In This Issue

• The Current Direction of Agile
  Jon Arild Tørresdal for InfoQ
• Jim Highsmith Interview
  Israel Gat for InformIT
• Bolstering the Backlog
  Ryan Shriver's Blog - "The Agile Engineer"
• 4th Annual State of Agile Survey
  Take Part Here
• Upcoming Webinar: Brent Barton on Agile EVM
  Sept 2nd - Live

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The Current Direction of Agile - Jon Arild Tørresdal for InfoQ

This article focuses on some of the recent trends within the Agile community by briefly describing some alternatives to today’s well known Agile processes. Particularly focusing on estimation, forecasting deliverables and the increased impact Lean manufacturing has had on the Agile community.

Read the article here.
(http://www.infoq.com/articles/current-direction-of-agile)

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Jim Highsmith Interview - Israel Gat for InformIT

Israel Gat talks with Jim Highsmith, author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition, about why he wrote a new edition of the book, approaches to Agile development, Agile adoption, risk-mitigation strategies, and more.

Read the interview here.
(http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1383183)

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Bolstering the Backlog - Ryan Shriver's Blog "The Agile Engineer"

Ryan Shriver summarizes his latest article on Gantthead about the introduction of a "Results Backlog". He explores how Agile teams can measure business value using a “Results Backlog” in conjunction with the Product Backlog.

Read his blog post here
(http://tinyurl.com/bolsterbacklog)

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4th Annual State of Agile Survey - Open for participation

Take part in the largest Agile survey - Open now through the end of September. Last year there were over 3000 respondents from 82 countries making the State of Agile survey truly a global representation of Agile methods within organizations large and small. Make sure your experiences are part of the aggregated results

Learn more and take the survey here.
(http://surveys.versionone.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1299357&ext_ref=221)

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Using AgileEVM to Implement Project Portfolio Management
Brent Barton, CTO of SolutionsIQ

September 2nd: 12:00-1:00pm ET
Among the topics covered in this live webinar:

• What is AgileEVM? How does it fit within the Scrum process? Why should we use it to measure project performance?
• How is AgileEVM computed? How do we interpret the results?
• How can we use AgileEVM metrics within a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) process? How does it meet the requirements of the ANSI standard for PPM?

Learn more and register here.
(http://www.versionone.com/Resources/Webinars/Agile_Project_Management.asp#SolutionsIQ)