An Agile New Years Resolution

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

• Scott Ambler has An Agile New Year's Resolution for All of Us to consider living true to our agile approach of being more open and respectful in our interactions with individuals. Are you walking the walk, or just talking the talk?
• How about paying a little thanks to all of your co-workers and others in your life? Clark Ching suggests rather than a New Year's Resolution List, how about A New Year's Graditude List.
• Are you improving? Lisa Haneberg provides us a challenge in How will you grow in 2007 - 10 Factors that Enhance Learning and Application.

• What makes a team agile? Scrum? Continuous Integration? Kirk Knoernschild believes it is in the code and has An Agile Resolution to turn focus to the essential characteristics of technology that help maximize the effectiveness of agile practices.

• I will talk to my customers and not assume I know what they consider to be of value. This is one of 10 Lean New Year's Resolutions from Ralph Bernstein. Check out the rest.

• Aren't New Year's Resolutions a bit too waterfall? We plan out goals for a whole year? Well, Daniel from Oreilly thinks so and provides us a guide to some Agile Resolutions.
• Are you having trouble responding to change? Mishkin Berteig has a personal New Year's Resolution to maintain a Sustainable Pace in 2007. How is your work-life balance?

• A Carnival wouldn't be complete with at least one perspective from Michael Vizdos and his Implementing Scrum Cartoons. This New Year's edition provides us a CSM Training - Reality Check.