Forrester have recently released the results of their November 2011 Global Agile Software Application Development Online Survey in a report entitled “Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?” It contains a number of interesting findings around how organisations that have adopted Agile are dealing with their implementation.
Source: Survey Confirms Scaling Agile Across The Organisation Is Still A Challenge
A series of recent articles by Steve Denning on Forbes have highlighted the challenges that the Agile community faces to get acceptance by mainstream management.
Source: The Management View of Agile – Unaware or Unwilling?
Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation.
Source: Net-Map – A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence
A recent post by Paul Dolman-Darrall on the Value, Flow, Quality blog proposed a list of the 20 most influential people in the Agile community.
Source: The Most Influential People in Agile
The Agile community has a great tradition of making fun of itself and April Fools Day 2012 was no exception. Here is a wrap up of some of the best gags from this year that you may have missed.
Source: Agile Humour: A Wrap Up of April Fools Day 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
Source: Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
VersionOne have recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2011, and as always it gives an interesting insight into Agile adoption and trends.
Source: 2011 State of Agile Survey Results Show Agile Adoption Stable
Interruptions are something that every team has to deal with and, if not managed appropriately, they can potentially have a detrimental affect on their ability to deliver. In a recent post on the Agile Advice blog, Mishkin Berteig described seven options that teams could consider to deal with interruptions when using Scrum or iterative Agile approaches.
Source: Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams
The debate as to whether a ScrumMaster is a full-time or part-time role in an Agile teams has created a lot of discussion in the community in recent months. As a result, the community have developed a ScrumMaster Manifesto.
Source: Is the ScrumMaster a Full Time Role? Yes, According to the ScrumMaster Manifesto
What is the most important thing that the Agile community needs to embrace in 2012 and beyond? InfoQ had the opportunity to attend the recent YOW! Australia Software Developer Conference and took the opportunity of having such a large number of Agile speakers in one place to sit in on the sessions and ask them their thoughts on this question.
Source: The Agile Community Needs to Embrace… Agile Thought Leaders at YOW! Australia 2011
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