Agile insights

InfoQ

• November 2021: Agile Coaches, Agile Guides and Other Family Members
• June 2021: Reawakening Agile with OKRs
• February 2021: Continuous Digital, #NoProjects, Minimally Viable Teams and OKRs (Podcast with transcript)
• September 2018: Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia
• December 2014: No Projects / Beyond Projects (#NoProjects / BeyondProjects)
• April 2013: Dialogue Sheets Revisited – InfoQ
• June 2012: 10 things to make your Agile Adoption Successful (PDF) – InfoQ page and Portuguese translation by Leonardo Campos
• January 2012: Dialogue Sheets for Retrospectives – French translation by Laurent Carbonnaux Feuilles de Dialogue : Un nouvel outil pour les rétrospectives
• February 2011: Agile Contract options (PDF) – on InfoQ site
• July 2010: The Limits of Agile

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Methods & Tools journal

• Spring 2021 (March): Introducing OKRs (Objectives and key results)
• Summer 2017 (June): Deadlines are Elastic by Value (except from Continuous Digital)
• Spring 2016 (May): Managing Beyond Projects – #NoProjects
• Sprint 2015 (May): Laws for Software Development Teams in Methods & Tools
• Autumn 2014 (September): Something Old, Something New: Requirements and Specifications, Methods & Tools Fall 2014 issue, and PDF version from this website
• Summer 2013 (June): Business Patterns for Software Developers (whole issue download)
• Fall 2011: Dialogue Sheets for Retrospectives and Beyond (whole issue download) and Dialogue Sheets for Retrospectives and Beyond (stand-alone article)

The Nature of Agile

Chapters for a book which never came to pass.

• What is Agile? – Perspectives on Agile
• Perspectives on Scrum
• Why Agile?
• Is Agile specific to Software Development?
• Building the Agile company – beyond the iteration
• Principles of Software Development
• The Agile Pyramid & the Learning View
• The Agile Spectrum

Agile Connection journal

• April 2018: The Future of Agile Is Digital
• October 2017: Overcoming fear of coding
• July 2017: Build One before Building Many: Learning from Agile Feedback
• May 2017: Estimating cost of delay in Agile Projects with Time-Value Profiles
• November 2016: A Prescription for Your Team’s Agile Transition
• User Stories series – now available as “Little Book of User Stories”
  1. March 2016: User Stories series: How Being Agile Can Maximize Your Return on Investment
  2. February 2016: User Stories series: The Effect of Time
  3. January 2016: User Stories series: Estimating Business Value in the Shark Tank
  4. December 2015: User Stories series: Don’t forget the stakeholders
  5. November 2015: User Stories series: Assessing the Business Value of Agile User Stories
  6. September 2015: User Stories series: Defining Acceptance Criteria for Agile Requirements
  7. September 2015: User Stories series: Acceptance criteria, Specifications and tests
  8. September 2015: User Stories series: Definition of Done
  9. September 2015: User Stories series: Working with Nonfunctional Requirements
  10. August 2015: User Stories series: Stories, Epics, and Tasks: Organizing Agile Requirements
  11. July 2015: User Stories series: Relieving Agile Tension: How to Write Small Stories That Still Have Value
  12. July 2015: User Stories series: User Story Heuristics: Understanding Agile Requirements
  13. July 2015: User Stories series: Know Your Customers: They Can Help You Write Better User Stories
      Note: The User Stories series is also published as a LeanPub book with added material, A Little Book about Requirements and User Stories
• January 2015: Does Agile Work outside Software?
• August 2013: Why Dialogue Sheet Retrospectives are Important
• April 2013: 12 Myths of Agile Development
• March 2012: Dear Customer, the Truth about IT Projects
  • Dear Customer – PDF download
  • Italian translation by Manuel Paccagnella
  • (There are other translations Vietnamese, Serbia and Portuguese at least, the links have been lost, please share if you know them!)
• August 2009: Dissecting the Product Owner role
• July 2009: The Role of the Agile Coach – French translation by Nicolas Mereaux.
• May 2009: Second Look, Requirements Come Second
• April 2009: Agile in the Downturn
• February 2009: Requirements Come Second
• October 2008: The New Challenge in Agile Adoption
• April 2008: The Trouble with Retrospectives

Other publications

ATOS: The Future is Small – guest blog post, March 2018

TechBeacon: The MVP is broken: It’s time to restore the minimum viable product, Autumn 2017

BA Times: The BA/Tester Switch, November 2017

Agile Record: Agile – Where’s the evidence? – PDF publication ceased, Agile Record, Issue 11, August 2012

Modern Analyst: Objective Agility – what does it take to be an Agile company? – August 2010

Managing Agile software development

• Tracking, forecasting and learning with charts – this essay now forms part of Agile Reader eBook 3rd edition
• Bugs: Management Strategies, August 2014 – this essay is now included in The Xanpan Appendix
• Requirements and Specifications – this essay now forms an appendix to Little Book of Requirements and User Stories
• Three Plans for Agile (long version) – a short version of this essay appeared in some online publications and Agile Reader eBook 3rd
• Agile Dymistified (version 3, 2009) – a later version appears in Agile Reader eBook 3rd
• Agile Contract Options – also appears in Agile Reader eBook 3rd
• A Guide to Iteration Planning Meetings