In This Issue

• The Fallacy of “One Throat to Choke”
  Mike Cohn
• The Tyranny of "The Plan"
  Presentation by Mary Poppendieck
• Agile Project Management Questions Answered
  Blog post from Kelly Waters
• Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
  Presentation by Dean Leffingwell

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The Fallacy of “One Throat to Choke” - Mike Cohn

In this blog post, Mike Cohn discusses his desire to get rid of the idea of "One throat to choke" or the "single wringable neck". A short but worthwhile read, this post as some good follow on comments.

Read the blog post here.
(http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/the-fallacy-of-one-throat-to-choke)

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The Tyranny of "The Plan" - Mary Poppendieck

This presentation (video) is from the UK Lean Conference in September. It is a good introduction to lean thinking on a foundation of core agile principles. A flow system requires focus on reliable handoffs and system throughput, not on utilization. It requires creative people who vigilantly address problems and improve the workflow. It requires a leadership team that understands "Results are Not the Point" - the real point is to create a system and grow people who are capable of delivering excellent results over the long term.

View the presentation here.
(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/tyranny-of-plan)

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Agile Project Management Questions Answered - Kelly Waters' blog

Kelly Waters answers the following agile project management questions for PM Boulevard as reprinted on his blog:

1. How has the Agile practice evolved over the last two years?
2. What would you tell someone who thinks Agile is just another fad?
3. What are some tools that you use?
4. Do you think that Agile and the PMBOK can coexist?
5. Can you recommend a book, blog, podcast, Web site, or other information source to our readers that you find interesting or intriguing right now?

Read the post here.
(http://www.agile-software-development.com/2009/11/agile-project-management-questions.html)

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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises - Dean Leffingwell

Dean describes team practices that scale to the enterprise, including structuring agile teams, mastering the iteration, concurrent testing and continuous integration. Dean also describes intentionally emergent architectures, lean requirements at scale, coordinating releases with the agile release train, agile training and rollout strategies and measuring business performance.

View the presentation here.
(http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-best-practices)