New Agile Development Forum
by Kelly Waters
I've been searching Google and Yahoo recently for discussion forums about agile software development.
To my amazement, there are a few well visited groups on Yahoo about very specific topics such as Scrum and XP, but not a lot for discussion on agile principles and philosophies in general. Those that exist seem very poorly subscribed or based on local regional communities.
So I've set up a new group; the objective is to discuss anything and everything about agile. Whether you want to talk about Scrum, XP, DSDM, Agile principles and philosophies, challenges implementing agile in practice, whatever - please use this forum to do it.
http://groups.google.com/group/allaboutagile
It's been up and running for less than 48 hours and already has over 40 members. That's pretty trivial really but already one of the highest agile groups on Google. Hence I think there's real potential for agile enthusiasts, experts and people new to agile to converge around one group, if I can get traction.
Like all forums, it's all about generating some initial momentum (chicken and egg!), so if you're interested, please help it along by posting a comment or question and maybe answering one.
And by the way, I have nothing to gain from running this forum. I'm not selling anything, I've written no books, I don't offer consultancy. I'm just enthusiastic about agile principles and want to see a place where enough agile people hang out online to make it a useful community :-)
Thanks in advance for your support...
Kelly.
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28 March 2007 22:02
Great idea Kelly – I’m desirous to be active in a forum as I begin to implement SCRUM along with my colleagues. My focus will be mainly on SCRUM from a Product Managers and ScrumMasters point of view. I’m keen to know and hear about people who have used SCRUM as a means to encourage knowledge sharing – read more at my blog http://allaboutproductmanagement.blogspot.com/2007/03/product-management-and-knowledge.html
29 March 2007 15:56
Ron Jeffries started a forum system last fall for us to vet some ideas around the Agile Alliance's conference. It still runs well, too.
http://forum.agilesoftwaredevelopment.org/