Flashback Friday

A commemorative Agile Manifesto anniversary post where team members share personal snapshots of where they were in 2001. It offers a light, human reflection on diverse career journeys into modern agile and software delivery.

Coveros Staff

February 20, 2021

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. Follow along as we reflect and look to the future.

, Mike Sowers asked readers to think about where they were in February of 2001 at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. Here’s a fun look back by some our team members.

EVP Mike Sowers was helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities at a privately-held software engineering firm.

Senior Consultant Jonathan Kauffman was middle-schooler who liked to play video games and read books.

COO Dave Burke was a Director at Verizon, leading a large software development team responsible for several strategic projects that emanated from the Bell Atlantic / NYNEX / GTE mergers which created Verizon.

Senior Consultant Byron Katz was pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at University of Tennessee. He remembers playing a lot of Everquest and other online games.

Consultant Chao Din was a technical manager with the Bureau of Census using Microsoft and Oracle technologies, .NET, C#, C/C++, PL/SQL, and was in charge of Computer Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2 compliance.

Consultant Rustam Savaziyev was a high-schooler liked robotics and soccer. He says homework was the only thing agile he was doing at that time.

Although I had stepped away from software for a few years, being a stay-at-home mother of three kids under the age of 6 kept me very agile.

Learn more about the people that make up our team and what makes us different. If you are as passionate about software as we are and value leaders that will help you grow, .

Coveros Staff

Coveros Staff

This post represents the collective insights of the Coveros team. Our staff consists of software experts who bring deep experience in secure agile development, DevOps, testing, and software quality. Over the past 20 years, Coveros has trained more than 30,000 professionals and worked with half of the Fortune 100 companies on mission-critical software development challenges. We draw on this extensive experience to share practical insights, proven strategies, and real-world solutions that help organizations build better software faster and more securely.