SOA Manifesto

Recently I discovered that during 2nd International SOA Symposium they published SOA Manifesto. It follows the spirit of the famous Agile Manifesto, which provoked many discussion and debates over the actual meaning of the statements of that manifesto.

(Not) surprisingly there are many other manifestos related to software. Here are some to name a few:

• The GNU Manifesto
• The Mozilla Manifesto
• Open Cloud Manifesto

But there is important thing, which puts SOA and Agile manifestos apart from others — they can not be simply declared by an individual to work. While one can accept, for example,  the GNU Manifesto and act as declared and make a difference. With SOA and Agile you can not manifest something individually — the team has to embrace these ideas together in order to make them work.

I wonder when (and if) we will move to team manifestos instead on manifestos of individuals.