Agile Software Development

Dear readers,

AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com just got a new permanent author - Jurgen Appelo.

Jurgen Appelo is Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany, recently rated as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 50 software developers, development managers, project managers, consultants, quality assurance managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

During more, than three years of its life AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com gathered plenty of posts, comments and ideas. There is already quite some valuable content that that deserves to be visible even though it might be not posted last week. I decided that simple stream of posts isn't good enough anymore and reshuffled the design, trying to make it less cluttered and more useful.

Let me present the monthly list of this site pages the people read most in November.

Most Popular in November 2007

1. Are You Assigning Your Top Engineers to Projects?
2. Weekly Agile Reading. Pack 5
3. Simple Product Backlog Example
4. Scrum Backlog Templates and Examples
5. Simple Sprint Backlog Example

Interpretation

It looks like most of the readers find most useful the concrete examples, very practical advices and the agile blogosphere digest. What do you think? What should we at AgileSoftwareDevelopment concentrate on most?

See also

• Most popular postings in October 2007

This week I am trying to stay as far from the internet as possible. Therefore, I cannot publish a usual weekly summary of the agile blogosphere. Instead let me present a list of of the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com pages people read most.

We've got these small buttons under each post to make it easy to bookmark posts on the del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Google. Please, use them to bookmark the interesting posts - it will help us to see which posts are useful and to write more on what you find important.

Technorati link is for searching for other sites linking to the posts.

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Posting comments on this site used to be not too easy. You could post anonymously, but only from a separate page and without any captcha there was always a risk that a comment could get lost in a ton of spam.

From now on, you can comment right from the post page with a very simple captcha and the comment should be published immediately. There is still a Bayesian filter for capturing clever spammers, though.

What do you think? Can these improvements help the discussion?

We've got the comments feed! From now you can subscribe to the comments posted to agilesoftwaredevelopment.com and follow the discussion.

Technical details: This feed includes only comments to the posts promoted to the site's front page so that you wouldn't be flooded with e.g. forum comments

From now on all the articles on this site got the "Digg it!" button. Please, digg entries that you like, it will help me see what you are interested in and will allow me to write more on the topics that are actually useful for you. Have a look at the latest posts. Are they worth digging?

Ever wanted Google to return poppendieck.com, when you search for Mary?

I was a bit tired of seeing a lot of rugby results, when I search for Scrum related sites and created the Agile Web Search engine. It is built on top of the Google Co-op technology and searches the whole web, while boosting the agility-related sites a bit. It helps me search faster, it might be useful for you as well.

Give Agile Web Search a try. Details and proposals on how the search results are/should be boosted up can be found on the forum.