In This Issue

• 5 C's of Agile Development - The Agile Journal
• The State of Agile Development Survey
• Simple Design Within Agile is Often Misunderstood - Brad Appleton
• "The Line of Scrummage" - HanselMinutes Podcast

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5 C's of Agile Development

The July issue of The Agile Journal features an article written by VersionOne President and CEO Robert Holler entitled: "5 C's of Agile Development". In the article Mr. Holler discusses how in order to capitalize on the evolutionary nature of agile development, today's leadership community must also focus on five key aspects associated with agile development: Courage, Context, Course, Cadence, and Cost.

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"The State of Agile Development" Survey

Just a reminder to take the VersionOne / Agile Alliance survey. If you have not already participated in this survey, please find the link below and make sure your experiences are included!

Response to the survey has been great and this looks to be one of the most comprehensive, real-world Agile survey to date.

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Simple Design Within Agile is Often Misunderstood

One of the key tenets underlying agile development is simplicity. Unfortunately, simplicity is oftentimes misunderstood and/or misrepresented. Brad Appleton provides great insight on the various components of simple design:

To view Brad's blog post click or cut and paste the link below.

http://bradapp.blogspot.com/2006/05/simple-aint-easy-myths-and.html

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The Line of Scrummage - Podcast

This weekly audio talk show features noted developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and is hosted by Carl Franklin. In this weeks show, Scott talks about the use, implentation and execution of Scrum as their Agile methodology of choice throughout Corillian Corporation's development organization where he is Chief Architect.

To listen to this podcast in a multiple of format choices click or cut and past the link below.
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=32