My Eight Current Agile Blogs

When I put together this blog I wanted to make reference to other bloggers. I noticed that there are a lot of Agile blogs. What I chose to do is to pick people I knew or blogs that I found particularly interesting. There are many, many others. Have fun browsing!

Tobias Meyer writes the blog, Agile Thoughts. He is one of the most interesting trainers that I know. He is very opinionated. I know him personally and really enjoy being around him. I have learned a lot from him. Tobias is always very thoughtful and I really respect his opinion. He is particularly interested in the games we play to help people learn.

Mike Cohn writes the blog, Succeeding with Agile. Mike is a classic and was on the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance for a long time. He has written some of the best books on Agile. He is very strong in what he believes Scrum should be. I have trained with him. I enjoy being with Mike a lot and he is very knowledgeable. He has thought out a lot of things and is not afraid to make controversial statements.

Ken Schwaber writes the blog, Edge of Chaos: Edge of Chaos, Agile Development Blog. He is the man who put Scrum on the map. He went to conferences starting in the mid-90s and talked about Scrum and learned more about it. Ken co-wrote the first book defining Scrum and is the “father” of Scrum in a sense of getting the word out. He put together some of the first training programs. Ken is still active. I see him about twice a year at the Scrum gatherings.

John Scumniotales writes the blog, Agile Product Development. He was on the very first Scrum project, which I also had the pleasure of being on. John was, in essence, the very first Scrum Master. He is now a VP of Engineering at Serena Software. He is taking Agile up through the enterprise. He has been very concerned with how to bring Agile practices as you move up the management chain. We have disagreed at times but he has thoughtful articles about his experience, more on the management or executive side of Scrum. I read his blog fairly often.

Jeff Sutherland writes the blog, Scrum Log. He was the intellectual founder of Scrum. He did all the research with the Japanese. He was the CTO of the first Scrum project that John Scumniotales and I were on. Jeff is a very interesting fellow with two MDs. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War. John is full of energy and goes around the world training people in Scrum. He is constantly pushing the boundaries of Scrum. You should read his articles about red and blue Scrum. He has said that if the project team does not have a velocity in place after two or three meetings you should disband the team and start over again. I think of what he does as tough love or “tough Scrum.” Jeff is a great guy who always listens carefully to what you have to say.

David Anderson writes the Agile Management Blog. David is from the Lean thinking approach and I find him very interesting to read. He has a lot of good ideas. He is very much into measurement and its effects on projects. Lately he has been chatting more about Enterprise Agile and more focus on Lean.

Corey Ladas writes the blog, Lean Software Engineering. I do not know him but I find his work in Lean very interesting as we bring the Lean practices more directly in front of the Agile process. Clearly Agile and Lean are closely tied together. Corey makes this very explicit.

The Agile Advice blog is subtitled Working with Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean). I do not know this writer but it is a blog I saw that I liked. I thought it was interesting and wanted to include it.

Comments

[Pub Msu]

Hi, not sure if I am missing anything, but the Edge of Chaos blog is actually by Mike Dubakov of TargetProcess, not Ken.

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