Inc.) James Schiel: (Siemens Medical Solutions) After too many years as a manager of development teams, it has become clearly obvious that software development is more an art form than a process and that defined processes would be no more effective for the creation of a new product than in the painting of "Starry Night." My organization is committed to the Agile Manifesto and in spreading that commitment as far in our company and parent company as we possibly can manage. Patrick Notz. Scott Cote': (Sentera Technology) Marcelo Emmerich: (em|Motion) Mahmudun Nabi Mamun: (Millennium Information Solution Limited) Mohan Radhakrishnan: (Accenture) After having burnt my fingers working on a fixed price single-pass model for a ODC, I want to adopt a more flexible approach. I understand and like agility even though I am looking for help to introduce and gain experience in a real-time environment because I have to go to one country to gather requirements and code in another. Jay Swann. David Jemeyson: (Clear Channel Worldwide) Nazim Pethani: Wow. This is a process that I definitely agree with. As a developer, using the agile process provides you with so many advantages. Even in school, the Software Engineering class introduced us to the Agile process. It is one of the best methods out there and one that encourages a lot of growth. I would seriously recommend anyone who has not tried this to give it a shot. Marco Studer: The agile way is the right way software should be developed. We should educate our project managers. Yannick Arekion. Gene Camier. Ernest Mnkandla: (Monash University, South Africa) Most software development practitioners say there are no best practices in software development, but I believe the Agile Software Development is nothing less than a collection of best practices in modern software development. Robert Kreher: (IBM Global Services) Project Manager, PMP Marcos Sciarra: (AON) Mike Mahon: (Zia Consulting, Inc) I have been using XP and Agile Software development with my clients as often as possible for the past 4 years. I have had a difficult time getting new clients to work with an agile software development process. Stanley Park. Alexander Fedin: There are just few ways to MAKE CUSTOMERS HAPPY. I believe that Agile process is the most effective one. Sabarish: (Bluechip Infoway) I find the agile methodologies very interesting. We are facing the challenges mentioned in the various documents that are intended to be solved by Agile techniques everyday. A combination of agile methodologies and a tool that will allow externalization of business processes will provide much better value to end customers. Externalization of rules will further reduce the time required for each iteration. Reducing time for each iteration is what can make Agile practice successful. Dean Edmundson: (Intel Corporation) Thanks for helping us find the new path! "There's no question, follow and you'll be misled!" - The Kings Shaik Pakeer Babu: (CoOptions Technologies Limited) I have read Mr.Alistair Cockburn's Agile Software Deveopment book.In deed it is a parcticle approach, which other wise we waste lot of time in documentation and coordination.Currently. Dietmar Zilz: (ICCMW) All said! David Nunn. Madson Menezes Costa: (Centro de Informática/UFPE - Brasil) Do things in agile way is not only do the things fast, in fact, it´s do the things right. Sahayaraj Soosainavis: I have seen too many software development projects get caught in the 'Process Quagmire' where eventually a few individuals defying conventional "wisdom" have to save the day in the end! To me this seems to capture the essence of what some of us have been doing secretly over the years anyway!. Is the world finally ready for 'common sense' rather than 'hype'! I am glad that finally we can concentrate on producing working software rather than producing reems of documentation to prove that "It wasn't my fault!". At the very least I am glad that we can at least openly talk about it now! And because of that I am all for it!! There is hope after all!!! julio cesar: (iidea.com.br) Kevin Short: (OxMicro LLC) Antonio J. Sucre S.: (Business & Information Technology Hi-Tech) I believe Agile Software Development is the next Evolution in Software Development. It is the approach that best takes advantage of today's tools and technologies for developing software. It an approach that best satisfies everyone's goals on a software project... in the most timely and cost effective manner. Initiative Owners get what they want; quick, quality solutions at the lowest possible price. Domain experts get what they want; solutions that solve their processing needs in the best possible fashion, based on how they want the solution to work, delivered according to their priorities. IT gets what they want; a flexible/ realistic approach for building software solutions. The rules of the Agile Manifesto formalize what happens naturally when people of good will do their best to collaborate and succeed in software developpement. Object developpers know it from the beginning, it's now time to educate managers. La metodologěa de la programaciňn extrema brinda a los Conceptualizadores de Sistemas la posibilidad de crear nuevas formas de hacer sistemas con un enfoque mas realista y ajustado a las necesidades de los clientes. Que bueno que siguen surgiendo nuevas formas de hacer sistemas. La gerencia, ingenierěa, procura y construcciňn de sistemas tienen otro paradigma en sus conceptos. Alois Kácovský: I like things that make sense. Amit Dalvi: (Synygy Inc.) Great thoughts! Would be keen to see how they work in enterprise projects. Steven Schwell: (Bloomberg LP) Sergio Bonato. Johannes Dieterich: (sd&m AG) Prashant Kumar: Had good taste of RUP, and feeling excited about using SCRUM/XP in my coming projects. Sometime back everybody was talking about PROCESSES and better PROCESSES(core aspect in CMM)..but Agile depends upon PEOPLE! May be after some time we move ahead to find another avenue for better PRODUCTIVITY! Peter Valtersson. Jérôme Layat: (Hortis.ch) Spreading agile software development among my clients for about 3 years now... Altough it's sometimes difficult to convince some, I'm surely not going to stop today ;) ziggler: (http://ziggler.blogchina.com) Stéphane Tavera: (Hortis.ch) Iteration #0 : throw away the poster from the e-something company ;-) Paula Rust: (Progressive Insurance) Agile is a growing reality at Progressive Insurance. As a Project Manager, I would like to be kept in the loop of Agile information and updates. Ahmad Lotfy Gomaa: (Integration Engineering Bureau LTD) Alex Ostrovsky: (Trace Mojo Systems Corp.) Go agile or go home. Ahmad Lotfy Gomaa: (Integration Engineering Bureau LTD) leyon: I Support the Agile Manifesto! Gustaf Brandberg: (Citerus AB) The more I study and practice the agile principles, the more I realize how powerful they are. Sanjeevi.A: I find the manifesto more meaningful in real life situations to meet the challenges and also satisfy customer needs! Omer Muzaffar. Vinh Phuc Dinh: After the very first xp days in Germany, I now also want to be part of the movement to a better world. Thomas Myer: (Triple Dog Dare Media) The agile methodology has really worked for us. Getting past the design document is a relief--and besides, working in this way is truely a triple dog dare. :) M'balz Es-hari: can't wait to shave down development time! Philippe Damerval: (State of Alaska) I wholly embrace the common sense behind these resolutions and in particular the continuous delivery, user collaboration approach which is the best way to both manage customer expectations and motivate development at the same time. I like the recognition of the importance of documentation and planning, while I appreciate the awareness of the limits of these concepts in and of themselves. This has been my trend and hope for years as a software development professional, and I am gratified to find it adopted and promoted at such high level, by a team of people whom I look up to. Sudhindra Rao: (ThoughtWorks Inc) Nynke Etk Fokma: (Moebius) Eduardo Marquez: I have been delivering solutions for over 25 years in different capacities--developer, analyst, SQA Manager, Project Manager, Software Development Manager and user--while trying different methodologies and with different rigor in project management. With all this experience I can say that Agile Software Development summarizes what the majority of us in the software industry knows and wish to do. It is all about delivering working useful solutions to our clients, what a concept! I gladly sign the Agile Manifest. Paul Sinnema: (http://www.paulsinnema.com) I've been an IT Person since 1970 and still am. Only 2 years ago got into Agile. Haven't been able to do a lot in current projects but still believe Agile to be much better then the way I've been doing things. Trying to convince people has become one of my prime goals but it's not easy, especially in those environments where there's a lot of management relying on old phylosophies and a lot of money is involved! Scokart Gilles. David Dexter: (Technology through Broken Parts) Shlomi: (ECI telecomunication Israel) Andre Gusmao: (CASTMETA Informatica) My company in Brazil deals with teh same problems on a daily basis: changing requirements, non-working software, unsatisfied customers, unprofitable projects and so on. To only way to we have found to resolve this issues is exctaly the principles of the Agile Manifesto. Count me in to spread the word in Brazil. Satyadarshi Mishra: (ThoughtWorks) Agile techniques are specific to Software development and that's why they make more sense. These practices are not are adopted from other industries like construction and therefore are more effective. Dave McMunn: (Digital Focus) Ghent Lim: (University of Windsor) Go Agilefactor! Teoman Delov: (D.E.Ü.) I absolutely agree to this manefesto! Vladimir Levin: (Wireless Matrix) Agile development is not about cobbling software together willy nilly. On the contrary, agile development is about professionalism and discipline. But it is also about being practical, common sense, and getting real results. Claudia Pozo: (Burger King Corporation) everything this manifesto stands for helps your IT team build better working relationships with the business creating a flexible environment for the users where they feel like they are getting what they need!!!! Working as a team and doing away with many of the processes, tools, and documentation required today to develop applications makes your IT Team more productive and creates a better environment to work in. Claudia Jeb Himsl: (RxAmerica) Richard J. Watt: (ThoughtWorks) G. Ashok Kumar. Rik Fischer Smoody: (smOOdynamics) Choir practice is fun, but there's still a huge amount of converting to do. I suspect that the revolution will happen by evolutionary processes: as individuals leave and are replaced by more enlightended young'uns. Would that we could speed it up, but too many people won't learn new tricks nor adopt new philosophies. Mark Carter: (Dow Chemical) I find it amazing how IT keeps searching for "the answer." The Agile Manifesto simply makes it clear: listening, managing change, managing action, and managing feedback are central to being responsive(or agile if you prefer). Well done. Erik Ableson. jai pradeep: (Patni) I am supporting AGILE because i feel that a lot of time is wasted in the so called Six Sigma processes and if we could save our time and use it for adding value to the product. I feel that approximately, 20 percent of the time is wasted in documentation and another 20 percent wasted in reading documents. It would be better if someone could just show for 5 mins that this is what to be done instead of reading the document for some 8 hrs and yet not understanding it. The worst thing is trying to read the whole functionality before doing anything. Its hard for a person to understand the full functionality and from my experience, i found that its a waste of time to read the docs and all i learn is by doing it, right or wrong. when there are too many documents and too many places where they are found, its very easy for anyone to get lost in the maze of the knowledge documents just as anyone trying to search a topic on the web would get lost. Kevlin Henney: (Curbralan) Peter Svensson. Nicolas Gosselin: Just regretting not having signed this one before! ;-) Ellen Salisbury: (Yahoo!) Mark Finley: (finley information Systems inc.) What can I say that hasn't been said better? Loganathan Parthipan: (Virtusa) Ahmet Urel. Johan Witters. Anthony C. Brewer. Benoit Ouellet: (ProjectCards.com) Planning by two-week iterations has litterally changed our development