I did a talk last week about the brief history of Agile starting with pre nineteenth industrialists, the early meritocrats (like Franklin and Napoleon) and working through to the current day. Someone asked me for my reading list. So, here is the annotated version. The rest, such as dates and lives of people like Henry Ford and Sakichi Toyoda I grabbed from Wikipedia (admittedly, this is not the most reliable source of information). Here is the list:

Iterative and Incremental Development, Larman and Basili

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