JB Rainsberger took a stab at simplifying the Agile Manifesto.

Original (24 words):

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

I’ll see your 3 bullets (24 words), JB,

• People working together over precise rules and pre-packaged solutions
• Working software over promises
• Doing what’s needed over doing what we said was needed

and raise (well, reduce) you:

• People working together over dogma
• Working software over promises
• Doing what’s needed now

24 words to 13 words. Same context? You decide.

More to follow 🙂