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6: Every project longer than a day must have an engineering plan, no exceptions. There is nothing more guaranteed to blow up a project than realizing weeks (or months in) that a requirement was missed.
Apart from that it is a good start for a manifesto - just needs a meme handle (≈agile).Item 6 jumped out to me because many people would interpret it as waterfall process which doesn't appear to be what you are trying to encourage.
I liked how you put things in your article.
Aside: my personal definition of good engineering is making the right compromises.