perspective. What's most important for the customer is completely different from what's most important for the analyst. If you are still using MS Project for planning software development, think again: embrace change. Ing. Ruben Carballo Macklis: I know RUP, CMM and other's, but that's burocracy, waste of my valueable time and resources. So simplicity it's the best way for good software.... A Crazy MEXICAN.... Agustin Gonzalez: (Townlake Software) Jignesh Panchal: I totally agree with the Agile Manifesto. It is a very good and new concept in software developing world. Aidy Rutter: Agility has improved my skills, knowledge and software that I have built and tested. Mike Blake: (http://www.martinicity.net) This manifesto has helped focus my original passion for creating software. Software should make are lives easier not more complicated. Uwe Hegemann: It is amazing to see how the people in our process build on the principles of the agile manifesto begin to deliver working software of real value that is driven by what seemed to have doomed out of our faces a long time ago: fun! It seemed to be a long, stony way (completely replacing an exiting old system - do i have to say more?) - but now, things rapidly become clearer to me, just like driving up a mountain on a foggy day and suddenly breaking through the blanket of clouds getting a perferct view around. Scott Livingston. Umer Uzair: (niit) i want to learn and practice Agile software development process as "Only the Change is Constant" Dominique Plante: (CafePress.com) I believe that the underlying values of the agile manifest do in fact encourage producing better software than traditional approaches! I highly recommend everyone to try as much of Extreme Programming as possible - in particular Test Driven Design, Continuous Integration, Merciless Refactoring, Pair Programming are all *great* practices that should lead you to developing better code! Chet Haibel: In medical devices, the FDA and other regulatory bodies have enshrined the "waterfall model" which assumes the requirements are known (or even knowable) before one starts to develop a product. This is a breath of fresh air to allow some reality and admit we learn as we go. Jonas Ekstrom: (Sweden .NET User Group) When will they ever learn that time is the 4th dimension. Eyal Ben Ze'ev: (IBM) "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi. Branko Jeremic. Tomi Schuetz: (http://www.tomi.ch/) Bruce Hutfless. Luca Botti: (Antlia srl) I think it is time for IT operators to deliver real value to our customers. I believe Agile methodology is the correct way to deliver. Michael Branson. R.Dhanasekar. Stanislav N. Samolenkov: (Enterprise Information Systems) Flávio Leal de Siqueira. lior sion. Karen Hackett: The ideas behind the Agile Manifesto strike a chord in most of us who have endured enough angst from failed projects despite our best efforts and felt the exuberance of successful projects. Gino Marckx: (Xodiac) Focus on people, focus on a team. If the team is feeling good, the rest will follow... Do not dictate a way of working, let it emerge instead. David Smalley: (Progressive) Vivek Awasthi: (ISTS Worldwide Inc) We support and encourage the Agile development process. This is something that is practical for usage among real-world programmers, and can still maintain 'dignity' in the corporate world. Overall, agile is practical, and we would do all to help it's reach further. Giovanni Caristi: (Vodafone Italy) Revolution, then evolution! Darron Jennings: It's simply amazing how obvious this methodology is, and yet contrary to every management principal. Developers love it, customers love it. Managers and Executives WILL love it, eventually. Jim Yarlett: (Thales) Bringing order from chaos! Frank Peterson: This is the only way to fly. Philip Bremner: (Visual SAP) The "Agile Methodology" is characterized by a pragmatic work ethic focussing on the customer and quality while respecting the synergy of a software team and the creativeness of a software developer. This methodology does not let the process rule the people. David Batic: (Iskratel Ltd.) A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step and can only be taken one step at a time. -- An old saying John Krol: (Square Mile consulting) my interest has been improving our own internal development methodology for applications. I think that agile methodologies have been good to keep in mind. Paul W Woodman: To me this is the "one best" way to not only develop software or make any change. Jim Watkins: (Texas Instruments) Jim has managed software projects for over 20 years and sees Agile principles and practices as the path to solving many fundamental problems with developing software. Chris Patteson: (FedEx) I continue to nurture and encougrage Agile practices in both IT and "traditional" process worlds. As a degreed industrial engineer, I truly believe understanding the Human Factors (and constraints) behind delivering results on projects is key to improving and enhancing the delivery process. Igor Dedough. Jim Jones: (Tom Thumb Software) This is essentially the process I used on a NASA project 15 years ago. We even convinced the customer to have a representative at a desk near our desks so we could have close daily interaction. James Caristi: (Valparaiso University) Nothing else makes any sense. Dondy Bappedyanto: Agile development is the only way to make a piece of software that has good quality Scott Worley: (Freelance Consultant) Agile Practitioner of various methods, depending upon the clients needs and screnario. Currently focusing on applying Scrum and MSF4 Agile/formal to Business process and project management outside of Software Development. Acting Mentor to various companies in US, Europe, Canada, Hongkong and Mainland China. Evangalizing Agile process in China, and anywhere else I go. Currently based in Shanghai, Frequent travel to HK, Beijing, Canada, US and UK. To be successful in Agile process eductaion, one has also to be agile in approach, knowing how to do Agile process is not enough, you have to become it! Jun Du: (Atlantis Systems International, Inc.) Thomas Quas: (Self-Employed) Most people do understand that planning life from baby-age to retirement is an impossible thing to do. Some people realize that life evolves in directions unpredicted with each decision made. A bunch of people recognized this is true for software, too. Hopefully, there will be more of those by the end of the day. Mischa Christen: It is not perfect when you can not add anything, it is perfect when you can not leave out more. Perfekt ist es nicht wenn Du nichts mehr hinzufuegen kannst, sondern wenn Du nichts mehr weglassen kannst. Rikk Carey: (plaxo) Been doing this for most of my career. Glad to find others that feel this way. Stanislav Lisse: (VKK NVO) I am a beginner Roy Osherove: (Team Agile) Thank you for making it all so clear and simple. There's a tough task ahead, but with courage, simplicity, feedback and communication we can accomplish anything. Israel is starting to realize this. We'll soon catch up. Mituyoshi Kawabata: (Agileware) Test Driven Development is best! Pere Villega: I support this, for SW sake :) Abdel A Saleh: (http://xp.roundtripsolutions.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) Its Agility not fragility. The act of moving forward while keeping your focus on the journey and constantly evaluating your path. Its not easy. I have never valued the words communication and feedback like I do now. Thank you. Mark Van Tuyl: (Van Tuyl Software) mark hesketh: (ip australia) I like the no-nonsense Agile Manifesto - it rings true with me most of the time. Cédric Dupont: (SOPRA GROUP.) Norman Headlam: (http://normanheadlam.blogspot.com) Bob Marshall: (Falling Blossoms) Capability development specialists, applying Agile principles to both Software Engineering and Enterprise Engineering alike. Experienced in harmonising Agile principles with e.g. RUP and CMMi. Bill Wall: (Stonewall Software) To be agile is to evolve with the abilities of today's world. The software world is the most true of this concept. raony mascarenhas de araújo. Joe Duncan: (Daugherty Business Solutions) Working on applying the principles if the Agile Manifesto to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. David Kennedy: (Aspen Leaf Software) We should never lose sight of the fact that what we are trying to do as software developers is develop the right software at the right time, not produce documents that will be obsolute before we are finished writing them. Jeff Winchell: (http://Winchell.org) My Inner Cartman says the manifesto should be retitled Getting to Duh: Realizing Humans Make Technology (not the other way around). Thank you to all of you making software soft and more wearable. Uckun Emel: Thanks to the founders of human-oriented development. FAYEN Daniel: (DFA) To be agile is to evolve with the changing world and, more important, to keep focus with the customer true needs. This no-nonsense approach should be spread over the community: both the (software) supplier and the user(the customer) should understand this approach is their best interest. Experienced in harmonising Agile principles with CMMI and PMI. Karl Wilson: (Creative Technologists) I support the Agile Manifesto, because it makes sense. After two weeks into my study of agile methods, I am overwhelmed with the new directions and insight the book Agile Documentation, by Andreas Ruping is giving me. I am at the start of my business venture and am now at the documentation of the business and the last year’s hard work stage. The book and sequential learning’s have given my new hope in understanding what lays ahead of me, and the tools to manage and combat any further problems. For someone who suffers from dyslexia, but has no choose but to do the essential documentation themselves, I am amazed how easy my task has now become, and I do not say this lightly. Straight forward thinking equals straight forward solutions. Heaven. Agile thinking has removed many previous mental blocks, which other teachings have failed to do with dyslexics. Many thanks, Karl This book and method is worth every penny you could put in. Jukka Lindstrom: Agile methodologies have changed the software industry a great deal more motivating to work in. Values of the Agile Manifesto place emphasis on bringing back the joy to projects while increasing productivity and satisfying customers. Anthony Morenas: Hi All! Hands-on with projects since 1991 - was pleasantly surprise to find that the way that we practiced business - now had a name :-D Have evolved with the industry|technology since and still do - but some things do not change - Happy Customers for one! Fully believe|support this method that employs practical|common-sense approach to development!!! Cheers! Anthony.tx@gmail.com ± Theron James: (Common Technologies, Inc) We at Common Technologies are true believes in constantly and persistently finding better ways to create software and systems. Agile Development is one of those new ways. We are proud to use and support such a awesome method. Jeff Oberlander: (Vykor) Andrew P. Ho: (Medgistics) Bil Simser: (http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser) Alexander Gribanov: (IT-Studio) It's cool to deliver to customers what they really need in a way that really suits end-users and business Özgür Yođurtçu: (VeriPark) My favourite; "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.". Peter Misak: (Comarch s.r.o) Marcelo Lúcio da Silva: (Pgcon Consulting, BRAZIL) Down with the Torpid Methods!! Oliver Searle-Barnes: (Nutshell Development) Ramprasath K: SIR, i am a student of computer science and engineering(B.E).i am an indian studying in india. i am very much interested to develope softwares and i wish to take it as my carear. Dion Hinchcliffe: (Sphere of Influence) I am pleased to support the agile manifesto. Developing great software is one of the important ways that civilization moves forward. Solving the problems that prevent us from delivering great software is critical for our industry to move forward. Jenny Smith. Henning Wolf: (it-agile GmbH) David Romine: (AgileThought) Shaoshuai Shi: (School of Software,Tsinghua University, Peking, China) I am an agile software developer. Richard: (Craesol) Breath of fresh air as I see failing project managers dissapear into the abyss under a sea of paperwork. Given the levels of business change that we are dealing with today, the Agile is increasingly relevant, and potentially moves us towards a more transparent working environment. Javier Fernández Mejuto: (Telefónica I+D) Software development must change. The traditional methodologies