Early Days of Agile Development & Is Design Dead? • Martin Fowler & James Lewis

In an interview with James Lewis, Martin Fowler recounts his journey into the Agile movement, starting from the object-oriented community to the pivotal Chrysler C3 project where Extreme Programming (XP) was born. He discusses the shift from upfront to evolutionary design, the creation of the Agile Manifesto, and offers modern perspectives on developer productivity, the role of GenAI in software analysis, and the enduring importance of XP's technical practices.