program selection system

In February of 2002 in Snowbird Utah, the Agile Manifesto was written. It was intended to be provocative, to cause upheaval in an entrenched system of thinking. It targeted the brave and few mavericks willing to let go of a myriad of software development security blankets and instead create value through new dynamics. It is now August 2008 in Toronto Ontario. Are we holding onto too constricted views of that 2002 statement in a way that could be holding us back from continued systems innovation?

We do agile in Japan. To some extent, at least. In this presentation, I’m going to introduce you communities in Japan centered around agile. Those communities played (and are playing) very important role to spread agile in Japanese software industry. Early days, they have been the window to cutting-edge agile activities in US and Europa. Many people loved, say, XP and tried to practice just to hit hard on obstacles. Yet they bring their failures to communities and discussed to learn from it. Communities also held offline events to let people meet each other.