don't work in the real world, where they have proved to be inefficient in terms of time and money. Now we have an alternative at our hand. Dave Draggon: (Intel) Fernando Rincon: (Open Systems Development - OSD) Our experience has taught us to believe not blindly in fantasy methodologies, considering them stiff, bureaucratic and little effective, but more well doing with open mind to find the real requests and the pragmatic solution. Ryan Peterson: (Creek Systems) My organizatoin has been implementing Agile development practices within large organizations for years. The results prove the methods. I always ask my clients how do they measure success. If the answer is working production software that produces measurable business cost savings, then the Agile processes are for you. If the answer is the thickness of the documentation folder, then stick to a big "M" methodology. My organization has the proof to backup the claims, and we've proved it in the real world for numerous clients. The software is produced on target, but more importantly the group dynamics and culture produced are staggering. I've never seen a more tight nit, cohesive development team then the agile team. Christopher J Taylor: (Infogenic Systems) Rich Greene: (InSource) Bernard Fraenkel: Agile works Sudev Mukherjee: (Sapient Inc) Agile methodology is for the developers, of the developers and by the developers. It is great to know that industry recognizing the value of having working software over rims of paper. I wish more and more people recon the value of it and the whole industry get benefited from this approach of software development. Thank you all. Francisco Uribe: (Universidad de Chile) Dr. Ernest Wallmueller: (Qualität & Informatik, Switzeland) People make processes. People are the key factor. Who communicates, wins. Emilio: I totally agree on the principles behind the Manifesto. Only one doubt about documentation: also working software needs essential documentation. Igor Kavilovich: (BiD.com.ua Corp.) We support The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Pollyanna Pixton: (Evolutionary Systems) Steven Shaw: (http://home.iprimus.com.au/steven_shaw/) John McKay: (McKay Software Services Ltd) I am in favour of precise communication between people and moving away from techical jargon and buzzwords. I also support incremenetal development. AGILE seems to help me to work along these lines Graham Mingst: (JPMC Chase) Niranjan Sarade: Very good motive Andrew Marks: (ResultMedia) Currently looking at overhalling the software process at work and the insights and direction I have recieved from researching Agile methods have been a tremendous help. Graciela E. Mardones: (Universidad de Vińa del Mar) David Winn, M.D.: (e-MDs) We are developers of electronic health records. We espouse an egalitarian philosophy of building great software in scope of function and ease of use and thru this process creating tremendous value. We share certain intellectual property components with the Open Source commuity in the hopes of spurring electronic health record adoption. Should we succeed in accelerating adoption of this proven life saving technology, then that success will be our ultimate reward. Madhusudhan Gattani: (iP3 Systems Ltd) Pete Skaarup: Computers should work the way people want them to work. Eric Anderson: (Magic Hat Technologies, LLC) Rohit Regonayak: (Trellisys.net ) Trellisys.net adopts a personal flavour of the “Agile Methodologies” which enables us to keep our eye on the ball at all times. Traditional development models fail consistently fail when customers are required to expend energy and resources on the processes, negotiations, effort estimates, documentation etc. instead of expending energy solving the issues at hand. The Trellisys way strives to find a balance between investing resources in processes and documentation which are essential in their own right and investing in productive time creating and adapting software. At Trellisys.net, we understand that this is a fine balance to maintain and needs to be re-evaluated during various phases of development. With each customer a unique balance of resource optimization should to be reached. Trellisys.net development teams keep pace with the aggressive business plans of our customers. We are continuously improving methods of software development by experimenting and helping others experiment. So here goes... "I support the Agile Manifesto" Peter Sommerlad: (HSR Rapperswil) Florin Marcus: (Gebsoft) Helen Chesterman: (UBS) vim: lovely! Akko Groenhof: (inspirIT consultants b.v.) Pinaki Poddar. Yury Lapis: (QA Guys Inc.) As a QA Director/Manager I always try to ensure that all strategic goals are achieved in a timely manner, while resources allocated to the project are used effectively and cost-efficiently. I ‘silently’ use Agile principles for many years. It is great that they are published now. Ariel Erlijman: (http://aerlijman.blogspot.com) Extreme Programming and Agile Development are a natural evolution in software design. Continous Integration, Unit Testing and Refactoring are key elements in my daily work. I no longer accept any kind of work unless I can deliver and change priorities in a weekly or bi-weekly fashion. Iterations are also a must. Keep going with this effort. Tricia Cherrington Ratliff: (CCPace) Carlos Juan Martín Pérez: (University of El Salvador) Christian Orellana. Adam Sosnowski. Emilio Suarez: (http://emiliosuarez.com) Everything for building better code, faster... And completely stand behind the people who wrote the Manifesto... way to go! Mark Clerget: (Consultants Guild) I continue to look for new and creative ways to be successful by implementing Agile principles in both private and public sectors. I'm all about project success and quite honestly, who can argue with success. Success is good for me and good for my customers. The diplomatic challenge is to help customer understand Agile and convince them that Agile is going to make them the most successful. If you would like to swap success stories on implementing Agile in private industry, local government or federal government, lets talk! Jason Cohen: This is simple and extremely effective. The old world of large bloated projects is dead in my opinion. Surendranath Mohanty. Gunjan Doshi: (Instrumental Services Inc.) Michael M. Butler. Michael Leeds: (VersionOne) The results from agile development speak for themselves. Expanding the value over time will continue to demonstrate the impact of agile development. Bas Vodde: (Nokia) Always forgot signing this. Finally!! Agile development is the way forward! Karianne Berg: (University of Bergen, Norway) I strongly support the use of agile methodologies, after learning the limitations of waterfall methodologies the hard way. Manoj Khanna: (Dextrus Prosoft) Franco Rinaudo: I completely endorse your vision. It happens that it was the one I applied to projects I was responsible for and the motivation of the people involved was always very high and a major factor of success !!!! Rob Bird: Truly the only way to develop the wise way. Daniel Larson: (Portal Builder) Silex Cubed, Inc.: (Software Development Company) Bala: (University of Houston) James Wheeler: (SmartArrays, Inc) The pleasant thing about this document, apart from its brevity, is that it affirms my own experience in what makes software projects successful. Peter J. Rogers. Sebastian Richter: I use these principles now since 6 years and they work!!! Try it!!! Linda Larrivee: (Ultimate Software) Kelley Johnston: There's no substitute for talking with people. I've been developing software since 1970. Competent software development has ever been there, along with instances of overweight process- and documentation-driven development. Today's iteration of the former is called Agile Software Development. I've never seen an instance where paying attention to, and reacting quickly to the customer's needs has failed to impress. Conversely, I've never seen an instance of overly process and documentation-driven software that has. I'm glad to put my name to this. Ali A.Rad: (ChistaSG) Yaroslav German: (AG) I think it's technology which works. Richard A. Nichols: (RANWare) Sudu Sankaran: (Hewlett Packard) Albert Topitz: (IMAGE Kommunikationsdesign GmbH) We are offering communications design to our clients. How else could that be achieved than by communication with our customers throughout the entire work process? Your approach is the only approach that makes sense in our area of business! Benjamin F. Lund: (BellCom Open Source) Stefan A. Sainiuc: Working software over comprehensive documentation is what I support most. David Corbett: This is a breath of fresh air. After more than 20 years developing software - the manifesto just feels right to me. Many of us have used these ideas surreptitiously. It's great to see them now being articulated and debated. Ning Yan: Believe that agile has the true values toward solving software engineering puzzles. Régis Baccaro: (KMD a/s) Process to the people ! Michael O'Brien: (Mbedthis Software) Mbedthis Software develops embedded web server platforms and solutions and has used Agile processes with great success. Combined with open source software, Agile is an excellent encapsulation of many practices that we have believed in for many years. We are delighted to add our support Stephen Peront: (Xinnovation, Inc.) I have lived these principals since early in my career. Chris McKinstry: (Mindpixel) Jeffrey P. Vasquez: (Dagmar Ate Tokyo) subramaniam Ramanathan: (http://sramanathan.bravehost.com) I have gone through the agile principles and completely accpect the principles, which is ture and same witnessed in my whole carrer. Hans Graf: (HIS Consultants) This is the most important initiative in the ara of software development ever. Victor Shalnyev: (NIX Solutions Ltd.) From my practice I see now that agility is the best concept for doing anything and not only for software development. It's time now to migrate from heavy and clumsy archaic methodologies to lightweight and agile ones because we are people which help people to do their business as people. Lasse Koskela: (Accenture) I just realized that I had never signed this manifesto myself. I definitely subscribe to the values of the agile manifesto. Daniel Quirino Oliveira: (USP) Harish Raghavendra: (http://harishr.bounceme.net) Agile programming is a breath of fresh air to the slow and procedure driven programming for completion of projects. I definitely want to follow and adopt it to my style. Julias Shaw: (ThoughtWorks) Bill Knapp: (Technology Servants) Praveen Reddy1. Jawwad Farooqi: (Techno Beavers Limited) These 12 "commandments" speak for themselves. I don't see any two ways about it. Kai Virkki: (Efecte) The agile manifesto has really put into words the thoughts about software development I've had in my mind for a long time. It's great to see that agile methods are gaining popularity also in Europe these days! Jay Jackson: (makeitcomplete.com) To live and die by. Scott Delcore: (SAIC) Anil Pathak: (Penumbra pvt ltd) :-) Joseph Butson: (http://www.josephbutson.com) It's an attitude! It's about people! It's about time! For too long, too much effort and money have been squandred chasing the next best thing. A more transparent, honest and democratic approach to software solutions does not yet exist. If it isn't an agile approach, don't even bother. Craig Kaucher. Vlad Lubarda: (Sybari Software) Pascal Rulfi: (Windsoft sa) Shyam Jandhyala: (Sundaram Infotech Solutions) Amaury Pinto de Castro Monteiro Junior: (Companhia de Sistemas) Joseph C. Fung: (http://www.josephfung.com) Jason Chen: (National Central Univ. Taiwan) I support the agile manifesto from the bottom of my heart. As a matter of fact, I have developed an agile method of my own based on extreme programming. The method is to be taught in the freshman class here in Taiwan. Through the education, I believe that we can make a better software industry - and a better tomorrow for us all. Marek Fiala, MAF: (LCS International a.s.) As the System Architect of LCS Noris Information System. I follow the Agile Manifesto and I fully prefer good agile practices. Jon Egil Strand: Software professional (MSc), Oslo. Database, web-application, datamining and statistical learning. Vance McCorkle: I've converted from waterfall to swine. Be it fad or new religious zeal, applying Agile Software development techniques along with SCRUM, has brought about resounding success to our org. Melissa Appleby. Nikolay Kolev: (Portellus, Inc.) The only way to bring future closer. Luri Darmawan: (KIOSS Project) At each milestone, we enhance and refine the software based on feedback and