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Mark Nicol

That's a great question and a lovely summary of all the original contributors to the original agile manifesto and principles. I'd be more than happy if people want to discuss that.

I'm enjoying rereading a lot of the writing about agile at the time and some of the more recent trains of thought and contributions. As part of a team coming fresh to working in an Agile/Scrum setting a lot of the ideas still seem helpful and useful. I've written here about the ones that have enthused me.

Disservice is a big word. I think the manifesto has directed thinking about what is good or bad and what is valued in a particular direction. On a personal level I was shocked at the point I realized how much it shaped (or fitted) my natural assumptions and values.

Every so often something stops me short and shows me there are alternative ways to see the world - sometimes through choice, sometimes through lack of choice.

These are smart guys who knew their jobs. A lot of their books were my mentors when I was first learning how to code in a work environment. What they said has value but it is not written in stone.

Everyone coming now has the chance to adopt, adapt and change that if they want to better fit their needs. I wrote the post because I wondered what that world might look like.