Some of the them were practitioners and very technical. Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Dave Thomas, Robert C. Martin, Martin Fowler. In general

Some of the them were practitioners and very technical. Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Dave Thomas, Robert C. Martin, Martin Fowler. In general there was a movement about better ways to develop software (beyond waterfall) and people were trying to figure it out. In 2002 they just got together and put it in writing.