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by TheCoelacanth 858 days ago
Three of the original signers of the Agile Manifesto are also the main people involved with creating XP[1][2][3].

The Agile Manifesto was just a bunch of people who were already doing XP, Scrum or some other lightweight process getting together and writing down the similarities between what they were doing. It's a blanket term invented to describe a variety of different processes, not an actual process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeffries