Welcome to the 2006 Carnival of Agilists and Happy New Year!

Many of you have been busy this year end proving us your "best of" lists, books to read and just a lot of blogging. Obviously you all had too much time on your hands over the holidays - time to get back to work.

In the mean time, I was taking some needed time off from our online community - boy is it hard to catch back up on a month's absence. I could use a Tivo blogging service to keep track of it all. Thanks to all of your contributions and and wonderful insights.

The next Carnival will be January 19th, 2006. Here is this editions contents...

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

• What happens when executives start to push the corporate agile bandwagon? Ester Derby has some Observations on Corporate Culture and Agile Methods Adoption/Adaptation.
• Lisa Haneberg explores how the power of inclusion and empowerment leads to Owners Not Groaners.
• Tobias Mayer, challenging Ron Jefferies as the new zen of the agile community has had some thought provoking contributions on the message boards and in his writings - here he is Cutting up an Ox. Mishkin thinks it is a lovely poem.
• We get our teams to show us the software" after each iteration, but how often as managers do we "show" them what you are looking for? Jeffrey Phillips has some "Show and Tell" advice for managers

• Alex Pukinskis provides some Baby steps for your project in the new year.
• Johanna Rothman has some good suggestions for anyone creating a new product - Implementation by Feature and Embedded Systems Issues.
• Some nice basic agile concepts presented in this presentation applied to content development in this article entitled "The case for agile content development".

• Brian Marick suggests that there are Two Agile Alliance programs you may be interested in...
• Bill Waddell explores the various aspects of failure in his blog entry entitled Waddya Mean by 'Failure'.

• Glen Alleman makes some New Year's resolution suggestions for us in Things Not to Do in 2006. I don't know about you, but I like the idea of throwing out some old ways - how else do we make room for new ways?
• David Anderson doesn't like the idea of engineers doing their own estimates. Yet, that is the predominent recommendation by most agile methods. What do you think - Is there room for professional estimating?
• What Happens When a Team Doesn't "Get to Done" in an Iteration? Mishkin Berteig provides us some advice...
• Simon Baker also discusses the end of iteration issues in Slop and Slack.
• So what do we do when the New practive didn't help? Jared Richardson has some ideas that may help.

• Recent spam on the message boards caused some artistic fun...
• Will test for Beer
• Speaking of Beer, I might need some reading how David Anderson starts Burning down the Christmas card list. I don't know for sure, but I like the "let my wife write them all" process.

• Glen Alleman - 2005 Books On or About Project Management
• Brad Appleton - Agile SCM 2005 Book Reflections and Recommendations
• David Anderson - You are what you read

Previous Editions
All previous editions of the Carnival are referenced at the Agile Alliance.

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