Welcome to the June 7th Carnival of the Agilists. Today’s theme is: There is no theme.

• Software Insurance? Are you mad? Laurent Bossavit provides the precedent.
• Glen Alleman lays out some examples of non-software applications of Agile Development techniques.

• Is delivering on time a synonym for success? Jason Gorman feels otherwise.
• Wil Shipley prefers to be agile by being inflexible. A contradiction in terms?
• Do you have a sticky buddy? David Anderson things you should.

• All of us are smarter than any of us. Mike Griffith provides the do’s and dont’s of team problem solving.
• Dave Churchville suggests ways to be agile in a distributed development environment. Maybe he needs a sticky buddy.
• Ten New Rules for Project Managers - but I bet they won’t all seem new to you!

• Jason Gorman asks Is the Agile Community a Clique? Just for that, I’m not inviting him to the secret Agilist Beach Party.
• Alan Shalloway is contemplating Why Scrum Works.

New Submitters:

• Alexey says “Thing Bigger, Think Agile Product Management“
• “To Be, Or Not To Be… Agile” - That is Basil Vandegriend’s question.

New Group Blogs

• The Agile Practitioner’s Blog

Resources

• A colorful and well-rounded Scrum Reference Card - from Contrado Solutions.

Books

• James Shore’s agile book is done, it’s just not done done.
• Johanna Rothman’s book, Manage It! is, however, done done.

Next Edition

• The next edition of the carnival will be on June 21st. I’ll fill in the URL here _________ when I find it.

Submissions

• Want to be included in the carnival? You’re more likely to get noticed if you send a link to your posts to agilists.carnival@gmail.com.

Add your Voice

• Think we’re a bunch of yahoos, and you could do this whole Carnival thing a thousand times better? Let us know, and you’ll get the chance to produce your own edition of the Carnival.