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New Agile Development Forum

agile development forumI'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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A Fool With A Tool Is Still A Fool!

VersionOne do tools for agile development and I was interested reading the VersionOne blog. Of course it's important in any approach to have good tools, but in my view the process is much more important than the tools you use to support it. And even more important than that - by far - is the mindset of the people applying the process.

Agile Development turns the traditional development approach completely on its head. So it's of paramount importance that all people involved adopt the agile mindset, and hang on to the process. Otherwise you're in grave danger, because a fool with a tool is still a fool :-)

Or perhaps even try that phrase the other way around - it still works just fine doesn't it?!

10 Key Principles of Agile Development

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