Welcome to the most recent edition of the Carnival of Agilists - a blog roll of some of the thoughts, insights, ideas and trends in the agile (and post-agile) communities. In continuing with the free-form format of our last couple of carnival posters and our first topic on post-agile, I have freed myself from the agile manifesto structure as well - freedom!

Jason Gorman and Jonathon Kohl are revoicing their skepticism on the current Agile (capital A) movement hype and wanting to find a better place to do just what works for you in their recent postings on Post-Agilism Explained and Post Agilism Frequently Asked Questions. I say 'revoicing' because this was started over a year ago. Has Agile (capital A) hyped out the benefits of agile (lowercase a)? While this may be true in the microcosm deep in the agile community - I still find too many people who haven't even heard of agile.

Ester Derby is confused by all of the talk about whether everyone on an agile team needs to be above average as she asks if we should Focus on the individual or the system? Thanks Esther for pointing us back to the lean principle of optimizing the whole system and not locally optimizing its parts as we often tend to do.

Diana Larson provides a quick method in gathering/prioritizing team retrospective feedback using FRequency & IMpact with FRIM: Another way to gather data. This is another great visualization tool that I plan to try out on my next team retrospective.

James Shore continues to make progress on his new book The Art of Agile Development. He has generously posted most of his work online during the writing stages for you to absorb and respond. James, thanks for reminding us of the agile value of openness.

Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson invite you to Five Days of Software Development with Style and Grace. This proves to be the experience of a lifetime for any (well, Java) developer!

Mike Cohn provides some Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting in scaling scrum across a larger organization. 

Bernie Thompson started a new blog and discusses post-agile with the essential principle that allows lean to be something more than agile - Schedule is orthogonal to workflow. Scrum, being the closest to lean thinking separates workflow and re-enforces independent work items.

The Agile 2007 Conference Schedule has now been published. There are a tremendous number of sessions over the course of 5 days in August. I would highly suggest attending some or all of the event.

Previous Editions
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