In This Issue

• Lean Primer Whitepaper (pdf)
  Craig Larman & Bas Vodde
• Deliberate Practice in Software Development
  Mary Poppendieck presentation from Agile 2009
• I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It
  Alistair Cockburn Keynote from Agile 2009
• Story Mapping with Jeff Patton and David Hussman
  Open Jam session from Agile 2009
• 4^th Annual State of Agile Survey
  Take Part Here

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Lean Primer Whitepaper - Craig Larman & Bas Vodde

If you are looking to learn about Lean this is a paper you should read. It is a meaty, comprehensive look and well worth the time. At 40+ pages, this is no high level blog post. Also of note, it is a work in progress - if you are going to share it, please do so by using the link and not the .pdf itself.

Read the paper here.
(http://www.leanprimer.com/downloads/lean_primer.pdf)

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Deliberate Practice in Software Development - Mary Poppendieck

In the nature vs. nurture debate, researchers have declared nurture the winner. People who excel are the ones who work the hardest; it takes ten+ years of deliberate practice to become an expert. Deliberate practice is not about putting in hours, it’s about working to improve performance. It does not mean doing what you are good at; it means challenging yourself under the guidance of a teacher.

View the talk here.
(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/poppendieck-deliberate-practice-in-software-development)

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I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It - Alistair Cockburn Keynote

Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. It has spread to large, globally distributed commercial projects, affecting the IEEE, the PMI, the SEI and the Department of Defense. Agile now sits in a larger landscape and should be viewed accordingly. This talk shows that landscape, clarifying how classical agile fits in and what constitutes effective development outside that narrow area.

View this Agile 2009 keynote here
(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/cockburn-bury-not-praise-agile)

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Story Mapping with Jeff Patton and David Hussman

David Hussman and Jeff Patton convened an Open Jam session at Agile 2009 on Story Mapping. It was very well attended and from all accounts was a highlight. Thanks to Yasunobu Kawaguchi for taking the video and Anders Ramsay for posting for everybody to learn from.

Watch the open jam session unfold here.
(http://www.agileexperiencedesign.org/profiles/blogs/story-mapping-with-jeff-patton)

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4th Annual State of Agile Survey - Time is running out

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)