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Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization with global membership, supporting and serving the Agile software community since 2001. We support people who explore and apply Agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable. We share our passion to deliver software better every day.
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Adaptability is a fundamental competence that organizations must have to achieve sustainability. The ability of any system to adapt transcends the world of organizations and h…
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Agile Alliance is excited to share a special report on Agile Business, produced in partnership with Raconteur and published in The Times of London. This 16-page report include…
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The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space.
A wide array of to…
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The Agile Alliance community was deeply saddened to learn that Tamsen Mitchell passed away on October 28, 2020.
A gifted coach and visual facilitator, Tamsen was a cherishe…
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Our sincere thanks goes out to the Agile2020 Conference Chair, Program Committee, Track Chairs, Reviewers, Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteer Coordinators, Purple Shirt Volunteers,…
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What happens when you can’t hold a physical conference event?
Conference organizers put in incredible amounts of work to invite speakers, review submissions, shape a pr…
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In March, the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. This global health crisis presents vast unique challenges that have impa…
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Agile Alliance is pleased to announce the program for our annual technical conference, deliver:Agile 2020, which is tailored to software developers who want to learn more abou…
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What is the most impactful experience you have had on your Agile journey?
When you are considering that question, do you find yourself thinking about a story? If so, we…
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At Agile2018, we trialed what we called ‘Agile Circuit training’. It was intended to be a high-energy Friday morning session (i.e. after the Thursday night party) where people…
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In part one of our series about how you can get involved in the AGILE20xx conference, we took a look at the role Reviewers play. Next we examined what's involved in the roles …
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In part one of our series about how you can get involved in the AGILE20xx conference, we took a look at the role Reviewers play. Now we'll examine what's involved in the roles…
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We as members of the AGILE2019 organizing team would like to shed some light on the behind-the-scenes roles that are involved in putting together an AGILE20XX conference and w…
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Being connected to society is an essential ingredient to long-term profitability. If a company is not giving back to society, it is likely to be viewed as untrustworthy and di…
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We hear people often say that an Agile transformation implies a culture change and that this culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. However, what does this…
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Designed for Developers and QA, UX Designers, Infrastructure Engineers, Data Scientists, Cloud Specialists and more, deliver:Agile brings you 56 technical experts, luminaries,…
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With great sadness, we learned of Mike Beedle's tragic death on March 23, 2018.
Mike's positive influence and impact on the Agile community has been significant. He pla…
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As an executive, you know that, by quickly delivering innovative, high value-added features, you gain new customers and market share from your competitors.
All too often re…
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It’s been a busy year on the Agile Alliance Blog, bringing you the latest in thought leadership and keeping you abreast of our activities. Here are the top 10 most popular blo…
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I had the pleasure of helping organise the Agile Tauranga 2017 conference held in….wait for it, Tauranga at the end of September. Agile Tauranga was an Agile Alliance initiati…
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By Jorgen Hesselberg and Roshelle Ritzenthale
Right before our eyes our physical and digital spaces are converging. Augmented realities are creating a new genre of place-ma…
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In any given moment, we are faced with around 11 million pieces of information. Of those bits of info, the brain can only process 40 at a time. If that’s the case, what do we …
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PMI and Agile Alliance have joined forces to create an Agile Practice Guide with the intention to build a greater understanding of Agile practices, with emphasis on how Agile …
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Agile Alliance and Project Management Institute (PMI) are about to initiate a major launch later this year – the Agile Practice Guide. Our joint development team has spent sev…
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This post discusses the development of the new Agile Practice Guide and it’s fit, alignment and potential conflicts with other PMI standards documents including the upcoming P…
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A structural defect, not a personal failing
Technical debt is the deficit in code quality that adds up over time. When you copy and paste code, create classes with unnecessary…
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Gauge your knowledge of Technical Debt and the Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model (A2DAM). Our open test covers the following 4 domains:
The Technical Debt Concept
Tec…
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3-50+ Servings
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Preparation: 30 minutes
Cook for 30 to 45 minutes for the game part
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Dough: One slide deck prepared in advance…
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Now that the Agile movement has expanded to larger organizations in more industries, we’re seeing a lot of variation. Granted, we’re used to a variety frameworks, techniques, …
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Agile Alliance is hosting its second Agile Alliance Technical Conference in 2017. We're Linda Cook and Paul Hammond, members of the Agile Alliance Board, and we would like to …
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This post recounts a working group session held on September 25th at the PMI Global Congress conference in San Diego and its main findings. The workshop was an opportunity for…
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Recently, a team of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and cultures has come together to collaborate on an Agile Practice Guide sponsored by Ag…
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This article was first published in the SoftEd blog.
2016 marks the fifth and final year SoftEd’s Shane Hastie will be on the Board of the Agile Alliance. We talk to Shane ab…
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Contributors: Declan Whelan, Tom Grant and Dan Sturtevant
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As explained in our introduction document about technical debt, it is important to identif…
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Contributors: Thierry Coq, Jean-Pierre Fayolle, Tom Grant and Dan Sturtevant
Special thanks to Ward Cunningham for his review
Introduction to Technical Debt fr…
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Contributors: Thierry Coq, Jean-Pierre Fayolle, Jean-Louis Letouzey and Dan Sturtevant
The adage, "Act in haste, repent at leisure," definitely applies to technical debt. Peo…
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In this work, we present the concept of a change model. The model addresses complex changes as we often experience it when introducing a modern (respectively Agile) software d…
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Most companies want to be profitable, adaptable, and sustainable. Agile methods and good people management practices support that. However, the current core people management …
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by Michael Sahota, Bjarte Bogsnes, Jaana Nyfjord, Jorgen Hesselberg, Almir Drugovic
Many large and mid-sized organizations struggle with taking Agile beyond IT largely beca…
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In a large system-on-chip design we needed to integrate hardware accelerators and control them using software drivers. When errors or unexpected results occur we need…
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In this interview by Dave Prior, Vivek Angiras describes his great experience as a volunteer at Agile2015 — the Agile industry's premier event — which attracted more than 2,30…
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Watch Dave Prior's thought-provoking interview with Larry Maccherone, Director of Analytics and Research at AgileCraft. Larry is a thought leader on Lean, Agile, metrics, and …
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This is the last part in the series “Trapped in Wagile”. In the kick-off article I outlined three fundamental characteristics of waterfall organizations. In subsequent article…
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One of the biggest challenges of developing a digital product is accepting that your core development team may not be enough to get a complex product out the door quickly. Agi…
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The Agile Alliance was a proud sponsor of Bosnia Agile Day 2014 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina last October. The one-day conference brought together Agile evangelists, le…