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name: agile-manifesto
version: "2001"
date: 2026-07-29
category: philosophy
title: Manifesto for Agile Software Development
language: en
type: full-text
kind: creed
license: verbatim-only
source_url: https://agilemanifesto.org/
notes: "The four values with the seventeen authors and the copying notice, per the notice’s own terms (free copying in its entirety through the notice). The Twelve Principles page carries no such notice and is therefore not shelved."
---

# Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

**Individuals and interactions** over processes and tools

**Working software** over comprehensive documentation

**Customer collaboration** over contract negotiation

**Responding to change** over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

- Kent Beck
- Mike Beedle
- Arie van Bennekum
- Alistair Cockburn
- Ward Cunningham
- Martin Fowler
- James Grenning
- Jim Highsmith
- Andrew Hunt
- Ron Jeffries
- Jon Kern
- Brian Marick
- Robert C. Martin
- Steve Mellor
- Ken Schwaber
- Jeff Sutherland
- Dave Thomas

© 2001, the above authors. This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.