Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- How do you run your daily standups? Mark Levison summarizes the forum discussion on Daily Scrum: Sitting or Standing?
- More sitting - Jason Yip discusses the Patterns of Daily Standup Meetings.
- Michael Hugos posts on CIO Magazine about C-Level agility - Leadership for the Agile Organization (hat tip: Mishkin Berteig)
Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Delay making a decision until the last possible moment. Isn’t that the agile way? Kevin Rutherford talks about an interesting and thought-provoking approach: Set-based Design with Agile.
- End of January and you’re already exhausted? Frank Patrick riffs on Jeffrey Phillips’ article: Slow down to get more done.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Reg Braithwaite wrote a two-part series on Selling Agile (part 1, part 2). Kurt Christensen follows up and adds his own two cents.
Responding to change over following a plan
- Infrastructure - is it the bane of agile development? Simon Baker discusses.
- David J Anderson says that there are only two questions you need to ask to see if you’re ready to be agile.
Agile Resources
- Rachel Davies is looking for interesting agile project experiences for the Agile 2007 conference.
- Brad Appleton has a definitive list of Lean Development Resources
- Mishkin Berteig is looking for new authors to help him at Agile Advice.
- Dan Bunea discusses Test First Web Applications in C#, with source code.
Agile Fun
- Sir Mix-a-lot redux: I like Refactoring and I cannot lie
Previous Editions
All previous editions of the Carnival are referenced at the Agile Alliance website.
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New Addition
I’m pleased to announce that Mark Levinson will be joining us as one of the editors of the Carnival of the Agilists. Look for his contribution on February 15th, 2007.
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