input, stakeholders and developers -- along with the results of testing and diagnostics code. This approach results in better end products that adapt to changing specifications and meet overall expectations. Claude Monnard: (windsoft sa) After reading Kent Beck's "XP explained", all I wished was to try XP... Now we tried it for some projects, that were all successful. Agile methods are a great and valuable way to develop good software !! fadil Boudjenane: (Algeria - France) Agile Methodologies is a step in the right direction to face the IT demands --> agility. I personally experienced two offshore projects using a methodology inspired from Agile Software Development and RUP. The both of them were a success project. BAKUL . Vittal. Anton Dimov. James Johnson: (Xerox Information Management) Brijesh Choubey: (Indigo Architects) I support the Agile Manifesto as in current world where time to market is critical and had maximum influence in any project development lyfe cycle. I myself has worked on such project and i feel its one of the better methodology of software development. Marco Paone: (Government) I think this the future of sw development processes Ace Jones: Rock on! ILVER ANACHE PUPO: (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicada (UPC)) It´s a right approach to focus in constructing and delivering the right software in an agile way to the customers Andrew Gause: (WDS) Clearly, agile is the most sensible approach to efficient software production today. Demetrius Nunes: (Interface TI Ltd) Agile is the way to deliver good software if you're smart and nimble. Steve Henderson: (Acxiom) Jonathan Roberts. Jeyakrishnan Ramakumar. Gabriel Gasparolo. Medhat Helmy: (Protegra Technology Group) According to Plato’s Republic, everyone in the state should be responsible for decisions taken. Although everyone should participate, the ones who rule are the philosophers. And by "philosopher" Plato meant someone who is a lover and searcher for wisdom but he knows he will never reach it. That's exactly what the agile methodology tells us. Every team member is responsible for the delivery of the project; everyone should be very dynamic and continue improving the solution, the team and even the process itself. The methodology focuses on the fact that there is no absolute solution for all problems. No process is the best suite for all projects. Every project is different because of different clients, teams, technologies, domains etc. To me the word "Agile" in software is synonymous to the word "Wise" in life. DUMOULIN Michel: (OTIS) Project Manager - France Luciano Passuello: (Simplus Projetos e Tecnologia) Oliver Irlam: Whether developing software, or designing systems and network architecture, simplicity and collaboration have always resulted in success. I am proud to add my name to the list of signatories to the Agile Manifesto. Emilio Costa Giomi: (IBM) Change is possible! Ray Schweighofer: (LiquidHub, Inc.) Agile Approaches work hand-in-hand with Service Oriented Architectures toward the continuous improvement of IT Economics. Ted Gaunt. Nathan Cornillon. Clifford Johnstun: (Silver Star Consulting) Finally a concise statement of software development principles that makes sense. Having just survived a SEI CMM Level 3 DOD project (Nightmare), I'm pleased to see that others share my disgust with those who put process ahead of everything else. David Griffiths: (Leicestershire County Council) Agile methods affirm that principle precedes process and that the true value of an organization is in the interactions of its people. John Weathington: (Xlint Software Consulting, Inc.) Embracing change is probably the single most important lesson any software development professional can learn. Agile methodologies are the most responsible way to develop software solutions -- period. Duane Blanchard: (dlb Linguistic Services) Gene Pope. Martin Salias: (Salias.com.ar) Agile principles embody and make clear the practice of what I've doing (or trying to do) over more than twenty year as a developer and team leader. Mary S. Marrero: Excellent! Jere Krischel: (KPIT) The funniest thing about this is that any project that truly succeeds is using agile methodologies, even if they're not calling it out. Rana Singh: (Global Softech, Inc.) Agile Software development has been found to work best for the innovative companies particularly startups. Darren Scarfe: (VI Engineering Inc.) Arvind W. Kiwelekar: (IIT-Bombay) Francis Shanahan: (http://www.FrancisShanahan.com) Recognizing that software engineering as a skill and in some cases an art and not a commodity. Ravi Shanker: I have been practicing the Agile way of developing applications and products and have found it to be very effective. Although it becomes frustrating for my team to accept changes but following organizational goals we have to do it. I am able to deliver large projects in the shortest time possible with scarciest of resources by this method. Mohammed Seyam: (Faculty of Computers & Informatics) I'm writing my Master thesis on "Agile methodologies in IS Development". It'll be great if i can find help from you. Mark Pettit: The agile manifesto is great set of principles that can help us as developers, architects and project managers, meet the challenge of delivering software to constantly evolving requirements. From this point on, we need to consider how to build systems, that once deployed can also embrace constant evolution. Klaus Merx: Muehlhausen (Kraichgau), Germany Atul Kamat: (Visionael Corporation) Michael James: (ScrumWorks) We subscribe to these values at our own company and those we advise. Jim Kaupanger: (Facilitation Enterprises) Sunil Kejariwal: (SoftwareWorkshop.Net) The Manifesto says it all. In the world of software so much is being made of Processes and Tools - this Manifesto is a refreshing change. Not surprisingly, thats what's working for us and our clients. Treat your customers as your collaborators, treat change as fundamental to software evolution - from concept to delivery, and you have a winning picture. Eric Sedor: (Blue Collar Objects) I first experienced XP in (approx) 1986 working in a large consulting group on a Smalltalk engagement. Ward Cunningham and Alistair Cockburn were involved as project coaches & mentors so I had a chance to hear many of their ideas first hand. At the time, I believed that these techniques would be universally accepted quickly. Much to my surprise, BDUF waterfall engagements continue to be commonplace for very large projects and with large consulting groups. At this point, there are many developers and architects on board but still few project managers. Project Managers can accept continuous software integration and working software as the primary measure of technical progress. However, Project Managers cling to the BDUF waterfall (via early spec lockup & change control) as a technique to manage the client (not the technology) ... to state the obvious, if every little spec change has potential additional costs to the client, the clients will pay more attention to protect their wallet ... project managers know how to use this lever & don't know how proceed without it. As a practical matter, most of the time, this stuff is in the contract. AGILE has advanced to the point were there is a sustainable mass of technical folks on board & there are plenty of willing customers, but still not enough project managers. BDUF will always exist but now, so will AGILE! However, we need to more project managers; they need to see a way to manage (in an AGILE environment) many (client’s) very human tendency to never decide anything until the absolutely last minute. Great progress! Any ideas? ganes: (Rynet Cipta Tenology co.ltd) good job keep it stick together team Kyle Gabhart: (Gabhart Communications) I have found tremendous value for myself and my customers by employing agile methodologies. I look forward to the continued development and refinement of our trade. Suresh Jeyakumar: (KenPeople Technology Pvt Ltd) Neil Henry: (TheraSense, Inc.) Delighted to find a community of like-minded operating folks. I have defined and implemented many of these principals from the Product management/Definition side with success across IP Networking systems, eCommence Platforms & Services and Medical Devices. John King: (Raytheon) Quite simply - it works! Brian Egge. David Laffineuse: (Bosch Security Sytems, Inc.) Cicil K Abraham: I very much support agile manifesto . I think requirement changes in later stage of development is to deal more with human chemistry than processes . Lassi Immonen: These principles I will keep in high value. Thomas Krantz. Korki Whitaker. Pablo Cipriani: (TEDINCA) Kwan Tan: Have been working with a modified version of eXtreme programming methodology in the last three years. The software development environment is evolving and people are also changed in a positive way. During the improvement phases, many difficulties bubble up reflected from company acquisition impacts (3 times in 5 years), the outcome and learning experiences are still very valuable and many funs. The agile manifesto does describe majority of the high values that I have experienced with. One thing to continue learning about is how to manage a required front design first software development step (like architecture). It may be hard but doable given existing and currently technology. Marcin Zduniak: (Zduniak IT Group) David Johnson: (Dimensional Control Systems) Our development team has been following these principals for some time and I am glad to see others agree. Andrei Maxim: (http://www.andreimaxim.ro) Pranav Kumar: I really liked the concept of the development process. It makes out the best from an indivisual and adds value to ones picture. Gibson Chimukoko. James Billingham: (IBM) I have worked on many large dev projects and its always the change introduced late into the development cycle that causes the most pain. Any manifesto that fosters the efficent handling of change sounds good to me! On the question of communication a more intelligent person than me said - 'Communication is only possible between equals' - technical people who create a 'guru' aura and refuse to work in a team only hinder a project (apart from the odd time when they answer an obscure technical question, although they never tell anyone where they got the information from ;-)). John Wagner: (AgileThought) The people who sponsor/fund software development projects already believe strongly in these principles. They want to be more involved in the development process. They want to see working software early and often. Now we just need to convince the "old school" IT manager types to let go of their waterfall workplans and let the developers and the business sponsors create great software together, iteratively. Embrace Change! Yeradis P. Barbosa Marrero: (Y-Soft) Cuban programmer Conch Chow (Shankhabrata Chowdhury): (SIEMENS) Harsh Thakar. Alberto Corona: (ObjectWave Corp.) At ObjectWave we believe and promote the Agile aproach to software development: - Simplicity - Deliver frequently - Respond to changes - Work with motivated individuals - Customer collaboration - Meet the customer needs Catalin Hritcu: ("Al. I. Cuza" Univ. of Iasi) walter Idem: I am a Java programmer who would like to harness my skills to higher advantage. John Gordos: I agree completely! We've become lost in process, and consequently, that drives up prices, and devalues individual skills. Ram Dongre. Buks Hanekom: (Kwikpay) Jeff Brown: (Advertising.com) Kiran Kaukuntla: (http://www.kiranreddys.com) I strongly support and believe in agile process. Michael Scudiero: Amen. Paul Guyer: This is how it ought to be done! John Kavanagh: From structured code to structured design, from structured analysis to Information Engineering, from Ed Yourdon to Tom Demarco, from James Martin to Clive Finkelstein, from JAD to RAD to XP. Where will it end? Dan Schrimpsher: (Applied Data Trends) I use it. I love it. It has made my coding more productive, more fun, and easier to upgrade André Lara de Moraes. Andres Calvińo: (TCS) I find very interesting the fact that for me these statements are the only reason that make software development a funny thing to do. Arvind Handu: (Datavibes, inc.) Narayana.D: (http://www.valtech.com) Delightful to find a methodology which simple and robust. Frank H. Ritz: (Software Engineering Ritz) Agile methods are less about software construction or software engineering and more about humans working together and communicating. Effectiveness - do the right things; Efficiency - do things right. No matter what field you're in, there's something to learn here. saad rehmani: TDD delivers results. Steven