Twenty years of agile

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Twenty years of agile

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Apr 8, 2021

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We talk to two of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto for Software Development — Jim Highsmith and Martin Fowler — to get their perspective on how the agile movement has evolved over the past two decades.

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Apr 8, 2021

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Twenty years of agile

Twenty years of agile

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