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Expand your knowledge, stay up-to-date, or rekindle your inspiration through articles by some of the top practitioners in our industry – our members and staff. We invite you to explore the hundreds of posts written by members of our community.

7 researched-backed reasons Agile projects falter

Agile projects fail when misapplied, often due to poor risk management, scope creep, wrong methodology, lack of support, or not fully embracing Agile principles.

A storm, a vision, and an Agile mindset

How a real-life log cabin project influenced a team’s approach to Agile, showcasing the power of adaptability, collaboration, and purpose-driven results.

Is Agile the mean girl who’s ruining your life?

If you’re finding it difficult to “be Agile,” there’s a good chance your personality traits are at odds with what thrives in an Agile environment.

Boulders, rocks, pebbles: An Agile model that scales

Nokia’s fractal model scaled Agile by turning rigid requirements into adaptable priorities, highlighting the power of collaboration and responsiveness.

7 researched-backed reasons Agile projects falter

Agile projects fail when misapplied, often due to poor risk management, scope creep, wrong methodology, lack of support, or not fully embracing Agile principles.

A storm, a vision, and an Agile mindset

How a real-life log cabin project influenced a team’s approach to Agile, showcasing the power of adaptability, collaboration, and purpose-driven results.

Is Agile the mean girl who’s ruining your life?

If you’re finding it difficult to “be Agile,” there’s a good chance your personality traits are at odds with what thrives in an Agile environment.

Agile Alliance Event Sessions Videos

Learn from insights and experiences shared at Agile Alliance events and conferences. View all Event Session Videos

The State of Sustainability in Agile 2024

This online MiniCon explored how Agile practices can contribute to a more sustainable and resilient world, with expert speakers addressing social, environmental, and economic aspects of sustainability.

Deliver Better Results: How to Level up Your Value Delivery

You need only 10 strategies to optimize value delivery sustainably, whether product-oriented or project-oriented, traditional or Agile or hybrid, single-team or scaled.

Agile Kata

In this presentation, Joe Krebs focuses on the opportunities the Agile Kata presents to Agile teams and Agile coaches.

The State of Sustainability in Agile 2024

Deliver Better Results: How to Level up Your Value Delivery

You need only 10 strategies to optimize value delivery sustainably, whether product-oriented or project-oriented, traditional or Agile or hybrid, single-team or scaled.

Agile Kata

In this presentation, Joe Krebs focuses on the opportunities the Agile Kata presents to Agile teams and Agile coaches.

A Programmer’s Resistance to the Test-First Approach

Olgica Djuric shares how she starts and writes every single project (or at least 90% of them) using a test-first approach, and how you can too.

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Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative

Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative The purpose of the Agiledemics Initiative is to promote Agile education in academics (students and educators in schools, colleges, and universities) through community-based hubs. […]

Agile Sustainability Initiative

The Agile Sustainability Initiative provides knowledge and inspiration to enable action regarding sustainability to the (broader) Agile community.

Agile in Color Initiative

Purpose The overall goal of this initiative is to provide targeted career and professional development opportunities for global POC members of the Agile Alliance community. These learning opportunities will be […]

Growing Racial Equity

Agile Alliance stands firmly and wholeheartedly in support of the Black community, and in the ongoing fight for racial justice and equity around the world.

Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative

Agile Sustainability Initiative

The Agile Sustainability Initiative provides knowledge and inspiration to enable action regarding sustainability to the (broader) Agile community.

Agile in Color Initiative

Agile Alliance Experience Reports

The Agile Experience Report Program promotes the writing and sharing of firsthand Agile experiences.

Connecting the Dots of Knowledge in Agile Software Development

In this report, we underline the importance of managing knowledge as a resource due to its great potential to create economic value. We walk you through our experience with one industry partner regarding the transformation of knowledge in boundary artifacts.

Keeping schedule while negotiating content on a scale

Agile methods are fixing the timebox while negotiating the content. How do you do that in scale? I faced that problem in 2005 and solved it by inventing a fractal information model that was later adopted worldwide.

Navigating Performance Testing in a semi-Agile Landscape: An Experience Report on Air Travel Information System

The report highlights the efficacy of semi-Agile methodologies in addressing ambiguous non-functional requirements and emphasizes the importance of communication in aligning technical objectives with business goals.

Agile in The Wild: Sustainability by Adopting XP Values in Wildlife Conservation

This experience report details immersive conservation filled with wild experiences to unleash your curiosity by Dr. Caroline Ng’weno, PhD Wildlife Ecologist, and Gladys Ng’weno together with her colleagues from Agile Mavericks LTD.

Connecting the Dots of Knowledge in Agile Software Development

Keeping schedule while negotiating content on a scale

Navigating Performance Testing in a semi-Agile Landscape: An Experience Report on Air Travel Information System

Agile Alliance Member Books

Browse a collection of Agile-related books written or recommended by Agile Alliance members.

Agile Kata: Patterns and Practices for Transformative Organizational Agility

DevSecOps Adventures: A Game-Changing Approach with Chocolate, LEGO, and Coaching Games

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

Agile Games and Simulations

Mastering Lean-Agile Metrics: and Driving Successful Transformation

Agile Kata: Patterns and Practices for Transformative Organizational Agility

DevSecOps Adventures: A Game-Changing Approach with Chocolate, LEGO, and Coaching Games

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

Agile Games and Simulations

Agile Alliance Research Papers

Our Agile research papers are published by Agile Alliance in collaboration with IEEE.

Stakeholder Perceptions of the Adoption of Continuous Integration – A Case Study

Continuous integration is an important support mechanism for the fast delivery of new features. However, its adoption in industry has often been problematic, partly due to social challenges. However, there […]

The Impact of Human Factors on Agile Projects

This research aims to provide more evidence about the impact of human factors in agile software projects. In this light, we have conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to investigate […]

Symbolic Innovation in Agile Transformations

Much of the empirical research on agile transformations concentrates on the success factors for effective change management. Although these factors are essential in establishing beneficial norms and practices, the existing […]

Synthesizing Continuous Deployment Practices Used in Software Development

Continuous deployment speeds up the process of existing agile methods, such as Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) through the automatic deployment of software changes to end-users upon passing of automated […]

Stakeholder Perceptions of the Adoption of Continuous Integration – A Case Study

The Impact of Human Factors on Agile Projects

This research aims to provide more evidence about the impact of human factors in agile software projects. In this light, we have conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to investigate […]

Symbolic Innovation in Agile Transformations

Glossary of Agile Terms

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile development from the experts at Agile Alliance.

Acceptance Testing

An acceptance test is a formal description of the behavior of a software product, generally expressed as an example or a usage scenario. A number of different notations and approaches have been proposed for such examples or scenarios.

TDD

Test-driven development (TDD) is a style of programming where coding, testing, and design are tightly interwoven. Benefits include reduction in defect rates.

Heartbeat Retrospective

The team meets regularly to reflect on the most significant events that occurred since the previous such meeting, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Product Backlog

A product backlog is a list of the new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome.

Acceptance Testing

TDD

Test-driven development (TDD) is a style of programming where coding, testing, and design are tightly interwoven. Benefits include reduction in defect rates.

Heartbeat Retrospective

The team meets regularly to reflect on the most significant events that occurred since the previous such meeting, and identify opportunities for improvement.

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