Bonacorsi: (George Group) I am a Senior Consultant and Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. I have been propoting Agility practices for the past 2 years. I have learned that the Lean Six Sigma Quality tools (vs. the methodology) can be very useful in helping teams learn how to conduct VOC (Voice of the Customer) and VOB (Voice of the Business) requirements. Other tools that have been very useful have been FMEA (Risk Analysis), Pugh Matrix (Solution Selection Criteria tool), and QFD (Quality Functional Deployment) in prioritizing critical customer requirements. Rodrigo Falcó: Im convinced that agile methodologies are the best approach for developing quality software(functional, in time & budget, simpler to use/mantain) Mylene Trasmanas. Rob Machin: (Concise) As an industry we always seem to make the same mistakes. And so many software programmes still seem to slip into “Waterfall” practices and the same old difficulties. There is no silver bullet… However, by adopting and applying the practices outlined in the Agile Manifesto, particularly: - Collaborative working (proximity and involvement) - Clear prioritisation - Visual modelling - Rapid & iterative working practices - Clarity on what we are doing and change control - Best use of Tools and tool best practices - Linking scope & features to cost & value We can deliver a step change in our project success ratio Vinod Panicker: (Wipro technologies) Ajit Dubey: (http://www.ajitdubey.blogspot.com) David Chiang: (Avenue A | Razorfish) Utilizing Agile has completely changed the way our clients have delivered their own internal projects. As a team, we have been able to consistently over-deliver on our inital committments throughout all our projects. Our clients have been able to embrace the rewards and grow as an internal organization after working with us. This has aided our recognization with the client as a true partner. Sam Owen: (ThoughtWorks) Markus Hjort. Robert Moskal: (Most Media) The manifesto describes the attitude and practices that make for successful software development. Take it to heart or learn through bitter experience! Dave Waterworth: (Richards Bay Coal Terminal) It's refreshing to find a voice for the principles I've tried to live up to in my development career. I find that technology is too often chosen as the vehicle with which to drive the process, rather than the reverse, which should be the case. Developers need to deliver the simplest and most appropriate solutions to the customers' functional requirements. Coray Seifert: (Large Animal Games) Great community you guys have here. Keep up the great work! Cindy Sanders: (Novell, Inc.) Deven Tolia: (ThoughtWorks India) I have practically zero experience in the IT Industry, in fact I am still in college.However, I have gone through training in Agile and XP methods, and that coupled with my reading has enhanced my confidence in these. The most important feature is the lack of bureaucracy.If this is ever compromised on, I fear that we will lose our effectiveness. Shashi K. Sopirala: (Software Imaging Ltd) Best practice to deliver fast and effective project. Agile is great to apply in to small companies. I support Agile development. Works out great. Guy Rutter: (Fabsec Ltd) The principles embodied by the agile philosophy are so natural when you work with them you realise this is the only way. Adopting the agile pholosophy as I set up the software development department for Fabsec transformed their experience of software development from one of late delivery and poor quality to one of timely delivery with greater than expected functionality. Mario Gleichmann: (MG Informatik) 'Process' is derived from lat. 'procedere', which means to move forward to a designated goal. Thanks for showing us such important values, which could guide us to a right, clear direction of software development........ (I also appreciate: common sense over stereotype, personal responsibility over management, trust over supervision) Mohammed Ansari: (ClearBrain Inc.) Gabriela Martinez: (Universidad TecMilenio) I, as a software development and project management teacher, find sometimes difficult to try to explain to my students that they must "follow" a plan and requirements, when I know from experience, that most of the times what you once analyzed is no loger accurate, because of organization changes. Ravindra: I am understanding Agile methodology and impressed about results seen by many. I have been using traditional development processes , now I look forward to change and embrace change... Joel Montijo: (Little Duck Solutions) Im co-owner of a new Software Co. We are just seven member's in the organization but, we support the Agile Software Development. I go to Academy Groups around my comunity for talking about the benefits of the Agile Software. Im just a rookie in the ASD, but i can make the diference. Masa K Maeda. David Chilcott: (Outformations, Inc.) Agile collaborative design and development is simply more effective. Antonio Reyes: I completely agree on the principles mentioned here. In fact, I have been uncovering and practicing these principles since I got hired by my company Norand Corporation, now Intermec Technologies, which is a leader technology provider for automatic data collection & identification projects. I work in the area of software developing & maintenance, and it is a fact that we are involved in a very competitive environment, working all around the Latinamerican market, and that we must drive our projects very agile, otherwise our clients are not going to take decisions on our favour Janete Pereira do Amaral: (Faculdade 7 de Setembro) Paul de Vries: (The Hague University) Good initiative the Manifesto! With AM a students quarter falls 10 times faster. Scot Weber. Rob Park: Agile processes are invaluable for producing better software. Agile makes sense and it's fun. Shubham Nagar: (InfoAxon Technologies UK Limited) We have been using Agile methodologies successfully with our Projects. Its nice to see a formal charter to support the methodology. Vincent Mulkowsky: Keeping it simple... Luis Melo: (FINIBANCO) Philipp Schumann: (mokka'logic Interactive) Kaustabh Debbarman: (Nokia) Its all about common sense! Markus W. Schneider-Kettiger: (Woodpecker AG) There is so much to do that we can't afford to lose time with bureaucracy. We have to change our way of thinking "wiki wiki" or mankind will disappear... Cory Foy: (http://www.cornetdesign.com) Joseph Pelrine: (MetaProg GmbH) There's agile, and then there's Agile. We were here first! Darin Archer: (http://www.darinarcher.com) It does not take 6 months and millions of dollars to build systems. David Wylie: (SolutionsIQ) Bhushan Buchade: (AG Technologies) Wolfgang Richter: I am currently (2004-?) writing a doctoral thesis about the relation between project management and agile software development methods. The work is based on my experience in participating and managing IT projects during the last 7 years. In my opinion the Manifesto describes the best, what software development is all about. Being flexible is one of the most important attributes of either an individual or a whole project. David Parry: (http://www.davidparry.com) Pick right tool right Job Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: (Wirfs-Brock Associates) Scott Goodin: (CP Ships) Marilson Campos - VP of Technology: (JP Morgan) Excellent way to provide structure without compromising innovation. Morten Mertner: (http://www.mertner.com/morten) William A. Flynn. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos: (Windfall Software) Eschew the "when in doubt, work on the process" software development methodology. MUSTAFA ESER: perfect realistic Gabriel Ciuloaica: (Intellisync) Hi, I'm in a learning and experiment period. I'm working to integrate the process in my team. Tim Purcell: (Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services) Jörg Kiefer: (objctive-partner) Edmond Meinfelder: The argument for Agile is obvious to any software developer who has or is suffering a dysfunctional development culture. How to transform an organization's culture is the problem. Suggestions are welcome. Mĺns Sandström: (Dynabyte AB) Clarke Ching: (http://www.clarkeching.com) Jan Snauwaert: (Information Quality Consulting) The quality of the (software) development - in ALL its aspects - seems a bit lacking to me in the Agile Manifesto, that, otherwise, I find very meaningful and intelligent. Zeeshan Azam: (University of Leicester United Kingdom) I really appreciate the activities of Agile software developments,and i'm supporting its manifesto . i also want to develop new and useful software which are more powerful and userfriendly than ever. As i'm doing my Master of science in Advanced software engineering from University of Leicester in United Kingdom.The teachings of this university is excellent than any of the university in the world. thanks. Lisandro: I'm interesting about taking more knowledge in this king of work. I'm administering some projects, but I want to know another methodology. Thanks a lot. James Bergman: (SEGH Corporation) I have been a software developer for and now architect for over 25 years. I started on PDP-11's writing assembly code, moved up through Fortran and C then C++. Most if not all of my past projects have been at banks. The applications were developed using a form of Agile development methodology where we communicate face-to-face on aspects of design and development. Documentation was always produced, in parallel, using technical writers. First and foremost was always the delivery of a high-quality product (mostly for selfish reasons since none of us like production support roles). Recently the edict is documentation before development. The reason this has become some important is that since many of the development tasks are performed overseas with low priced labor. You always get what you pay for. In my experience, if its not spelled out on paper for these overseas developers, it will not be done. A recent experience proved this point. Error checking was not performed because it wasn't spelled out in the documents. Agile is awesome! Alex Black: (the turing studio, inc.) We adhere to the sense of these documents for all of our client and internal projects. We've naturally found through experience that most if not all of these concepts are correct. Joakim Holm: (Valtech AB) Valtech (Software consultancy) in Sweden uses agile software development as a company standard from now on. Keep fuelling the agile movement people! Jorge L Mejia. Alessio Saltarin: (alessio@littlelite.net) Luis C. Uribe: (bahiasoftware.com) I couldn't agree more with the manifesto. Cut the red tape. It is really an acceptance that the usefulness of documentation has a limit and it always misses a large number of items that are only discovered during the development process. Agility and interaction with the user is what is needed, not increased processes, pre-development documentation and contract negotiation. Ben Arledge: (CommunityPal.com) Mohamed Shamri Ahafurdeen: (Informatics Group) With the rapid changing of Softwrae and Technology i assume that the Agile methodology would work. This method more focus on Customrs needs in a little time scale(Time boxing).So i personnaly prefer AGILE..... sisira: (RetailIT) I am interested in better analysis and design techniques with new ease of work Leonel Auilo Espinosa: (PETROBRAS) Eduardo Jose´Dorantes Becerra: (sigma tao software) Excellent methodology Andreja Jarcevski: I'm a BSc in Computer Science candidate, and I've come to greatly appreciate the Agile Manifesto. Marcello Pepe: (Tasker - Process, Project and Tasks Management) Every effort to bring more quality and more agility to software (and any project) development is also our main value. Udita Singh: (Tekcno Creations Ltd.) Most reliable , realistic approach in today's World. Dom Foulsham: (BrandTheory Ltd.) Customer driven performance and benefits over programmer objectives with people and relationships as the real objects of OOPS. Dom Foulsham Projects Director BrandTheory Ltd. John Gómez (Colombia). Mohamed Farouk Sherefudheen: Perfect Khairuddin Azizi Mohammad: (King's College London) I support Agile Manifesto Jesús David Cardona: (http://tesla.cuao.edu.co/docentes/jdcardona/doc/) Marjie Carmen: I've implemented many aspects of XP in previous companies with great and enduring success! Please add me to the list of people who support and believe in the Agile Manifesto. Wilbert. harsha: (ckg group) Sanjay: Agile/Effective Communication, Modeling & Development needs to be promulgated and practiced everywhere for the right reasons. They provide value to