Agile Alliance
Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization with global membership, supporting and serving the Agile software community since 2001. We support people who explore and apply Agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable. We share our passion to deliver software better every day.
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Agile Alliance is pleased to announce our Call for Nominations for Agile Alliance Board of Directors term of 2025-2027. Nominations are due by April 11, 2024. Anyone intereste…
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Agile Alliance Young Professionals Committee! This committee, which will be chaired by Semira Allen, was approved by the Board of…
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Agile Alliance is excited to host our Agile2024 conference in Grapevine, Texas! Thank you to all of our members and others who are contributing to the agenda and the environme…
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Dear Agile Alliance Members,
You might recall Agile Alliance reduced membership dues in 2020 (from $99 to $49) in response to the financial challenges posed by the COVID-19…
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2023 was another exciting and eventful year for Agile Alliance. Let's take a closer look at some key highlights and milestones from this past year.
In-person conferences
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As we encounter numerous large-scale environmental challenges, the Agile community is beginning to focus on the pressing concern of sustainability.
In the following Q&A…
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Adaptability is a fundamental competence that organizations must have to achieve sustainability. The ability of any system to adapt transcends the world of organizations and h…
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Agile Alliance is excited to share a special report on Agile Business, produced in partnership with Raconteur and published in The Times of London. This 16-page report include…
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The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space.
A wide array of to…
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The Agile Alliance community was deeply saddened to learn that Tamsen Mitchell passed away on October 28, 2020.
A gifted coach and visual facilitator, Tamsen was a cherishe…
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Our sincere thanks goes out to the Agile2020 Conference Chair, Program Committee, Track Chairs, Reviewers, Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteer Coordinators, Purple Shirt Volunteers,…
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What happens when you can’t hold a physical conference event?
Conference organizers put in incredible amounts of work to invite speakers, review submissions, shape a program, …
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In March, the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. This global health crisis presents vast unique challenges that have impa…
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Agile Alliance is pleased to announce the program for our annual technical conference, deliver:Agile 2020, which is tailored to software developers who want to learn more abou…
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At Agile2018, we trialed what we called ‘Agile Circuit training’. It was intended to be a high-energy Friday morning session (i.e. after the Thursday night party) where people…
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With great sadness, we learned of Mike Beedle's tragic death on March 23, 2018.
Mike's positive influence and impact on the Agile community has been significant. He played …
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It’s been a busy year on the Agile Alliance Blog, bringing you the latest in thought leadership and keeping you abreast of our activities. Here are the top 10 most popular blo…
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I had the pleasure of helping organise the Agile Tauranga 2017 conference held in….wait for it, Tauranga at the end of September. Agile Tauranga was an Agile Alliance initiati…
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Agile Alliance and Project Management Institute (PMI) are about to initiate a major launch later this year – the Agile Practice Guide. Our joint development team has spent sev…
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I’m often asked how I started in the Agile community and #WomenInAgile. The answer is not that simple. It was many random events, introductions, and sometimes just luck. That’…
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A structural defect, not a personal failing
Technical debt is the deficit in code quality that adds up over time. When you copy and paste code, create classes with unnecessary…
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Gauge your knowledge of Technical Debt and the Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model (A2DAM). Our open test covers the following 4 domains:
The Technical Debt Concept
Tec…
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Level
Intermediate
Yield
3-50+ Servings
Total Time
Preparation: 30 minutes
Cook for 30 to 45 minutes for the game part
Ingredients
Dough: One slide deck prepared in advance…
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Agile Alliance is hosting its second Agile Alliance Technical Conference in 2017. We're Linda Cook and Paul Hammond, members of the Agile Alliance Board, and we would like to …
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This post recounts a working group session held on September 25th at the PMI Global Congress conference in San Diego and its main findings. The workshop was an opportunity for…
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So yes, it’s overdue. The #WomenInAgile session was three months ago, but honestly it took about that long to get my bearings back afterward. It was a busy year in preparation…
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2016 marks the fifth and final year SoftEd’s Shane Hastie will be on the Board of the Agile Alliance. We talk to Shane about the growth of the Agile Alliance over the past fiv…
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In a large system-on-chip design we needed to integrate hardware accelerators and control them using software drivers. When errors or unexpected results occur we need…
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This is the last part in the series “Trapped in Wagile”. In the kick-off article I outlined three fundamental characteristics of waterfall organizations. In subsequent article…
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The Agile Alliance was a proud sponsor of Bosnia Agile Day 2014 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina last October. The one-day conference brought together Agile evangelists, le…