Learning from the Past The old has influenced the new in agile. While agile may feel like a 21st century phenomenon, its origins go back decades. ‘Lean’ manufacturers emerged in Japan in the 1980s. Software developers including Microsoft We have a wealth of knowledge picked up the mantle in the 1990s and data to draw on as we plot the next phase of agile’s evolution and apply it across the enterprise The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001