Appendix A.1. The Agile Software Development Manifesto and the Declaration of Interdependence

As the Manifesto for Agile Software Development grew in significance, people wanted to know how to apply the ideas to projects outside software development, and also to distill out the general management principles involved. A dozen and a half product, project, and management specialists from inside and outside the software industry met over a six-month period to write the more general agile leadership version of the agile manifesto. Completed in January, 2005, they called this the Declaration of Interdependence, or DOI, and started the Agile Project Leadership Network.

In the following sections, I review the writing of the agile manifesto and discuss in more detail the DOI.

The Agile Software Development Manifesto and the Declaration of Interdependence

THE AGILE MANIFESTO REVISITED		381
THE DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE		384
	Understanding the DOI	385
	Using the DOI	389