In This Issue

• Trends in Agile Development - Kent Beck Presentation
• Rocks into Gold - Clarke Ching
• Live Multi-Track Webinar Series - Agile Webinars - More Info
• Testers: The Hidden Resource - Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
• Agile 2009 Submissions Deadline Extended - Deadline is March 3rd

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Trends in Agile Development - Kent Beck Video Presentation @ InfoQ

In this presentation, Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming, shows the synergies between business and Agile development. The reason Agile is becoming more popular every day is because it responds to the business needs as they evolve.

View the presentation here.
(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Trends-Kent-Beck)

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Rocks into Gold- Clarke Ching

Clarke Ching's "Rocks into Gold" received multiple recommendations for inclusion in the Agile Chronicles. It's worth the click and you have multiple methods of reading it: buy the paperback, buy the .pdf or read it free on slideshare. Paypal tip option is available if you get the value many others have.

"Rocks Into Gold is a biztech parable, written by Clarke Ching, for software developers who want to Survive - and then Thrive – through the Credit Crunch...Rocks into Gold is a quick read - 20 - 40 minutes - that may just save your job. "

Buy or read the book here.
(http://www.rocksintogold.com)

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Live Multi-Track Webinar Series - Agile Webinars

VersionOne has tapped their global partners to create a multi-track live webinar series. By utilizing each training partner's deep domain knowledge, this webinar series will provide the broadest knowledge transfer. There will be multiple webinars within tracks for Agile 101, Agile Manager, Best Practices and Agile for the Enterprise.

More info on the Agile 101 track here.
(http://www.versionone.com/Resources/Webinars)

More info on the Agile Manager (metrics) track here.
(http://www.versionone.com/Resources/Webinars)

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Testers: The Hidden Resource - Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory have recently posted an article on InformIT, the website for the publisher of their book "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams".

The lead-in from the article:
"Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory point out the hidden asset on many development teams: the testers. By learning from agile teams, software teams using any type of development methodology can improve their use of testers and testing."

Read the article here.
(http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1322400)

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Propose a Session for Agile 2009 in Chicago - Deadline is March 3, 2009

Do you have a story to tell about the implementation of Agile practices? Do you want to share your knowledge with the community? Propose a session for the Agile conference of the year. As an example, if you are a VersionOne customer, chances are you have the makings of a session for the Distributed Agile stage.

Agile 2009 is happening August 24-28th in Chicago, IL.

Find out how to propose a session or learn more here.
(http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/welcome)