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The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is not the end-all/be-all of software development.

There will always be the potential for another manifesto that lays out a new or refined set of values and principles, and become the framework for a new set of software development methodologies based upon that new manifesto.

Perhaps that new potential manifesto can have representatives from a more diverse base of people. Whoever those people will be, they will be self-nominated and have to be self-motivated to involve themselves in that process.

Perhaps such a manifesto has already been created, but just hasn't reached prominence yet.

The signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development met in 2001 to discuss what they perceived as the problems in our industry, at that time. The manifesto was a product of their brainstorming to figure out what worked well from that which hindered software development.

Times have changed. Some of the problems which currently plague parts of our industry now can be traced back to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and in the way it has adopted... or maladapted.

The people in our industry that have had great success with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development will be proponents of it. (And I'm speaking of developers, not of purveyors of certificates and coaches.) Those who have been underwhelmed by agile-based methodologies will be where the Next Big Thing comes from.