In 1776, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, the sweeping doctrine of principles for a new United States. In 2001, Alistair Cockburn helped draft the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, the core tenets of a nascent project management movement. So who better to discuss the history and application of agile methods than Cockburn? Here's how he answered Projects@Work's questions about trends in agile development.
P@W: How widely are agile methods being used?
AC: Going back to 1998, there were just a handful of projects being done by people who didn't know they had anything in common. In 1999, Kent Beck published "Extreme Programming Explained,"











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