The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001. It was intended as a response to the heavyweight, documentation-driven software development processes that were in everyday use at this time.
Software was a new industry as the first computers emerged shortly after the 2nd World War. For the following decades, only a few computers were in use. This changed in the 1980s and 1990s with the birth of the personal computer and the internet. In a few years, millions of people had begun creating software to help businesses gain a competitive advantage and provide new services for customers.