customers. William E. SAM. Diego Olivera: I think the code is better than the exhaustive documentation... code is the most real documentation! Paul McKee: (Applied Minds) We fully support Agile Software Development. Furthermore, we see the application of semantic anf reasoning technologies applications to be beneficial to the agile processes by allowing change in business requirements to be rapidly reflected in software solutions. Steve Moore. Horst Fischer. Liu Yan: (ICM China) James Andrews: (Re-Cog) Good pragmatic principles for problem solving and delivering solutions. :) Ramona Greenstein: I feel like I have just signed the 21st century's equivalent to the Declaration of Independence. Here's to more trust, interaction and collaborative software that works and carries us through the "age of information". Prashant Shetty: (Hewlett Packard) Programming is an art & not a process. We need more such initiatives. Charles Haines: (Bechtel Nevada) luis pauperio: (I2S ) Michael Soby: Important process I want to be better at for company support and success Paul Barry: Finally: the introduction of some sanity into the business of software development! Barýţ Gökberi. Srinivas Rowdur: (Cognizant Technology Solutions) I am working on agile for the last 3 months and I am very impressed by it. My client and my company are immensly benifited from it and I hope more people follow this new methodology to create better software Anders Wilhelm: (ERWE) Agile for all Remedy developers! Jason Edleman: (http://members.cox.net/thejman/) Chris Tun: (SolidKode Solutions) Django Bliss: (BlissTek) I wish more people in software took this kind of development to heart. Here's hoping more developers and organizations do in the future. Marco Cardoso: Excellent approach. Keep up the great work. Alexander John Batyi: (BuxCom.Net) I have have had a project manager refuse to let me speak directly to a customers technical people while the customer was preventing their techs from speaking directly to myself thus postponing a successful integration into the customers system for months. I could go on for pages about documentation, hard clad software specs., isolation environments, and various cart before the horse requirements. But the biggest advantage I have seen due to an Agile environment is a better product resulting from ideas passed back and forth between the customer and the coding team. Not creeping featurism, but little details either from the customers experience with the product or the coders experience with similar human interfaces and such. I fully support the promotion of these concepts as explained in the Agile Manifesto. Philippe Back: (High Octane SPRL) Processes and tools are important to serve individuals and interactions; Working software delivers value, documentation helps the next team; Customer collaboration over contract negociation but contract must exist; Responding to change because nobody can think about everything up front. Jurij Orehar: (PS Merctor, d.d.) Jason Fried: (37signals) Tristen Langley. Magnus Mĺnsson. Jonathan Cook: (Valtech) In the UK, Valtech represent an oasis of people that believe in Agile and deliver against it's principles daily. Tel: 020 7014 0842 Ibrahim Uludag: (http://www.ibrahimuludag.com) Ian Brandt: (ianbrandt.com) I've been a proponent of Agile Development since I read the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck in late 1999. The methodology struck a deep chord with me, and I've been happy to witness its growing acceptence over the years since. Here's to working smart! Srinivas B T: Fantastic concept of making the client and developer interact intimately! Bob Costello: (cgi-ams) Kiran Jonnalagadda: (Seacrow) I have no previous experience with the Agile process (though I've been aware of it). I happened to find this site today, and your four points make a lot of sense with what I've observed in working with teams. Lasse Lilja: (Within) Nice that emergent facts experienced by all true experts are given a name to preach about Tara Simpson: (Instil Software Ltd) Have we finally got over the early adopter stage of agile development? I certainly hope so, but I fear that too many organisations continue to waste too much money, time and energy valuing the right hand side over the left. And many of those that do, are lead by people who are not today, nor have they ever been, practioners of the craft - if they were, then surely they would have the common sense to listen to those who speak most eloquently for the rest of us. Michal Safranek. A Aravind: (HCL Technologies) I have been involved in building teams and running projects. I have used most of these principles that are listed as 'agile' Great to see people get together to push people over process in this time of getting CMM or ISO certifications. Good job on putting some of those team interactions into concise writing. Robert Stone: These are wonderful concepts! I hope that more people view this and that it catches on in the development community. Cheers! Robert T. Stone. Sebastien Guimont: This is the way we should develop software in the 21st century. Xavier Escudero Sabadell: (Opentrends) Anders Lentell: (Dynabyte AB) Nikhil V. Kapre. Juan Pablo Martínez: (Juan Pablo Martínez) Phillip Calçado Vilar de Souza: (http://www.fragmental.com) Taiwo Akinisho: (http://tiwiex.virtualave.net) we developed a softwar in my office and it was a great success considering the time of development. the development team were not bonafide computer scientists. an artist, physicist and an electronics major. we did this the way we could. responded to changes as they happened and bingo we had a functional software in 2 weeks. i thought we had done it all wrong until i stumpled onto the agile manifesto. i feel much better now. we were naturals. Jeroen Schalken: (Everest) Knowledge is the essence in developping software for our clients. This manifesto explains our succesful way of working. Jennitta Andrea. Andrew McDonagh: As a huge proponent of agile (and XP in particular) I have and hope too, continue extolling their virtues. debby. Celio Santos: (Alliance Technical do Brasil) We are commited to collaborate with our customers, responding to his needs with changes, providing a software that really works for them, creating more value for our industry and enabling our customers to go forward, following the ideas of this manifesto Claes Cramer: It's easy to sign a manifest wherein the people (both suits and blue-collar nerds like me) are favored and seen as the primary source for delivering robust and working software. Moreover, the view where the participants are allowed to make changes when needed instead of the old-fashioned and plan-driven processes where the requirement is looked and frozen before any design and actual implementation takes place is truly worth signing up for. I should have signed this as soon as I begun using XP back in 2001 but I guess I've been busy enjoying score cards, unit tests, pairing and many fun refactoring happenings! Carl Garcia: (Puritysoft) Not only does it make sense in business, it also makes sense in terms of innovation, evolution and onshore opportunities. Vaibhaw Poddar: During my education days I always learnt that software development and management was a art not a science. But all the tools and methods available out there made me feel otherwise. Agile has brought back the Art into Process of Software Development Daniel Reyes. roland baeslach: lifelong learner by doing David Giglio: (Rise Up) Luciano Kalisewski. Michael M Huang: (NSCA) Timothy Karoli: It works!!! Jeff Foster: (Dynamic Aspects) William Flow: Process is not just my business but every coder or QA'er worth his/her salt Tarang Patel: When I first read about Agile methodology, for me it simply stated some of the things I'd found worked best for me. I've been fortunate to have worked intimately with few customers who value individuals and working software. Really when collaboration trumps adversarial interactions every one wins in time. An analog of Agile is that in nature one observes things seemed to be designed, contructed and contracted if you will with simplicity/utility in mind - no one sat down to write the documents first. This is the beauty of the Agile manifesto. Piotr Muszynski: (http://piotru.org) It's the second year since I joined an agile team and I didn't look back. Work is efficient and fun. Your ideas are so natural, I feel I knew the pieces instinctively before. Rijk Ravestein: (Datraverse B.V.) Rudolf-Paul Poels: supporting wholly and fully mark jones. mahmoud helal: (Intracom) Enrique Pérez Gil: (http://www.terra.es/personal/epgawt/openode.htm) It is my hope to reach the level of power to be able to try to apply the rules we agree there where I work. Essentially I do believe it can be done, althought I guess a lot has to be done yet, looks a bit like changing from Windows to Linux... ONORA, Tetsuro. Troy Zimmerman: (UBS (O'Connor)) Michael Spayd: (Cogility Consulting Solutions, LLC) Geez, I guess I'm slow. Who knew you could still sign at this late date :) ?? DaShaun Carter: (OpenJack LLC) Brian Turner: (BlackBox Insurance Consultants) The Agile Manifesto is quite simply the easiest most efficent methodology I have used Michael John Mierzykowski: (MJ Mierzykowski & Company, Incorporated) Primarily interested in SQA Related Topics as it applies to Agile Methods. Michele Smith: (Metagy Ltd.) We have used DSDM since 1996. We have lived and breathed the Agile Principles again and again (even before we knew they were the Agile Principles!) The benefits have been enormous: strong collaborative teams, satisfied customers and software that meets the business need and actually gets used. The Agile manifesto makes some deceptively simple statements that are in action remarkably powerful practices. Tomasz Gajewski: That's why I enjoy my programming again! Rob Rowe: (Fusion Labs) Richard Beauchamp. Alejandro Bedini. Umesha Balasubramaniam. Naim Imami. Deirdre Saoirse Moen: (http://deirdre.net/) As a long-time software developer, I've always wanted to see my software actually used. Which meant that I've always wanted to accommodate the needs of the client I was building the system for, even if their management didn't really understand why their workflow wasn't working. Finally, after years of "we're following the plan" thinking, I'm glad to hear that there's other people out there who share the values I have long held -- but not articulated. Palmer˛: Electronics Communications Consultant The way things should be done. Jon T. Ilko: (BrandMuscle Inc.) Carlos Damian Estrada Chavez: I belive in the agile software, I belive in the human, in their systems. Stephen James: (dev7 media) Tuan Anh Nguyen: (AAU) Davide Panelli: (Byte-Code) Muthu Raman S: I value the innovative approach of Agile Software Development. It would add another layer of creative mechanism to the ever evolving field of Software Development. Roel Simons: (Conclusion ICT Projecten) Vishal Shah: The methodology that management and business contacts must trust and follow more than developers. It then, surprisingly, works for all and in a wonderful way. vishal. <http://goldenv.blogspot.com> <http://vishalshah.org> Antonio Franzese: (Retis) Analysis does not compile... Michael Nenn: (Serco Group, Inc.) Andreas Kress: (HOOD Group) Agree ! Garrett Smith: (http://garrettsmith.net) I've done waterfall and I've done Agile; Agile is the way to go! Tony Campbell. Yilong Teng: i will try my best to keep my team agile Daniel J. Power: (DSSResources.com) Franz. Giuliano Jordăo: (G-Zero Tecnologia) Macneil Fernandes: (Caritor India) I support the agile alliance manifesto because it supports working iteratively on a project and addressing defects on different granularities. It thus gives benifits to both the customer as well as the developer. Sunil Kumar: I am a developer working for a well-known MNC. I have never practiced agile approach to development, though have done some test-driven development. My main objective is to improve myself to deliver results using aglie approaches. Pierpaolo D'Aimmo: (http://www.daimmo.it) A student that wants to become a good manager. Bahman Koohestani: The most valuable asset in any team is its ability to respond to change quickly. David Collins: (Basequote Ltd) You know it makes sense. Mael Caldas: (JFarm) I tried to learn software development before, and, only now, by following the Agile way, I believe software development can be productive! Thanks for open my mind! Reto Jeger, Switzerland: (http://www.reto.com) For years, I have developed software by primarily taking care of my customers (not necessarily academic processes). And I made sure - together with my clients - that the final product worked. The mutual trust between my clients and me was the best sucess factor in all of the projects. Whereas, whenever a legal attorney defined technical deliverables the project failed miserably... Now, I just found out that this common sense has a name: The Agile Software Development Manifesto. I strongly support your manifesto! Dean Wampler: (Aspect Programming) Ashoka Ekanayaka: If one is to summarize decades of human experiance in software development and practical wisdom im few lines, one would arrive at something very similar to Agile manifesto. Probably the best and most important thing about XP/Agile is that that it make sense. William Hurley: (whurleyvision) Mary Bennett. Luis Salazar: (Intergrupo) Jayakanth "JK" Srinivasan: (Lean Aerospace Initiative, MIT) From both the academic and the practitioners perspective Agile approaches make sense. There is a significant challenge that remains in institutionalizing these principles within extant software enterprises - the next decade is going to be very exciting either through evolution or revolution Obi Oberoi: (Paree Labs Inc.) As I see today, bigger software companies are evangelizing on the importance of Agile Software development using methodologies like Scrum etc. This will definitely revolutionize the software industry in the way the software is managed, developed, tested, used and released. Go Scrum Go! Tim Haughton: (Agitek) Chief Methodologist at Agitek. Agile development practitioner and coach since 2001. Mikko Sahlbom: (Finmill Microsystems) For my experience, when adopted and executed, this simply works. I salute this Agile Manifesto and its founders! Brian Takita: Agile development encourages us to remove the overhead of cumbersome processes and software-based religion and think for ourselves. Thus, a humane culture is fostered in the software development industry. This makes us, and those around us, more effective and will continue to do so in the future. Prateek Babel: (BOSCH) This is truly an better methodology of software development over the conventional project execution processes. Kevin Leier: (tao interactive) Rob Selvage, PhD: (US Dept of Education) Amend! Richard Jonas: (http://www.btinternet.com/~rjonas) The main difficulties with developing software seem to be with customers having one idea of what things should look like, and not communicating their vision clearly to developers. It's not always easy to do this in a formal project specification, and requirements can change. When customers and developers can work more closely together, frequently showing them the software in its current state of development, customers can have more confidence that development is progressing, and developers know what they are doing is likely to meet the customer's needs, and can adapt if necessary. Putseys Henri: (European Commission) James Liao: (Digitware System Integration Corporation) All these light me up ! satish: (ITTI Private Limited) Alex Toney. Derek DeRaps: (Georgia Institute of Technology) A combination of Ruby on Rails and Agile Development have made my development dreams come true! Luz G. Sánchez: (CAMBIOTEC) Tito Mari Francis Escańo: For successful software development and deployment, commitment to relevant software solution excellence is vital. Carlos Arturo Castro Castro: Me parece una propuesta muy pertinente teniendo en cuenta los reqrimientos de hoy día en cuanto a la velocidad y flexibilidad sin detrimento de la calidad Matt Davey: (Finetix) In the fast ever changing world of developing financial applications, the Agile Manifesto offers key points for the success of software development. Ranjit: (Accenture) I was deeply impressed by agile modelling practice and am starting to following them in my current project. Max Dykstra: (http://www.maxdykstra.com/programming.htm) The world is a dynamic place. So are customers. So you should be also. Barry Miller: (University of Alaska Fairbanks) I am a programming newbie, and the philosophy defined here is exactly where I want to go in a team development environment. Agile theory appears to be consistent with open systems theory, in that embracing collaborations, connections, and change diffuses entropy and promotes collective integration and growth. Way cool! Eberhard Wolff: I thought I signed it but I didn't. I really strongly believe these values should be followed and I wished they were followed more. Wagničres Michel: (Brainsoft Informatic AG) Kai Jie, Neo: (NUS SOC) I support the Agile Manifeto! Johnny Vartiainen. Praveen Guggarigoudar: (http://www.praveensg.com) I have had the privilege to work on several different software development methodologies over a considerable period of time. However, I should say that only the Agile methodology has made the most sense and has given what my project, my product and my organization as such have needed the most: Results. Yes, results. With other methodologies, it might sound funny, but getting actual results is almost a dream come true. Even if we manage to get results, the turnaround time to achieve them is too long. But with Agile, it has been surprisingly short. Another area that Agile scores over other methodologies is its acknowlodgement of change, especially during the later stages of the project. With other methodologies, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to accomodate changes very late in the project life cycle. Thanks to the Agile team for giving us such a wonderful methodology. Dave DeCaprio: (MIT) John Wilger: (http://johnwilger.com) mahesh manthapuri: (vedams software solutions vt limited) Rob Lambert: (Zabada Technology) Greg Lindstrom: (Novasys Health) Shaji Venugopal: full support for agile software development Mark Rance. Mathias Meyer: (ASDIS Software AG) I'm fully supporting and helping to spread the spirit of Agile software development. It's _the_ way to work effectively as a team and to deliver successful projects to customers, and in a way that satisfies the customer's needs. jaipal vallabhaneni: its a comunity work Douglas Clinton: (Greycourt Software Ltd.) Lizet Pena de Sola: (The Nice Web) I welcome/support the Agile Manifesto. David Mendes: (Promosoft DS) Our team is starting to implement an SOA ESB using AD over RUP based on these principles which I have come to value Staffan Liljegren: (Senior ICT consultant) Many years ago a read a SW Engineering book which used a division between SW projets as the Romans would do it and as the Greeks would run things. It was the first on-the spot book in this area. So of course I deeply value the four cornerstones of Agile Software Development Martin Olson: (Visionpace) Dave Milner: (Apollo Group, Inc.) As a software engineer with 15 years of experience, I have seen the pitfalls of waterfall methodologies and top-heavy processes. I have participated in death march projects, and have been on some small teams that defied the odds and overcame obstacles to produce quality products in spite of limitations. The tenets of the agile manifesto are solid and work. When you think about it, software really has no value outside of the context of helping people. That's why I wanted to sign this and promote the agile manifesto. Terry Hampton: FINALLY !!!!! Some common sense in the over-hyped, over-dramatized universe of process management and software development. What a great breath of fresh air amidst the stagnant rhetoric of staid methodologies and preachy process platitudes. Arnaud Meuret: (FOREVERSAFE.COM) Travel light and happy on the road to technical excellence well-equipped with these rejoicing principles. Ed Pimentel: (AgileCO) raji: (AMI) Drumil. Messaoud OUBECHOU: (OCTO Technology) Abelmon Bastos: (Supernova) I'm applying XP in game development (looking eXtreme Game Design) with agile modeling. I can see the better results coming (project manage with risk analysis) and making the client understand what he want. Hriadel Gabriel, Dipl. Ing.: (Slovakia) Keith Sterling : (Keith Sterling Consulting Services Ltd) Aric Aune: (General Mills) An Agile way of working makes so much sense, that it almost seems like common sense. Rollo Sicoco: I support the Agile Manifesto. It defines what is important in any development effort - to manage the spirit of the deal. The project's success is accomplished by working together in promoting expectations. Larry Boatman: (EDIGuys.net) The more I know, the boundary for what I don't know expands! Change, which is at the "heart" of knowing something, is the only constant! Greg Greiner. John Argo: Finally working the right direction. Dee Bishnu: (NIKE Inc) Silvina Danza. Louis-Rene Poirier: (E.T.S) If only there whas an Easy Button for making a software or tailoring a process. Until then, start small and get bigger only if needed. Choosing the right agile process is a big enought starting point. Louis-Rene Poirier Soft ing graduate student. BradWilson: (Microsoft Corporation) Marco Vaz. Vijay Anand. Bharat Malik: There is a very thin line between Agile development and Slip stream development style. Agile encourages service delivery and customer centric approach whereas SlipStream style focus on working in patches overlooking basics of software development, and this lead to delay as there are more threads leading to individual dependencies and hence delaying Service delivery which marks the core of It Services in todays highly dynamic scenario. One thing i learnt over the period of time working in SDLC environ is Business Involvement and Communication which i think would be best explored by this style. So for me AGILE methodology supersedes all traditional approaches that were been used in the past. Aaron Marten: (Microsoft Corporation) Sudhir Hasbe: (Vakra Inc) I have worked with more than 55 customers in my career as a solutions architect. It seems that Agile model will fit very well in customer oriented projects. I have worked on so many projects where customers come just before go live and want to change the requirements. This sounds to be the solutions. Luis Carlos Aceves G: I agree with the principes of the Agile Manifesto. We have to develop with speed and quality to build better software products Denny Li: (Motorola) Strongly agree with Agile Manifesto from my experience of project management. Reza Ghaem Maghami: (Eagle Datamation International) This methodology is so amazing. Yury Kalnitsky: After all is said and done, the *only* thing that counts is the end result! Peder Halseide: (Better By Design ) cool_ice: (UnicSoft) Agile is a more practical idea and more practical method for software development! Raveendra Murthy: (Arisglobal Software Pvt. Ltd.) Matthew Pretty. Horia Chiorean: (ABISOFT) Michael J. Donnelly: (CommSoft Inc.) Simplicity and elegance - what a concept! Dimitri from Paris: (VMBC) New campaign new template for everybody. Good luck !!!! Devan Govender: (www.devan.co.za) Hao Zhai. John Ruberto: Customer satisfaction with our software is the primary importance. While processes, tools, documentation, and project plans should help acheive customer satisfaction, they are not ends into themselves. People who understand the customers needs working together build better software. Venkataraman: (Logica CMG) Ashok Singh: I agree to every word of it. Benjamin Smith: Wow. I don't think I could have said better what you espouse. I've been working towards this for years, spending effort and time to make the difficult easy and the impossible, possible - but you hit the nail on the head! I support, and do everything I can to write, agile software! Tomasz Andraszek: (http://andraszek.net) Dan Wilkinson: (Excella Consulting) I am interested in using the best techniques for project management and software development. Phil Bennett: (Mid-World-IT Ltd) Shahzad Bhatti: (PlexObject Solutions, Inc.) Agile development is only rational response to all software projects that are late, over-budget or simply does not meeting customer requirements. Mary Lang: (Comadrona Communications, Inc.) communicate || collaborate || innovate || execute || evolve David Ballantyne: (datanet design ltd) This is a natural extention from KISS Emmaxu: I have some experiences on XD (Extreme Delivery), one of Agile methodology. And I love it very much! I want to become one member of agile alliance. Can I? Irwan: (PT. GMN) I really appreciate this agile concept and practice Steven B. Levy: (Microsoft Corporation) Insanity, Einstein said, is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Applied appropriately, agile software development may help forestall insanity. Danie Roux: Agile Software Development is putting the trust back into the software industry. With trust, comes honesty. With honesty comes