One Page Papers

Software practice · 2001

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas

11-13 February 2001

Four values for developing software, stated in 2001 by seventeen people who met at Snowbird, Utah.

Read the text The whole poster as a web page

Part of the series Free software and ways of working.

Poster of “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”: the text centered on the page
Shown in the ivorygenesis theme
Print from
A3
License
© 2001 the authors, copies in entirety
Retrieved
27 September 2026
Language
English
Rights holder
The seventeen authors, 2001

Theme

Download

US formats

Each one laid out on its own. At Letter and Tabloid the body of a long text prints under 8 pt: they suit short texts, or a copy to read up close.

Print it Which size, paper or aluminium, which file to send

Every Software practice poster, in the A, 50 × 70 and 60 × 80 cm formats and every theme, as one zip from the latest release, and in the US formats as another.

Print from A3: the smallest A size at which the body text is at least 8 pt.

Wallpaper

Wallpapers are drawn in your browser from the PDF of the poster: this needs JavaScript.

Edition

The declaration as published on agilemanifesto.org, the same as its English page (agilemanifesto.org/iso/en/manifesto.html). The line breaks of the page and its three columns of names are kept, and the first words of the four value lines are set larger, as on the page; the title is the title of the poster and the notice is in the footer. The dates and the place come from the history page of the site, agilemanifesto.org/history.html. The background artwork of the site is not used.

Rights

© 2001, the above authors this declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.

Stated under the names of the authors on https://agilemanifesto.org/. The poster copies the declaration in its entirety, from its title through this notice, which is in its footer. The site design and artwork, “© 2001, Ward Cunningham”, are not reproduced.

Also in the collection