Great agile, scrum, lean and kanban online resources from December 2009

This will be a monthly feature during 2010 and beyond.  I’m going to give you some blog posts, articles and popular items from right here that I think are interesting enough to share.  There is plenty of good stuff here, so take your time exploring…

Lots of great blog postings this month.  Below are a few I found intriguing enough to share:

• Mike Cottmeyer on what to focus on during agile adoption.
• Johanna Rothman on agile managers as generalists.
• Mike Cohn on agile design.
• Elisabeth Hendrickson talks about a definition of agile.
• Israel Gat on the business value of agile methods.
• Syed Rayhan on the SaaS Product Owner.
• Mike Cohn on not blaming only the Product Owner.
• Ash Maurya on Flow.
• Five Why’s on influence of XP vs. Scrum.
• Social, Agile and Transformation on failing fast, often and cheap.
• Johanna Rothman on ideal team size and ratios.
• Gojko Adzic on agile adoption.
• William Wake on embracing commitment.
• Diana Larson on values, principles and practices.
• Rob Bowley on agile needing fixing.
• Boris Gloger on not having a ScrumMaster be Product Owner.
• Laszlo Szalvay on personal heroics vs. team success.
• Ron Jeffries on the difficult inherent in inspect and adapt.
• Ralph Jocham on agile being about deliverables.
• Jason Yip on a small change to the agile manifesto.

There were some excellent online articles as well:

•  Agile Journal review of 5 new agile books.
• Scrum Alliance Fun Driven Development.
• Kanban Distilled for Managers
• InfoQ when the ScrumMaster becomes the impediment.
• Harvard Business Review The Builder’s Manifesto.
• Agile Journal Implementing Agile.
• Dr. Dobbs Journal 2009 Agile Update.
• Cutter Consortium 2010 Predictions.

The 5 biggest hits on this blog were:

• New to agile? Keep it very simple
• Agile antipattern: taking on large stories
• Agile antipattern: burndown charts that hide the truth
• Agile antipattern: burndown wall
• New to agile? Learn how to split stories

Tune in on February 1 to see what I liked in January 2010!

Until next time I’ll be Making Agile a Reality^® by keeping people informed of interesting blogs and articles that can help them!

If you have ideas for other blogs or articles that caught your attention please leave a comment below so the rest of us can see it too!