Between the 11th and the 13th of february 2001, seventeen software practitioners got together to discuss and define a common, lightweight approach to software development. The result? This historical manifesto, which probably ranks in importance together with the original NATO conference that coined and defined Software Engineering, Royce definition of the waterfall development method, structured program design, Hoare axiomatics, Fagin´s software inspections and Carnegie Mellon´s Software Engineeering Institute Capability Maturity Model .
Between the 11th and the 13th of february 2001, seventeen software practitioners got together to discuss and define a common, lightweight approach to software development. The result? This historical manifesto, which probably ranks in importance together with the original NATO conference that coined and defined Software Engineering, Royce definition of the waterfall development method, structured program design, Hoare axiomatics, Fagin´s software inspections and Carnegie Mellon´s Software Engineeering Institute Capability Maturity Model .