Robert C. Martin

Agile was developed by technical people it was a creation of the software industry programmers sat in that room and created the agile Manifesto and the agile principles. And then came certification. And with certification hordes and hordes of project managers started to get certified and they would sit for two days in a class and get a piece of paper and feel that that was some how significant and they literally took over the agile movement the agile movement shifted dramatically towards the project management side. ...

Robert C. Martin says that Agile is a small idea about the small problem of small programming teams doing small things. Agile is not a big idea about the big problem of big programming teams doing big things. Big things don’t get done by big teams; big things get done by the collaboration of many small teams doing many small things. To help popularize this, back in the early 2000s, the idea was given a name. “Agile.” ...