In 2001, seventeen IT experts signed the Agile Manifesto. This text founded a new movement to empower software development teams. It proposes four fundamental and inalienable values:
In addition, twelve principles set out the operating modes common to the methods derived from this manifesto.
Traces of agility can be found as far back as 1992. Roger N. Nagel talks about it in a "21ST Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy Report" report.
The existing industrial era dominated by mass-production manufacturing is drawing to a close. It is giving way to a new era dominated by agile manufacturing enterprises. The Agile Manufacturing Enterprise Forum seeks nothing less than the revival of American competitiveness by adopting agile manufacturing strategies.[1]
The origins of this approach lie in adhocracy, conceptualized by Bennis and Slater in 1964, and in the modular structure proposed by Leblond and Paquet in 1988.[2]
But every innovation is based on a progressive construction that has enabled it to become what it is. Agility is in the process of changing habits and behaviors and the way we think about collective work.
Agile projects have higher success rates. A study by PWC indicates that Agile projects are 28% more successful than traditional projects.[3]
[1] 21ST Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy Report - January 1991 - Roger N. Nagel - Lehigh University https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235112061_21ST_Century_Manufacturing_Enterprise_Strategy_Report
[2] The origin of agility long before the Agile manifesto - My Agile Partner Scrum https://blog.myagilepartner.fr/index.php/2017/10/05/l-origine-de-l-agilite-bien-avant-le-manifeste-agile/
[3] https://www.wimi-teamwork.com/fr/blog/statistiques-gestion-de-projet/