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Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship

As my good friend, Rick Garibay blogs, we still need to raise the bar.

"Unfortunately, we’ve also learned that too many individuals and shops have given Agile Software Development a bad name by using it as a fig leaf to hide behind delivering crappy software and calling it agile, further setting back software engineering as a mature discipline. 

As a result, our very own Bill of Rights has been born. The Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship is founded on the original Manifesto but raises the bar to eliminate any ambiguity around the expectations of professional software engineers to not only produce working software, but ensuring it is well designed. Not merely reactively responding to change, but strategically partnering with the business to proactively add value while building a community of professionals that can teach and learn from one another."

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  1. Umm avatar

    Raising the bar requires more than platitudes and getting one's self a bumper sticker. This site and effort are virtually meaningless.

    Umm — July 27, 2009 7:42 PM
  2. samgentile avatar

    Umm,

    That may be true but look at all the Agile Manifesto accomplished. I would have to say it changed the software industry such that Agile methodologies are now the norm.

    samgentile — July 28, 2009 6:50 PM
  3. Umm avatar

    The manifesto in all its lightweightedness didn't do anything besides posture. The progress around Agile comes from the actual practices and methods. Yes they derive from the philosophy but really it's just a throwaway first page to any Agile tome.

    Umm — July 28, 2009 8:44 PM

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