open channels of communication. Once you get there, you have a synergy where everyone wins. Jeff Nadler: (Silver Ridge Consulting Group) Ravichandhiran AK: (http://www.ondailylife.com) I strongly support and believe in continuously delivering working software and responding to events or change with customer satisfaction as highest priority. Victor Curalea: (Land Forces Academy "Nicolae Balcescu", Sibiu, Romania) I have developed a PHP based dictionary that one can access from a WAP compatible device using your principles. I am developing my dictionary continuously through interaction with my colleagues at the Academy and it is working great! Jacek Kosiński: (Polska KOrporacja Ubezpieczeń) Kelley Harris: (SourceCell) The more projects I see struggle, the more I see the wisdom and pragmatism expressed in the Agile Manifesto. Entrepreneurial stakeholders - heed the advice and prosper. Sanjay: (GSSPL- Ahmedabad) i do strongly believe in Agile Methodlogies and its priorized values over SDLC rat race. Michael Gillespie: (Agillence Software) Alireza Khallaghian: I am applying Agile Modeling and Extreme Programming in Enterprise Applications. Martin Fowler’s ideas has the greatest impact on my thoughts. I like the tone of Continuous Integration, Refactoring and Test Driven Development. I sign "The Agile Manifesto" on 11th of August, my birthday, to remember it and live with Agile throughout my development life. Matthew Downing: (e-actuate.com) Although I am a new comer to Agile, where there is smoke there is fire and Agile is HOT. Jeff Britton: (IT Linguistics Institute, Luxembourg) Aaron Korver. Markus Schramm: (compeople AG) Don Burdeyney ISP: (WingSpan Software Ltd.) Chris Fortuin: (OrangeFortune) Agile Rules! James Hill: (http://www.animehound.com) I see development as a process, not a cut and dry task-oriented flow. Respond to the customer, not the bottom line. If you keep the customer happy, there is no need to worry about the bottom line. Dave Aleksandrowicz: (PocketDevicesInc) I have met and worked with many developers who value the technology over the product being produced. The product and the customer must be the primary focus in order to be truly effective. Tom Cox: (Chicago Technologies Group, Inc.) There is finally a methodology that will quickly and accurately allow me to serve those who are most important -- the individuals of the organization. Mark Barnes: (Concise Limited) Steve Harding: (Concise Group Ltd) Keep the focus on the business project Ajay Danait: (Valtech India) Jose Luis Romero Camarena: (www.RomeroCamarena.com) Joseph Little: (Kitty Hawk Consulting) Fully support. Let us be careful not to become too popular a "buzzword", as poor "business process re-engineering" became. We still have much to learn (and to forget). Paul Foraker: (White Feather Software) Outstanding! Thank you. Ellie Skeele: (HImalayanTechies.) Thought I signed a couple years ago. Here's to an Agile Future! Brock Gunter-Smith: (CanadaDrugs.com) Luciano Basile: (A2S Infrmatica Ltda) Andreas Aderhold: I honestly can't think of doing software development the classical way again, ever. Varuna Bamunusinghe. Belal. Patrick Curtain: (SWDev, Co.) After years of teaching teams and observing the results, these principles match what i've found to work. Thanks for the concise and form and excellent community! Raymond J. Harrison, MD: (Scott and White Hospital) Author of the Sequoia Practice Management System. We have used the Agile model to develop an electronic medical record system and practice management system for hospital and regional clinics. We have bypassed the traditional development channels and have created a very short development loop between end users and developer(s). We sometimes call it the "two-stroke" Agile model (develop-use-develop-use...). Jack Krupansky: (Base Technology) Anything to make the customer happy, keep them happy, keep them coming back for more, and inspire them to encourage others to seek out your services. Diego Olivera. Roger L. Cauvin: (Cauvin, Inc.) As a product manager, I can attest to the value of agility in defining (and refining) the requirements for a product. Daren Martin: (inspired innovation) I was the IT Director at Egg, the UK internet bank for the last 4 years. I built and managed the only large enterprise Agile community in the UK, using parts of DSDM, XP , early RAD methods and the best practices of many of the software development leaders in my org. who could go back to waterfall processes agter the freedom of true Agile working !!! Adrian Bryksa. Stuart Donnelly: (Infinite Apps Limited) I guess I've been using Agile methods since before they were called Agile. The Agile movement is popularizing a great set of processes, tools and techniques for software development and I fully support that. However, experience tells me that the World isn't clear cut - I see Agile methods as an critical set of tools in any software development toolkit but they're not necessarily there on their own. James Velasco. GS Rao: I have constantly observed the different software methodlogies emerging over years and worked with many developers who value the technology over the product being produced. The product development and the customer must be the primary focus in order to be truly effective in delivering precisely what is expected in a timely incremental manner. This Agile methodology is of great help in software product delivery. Ricardo Bendoraitis. Tatiana Moruno. Charles Letcher: (Mountain Software) Jeff Fisher: (IntraPrise Solutions, Inc.) Finally, validation for the way we've been doing software engineering for years...and with many happy customers! M. Edward (Ed) Borasky: (http://borasky-research.net/) Michael Osuna. Garrett Wilkin: (Masterminds Unlimited) I am impressed with your posted values and whole heartedly support them. Technology is about the user, the human. Therefore is it necessary to use a development process that mor e closely reflects the human element. Steve Meyns. Thijs van der Vossen: (Fingertips) Domien Holthof. Maxi Reitz: (cromactiva) Loganathan: (Valtech) We are following the best agile practices and interested in exploring more about the same. Found this site gave me a good look around it. Jose Manuel Capaz Formiga: I bring into line and sign in absolute the terms of the manifesto. I see myself again in the quoted problems Rajeev Dixit: Agile development focuses on the individuals - Customers and Developers. Over the years, I have realised that ability to respond quickly while recognizing the fact that change is inevitable is key to successful software development. Malay N D: (IBM) This Software development methodology is the best way to match client expectations by delivering the right mix of requirements within the phased time frame. Mickaël Andrzejewski. Amy Larion. Pete Behrens: (Trail Ridge Consulting) The Agile Manifesto represents an evolution and maturity in software development that recognizes the human factors required for true innovation and quality. However, that does not make software development any easier - it is still a very unpredictable and complicated process. Recognize that agile transformation takes patience, experience and strong leaders. Petur Agustsson: (TM Software) Thomas Westerberg. Ritchie Grijaldo. Marcos Macedo. Philip A. R. Fennell: Customer collaboration and responding to change are the key factors in good customer relations. Chris Hudgins: (Gaslight Computing Machines LLC) Cody Shive: (The Arrington Group, Inc.) Traditional software development has failed. Forced processes, over-documenting, litigious negotiations and rigorous plans have conspired to create not only underwhelming software but a bad perception of the Information Technology industry as a whole. Customer Service took a back seat. The Agile Manifesto merely accepts a common sense approach to software development embracing our world of never-ending change. Process, communication, documentation, and planning are essential elements of balanced software development and delivery; but they are a means to an end: high quality software with phenomenal Customer Service. Richard Werner: (Apollo Group, Inc.) Wes Weeks: (AgileWise) James Naylor: Having managed many software development projects that almost as soon as they started turned into "out of scope discussions", I'm eager to apply the Agile methodology! Pradipta Guha. Alexey Kalmykoff: I Support the Agile Manifesto! Bill Kasper: (http://www.billkasper.com) Terse is good. Fabio Armani: (DIFFERENT LANDS) Agile development focuses on the individuals - Customers and Developers. I agree totally with that. Adarsh Kumar S: (Satyam) Greg Heck: (PSC Group LLC) Stephen Bobick: I advocate using Scrum, with a sprinkling of XP practices, and judicious use of Use Case Modelling and UML. The results have been phenomenal: better products, and a better working environment! Josh Hone. Rolly Dimaandal: The agile manifesto is plain common sense for developing useable software. You guys nailed it right on the head. Agile is the way to go! David Smith: Software development is development by compromise. Wake up to the agile world and smell reality! Ettore Berardi: (ack-ack.it) Italy Sachin Sharma: I am working as an analyst in the clienr centeric environment of a software development company. We have been trying hard to fulfill the customers expectations by using out of box methodologies but that didn't prove to be very fruitful.Thanks to the Agile methodologies,we have succesfully competed a project by truly beliving in the spirit of Agile Manifesto. I see a very bright future for the methodology as well as the people using it. David Petzel: Some people think that if 2 different groups of people use the same process, you will end up with the same results. Another way to look at it is if two basket ball teams practice all the same drills for the same time, the best they could hope for if they played each other is a tie. But we know this is not the case, because it depends more on the capability of the individuals on the team, and less on the type of drills. The same is true for software. A classic that should be read is “The Mythical Man-Month” by Frederick P. Brooks. I coined the saying “Does it generate revenue?” In other words, my daily activities must in some way generate customer sales. Because after all, this is how we get paid. Zvonimir Durcevic: (I-New Mramor) Communication, flexibility, goal oriented approach, but at most belief that people can and will do the job done, are some of the values and principles that Agile Methods brought to me. Supporting Agile Manifesto is supporting a way of doing the job with the customer for the customer. Let us deliver. Reinaldo Santos Jr.: (Aplinet Sistemas de Informaçăo Ltda.) Phil Lascelles: At last, an approach to development that has the user needs and therefore addressing the requirements understanding as a priority over technical elegence and ego. It might not "cure world hunger" but it will succceed where I have seen failure of custom projects again and again over my 30 years in this industry. The customer wins for once !! Christian Hellsten. Jason Punzalan: God bless the agile process! William Briggs: (Briggs Technology, Inc.) Shepard Towindo. Stephen Ocean: IT projects have historically had a very high percentage of failures. Many IT professionals have responded by trying to plan things in finer detail. All this results in is enormous efforts going into a specification that is frequently out of date the moment it is published. What's needed are better communication structures and methods, not more planning. Agile programming depends on frequent feedback loops that keeps project members in synch. Rajeev Vashista: I think this is the best idea ever struck in the software development arena. I am greatly influenced by your manifesto and principles Petur Orri Saemundsen: (http://pos.is/) I believe Agile values and principles will eventually be dominant in all software development. Simon ALEXANDRE: (CETIC) Working since almost five years in the field of software process improvement and assessment I strongly believe that Agile methods bring fresh air and innovative ideas in the SE field. Jan H. Hansen. John Dubach: (PIPC Global Project Solutions) Mike Reid: (SmartSimple Software Inc.) Satyanarayana N Allamraju. Javier Loucim: (BASF) First time ever that I read something that we at our work are also discovering and trying to build (an Agile Methodology). What I wanted to share with you, is that in our experience is not only important the relationships between people (developers and clients (that is different from a customer!)) but also is important the relationships and commitment to the method