Sighting Report


From an undisclosed location in Des Moines, Iowa, comes this sighting report. It is likely a book store, judging by intact plastic wrap and "Alphabetical By Author" sticker on shelf. It also looks like they're down to their last copy. Snag it now, before their supply is totally exhausted!

Card-Carrying Mad Railer


David van Leeuwen, Card-carrying Mad Railer, shows off the new deck of Agile In A Flash that he won in a drawing at the Madison, WI conference.

Lisa Crispin and Courage at Belgium Testing Days

Our deck of cards makes a surprise appearance at Belgium Testing Days 2011 thanks to Lisa Crispin and her experience with the Courage card.

It is pleasing to see the cards having a supporting role in the lives of respected professionals, and to see them appear in a testing conference instead of a more predictable place like an Agile or programming conference. Markus Gärtner provides descriptions of several talks in this blog.

Card-Carrying agile author


Jeff Langr, programmer geek and computer addict shows off his Agile in a Flash deck in front of a warm fire in Colorado Springs. Look, Ma, no shrink-wrap! Tim, have you opened yours yet???

Card-Carrying Embedded Software Engineer


Card-carrying embedded-software engineer James Grenning, fellow-author, fellow-ex-ObjectMentor consultant, owner of Renaissance Software, great guy.  Here James shows off his deck of cards at a Starbucks near Mundelein, IL.  Doing embedded software, but don't know how to do it test-first? See James Grenning (and buy his book Test Driven Development for Embedded C to be released very soon).

Card-carrying Rocketeers


Card-carrying Hash Rocket team members show off their deck of Agile In A Flash cards gifted to them at their office in Chicago.  They are a really great, kind, competent group of people worthy of your business. Tim loves their open workspace and open hearts.

Card-carrying Django Developer


Card-carrying Django developer, Cezar Jenkins, shows off the autographed deck he won at the Chicago Python users group meeting. His superior memory allowed him to edge out the other attendees and seize the prize!

Card-carrying Agile Author


Card-carrying agile author and programmer, Tim Ottinger, smugly shows his plastic-wrapped Agile In A Flash deck at home.  Tim is the originator of the Agile In A Flash concept, and co-author of the deck with Jeff Langr (without whom this project would have died on the vine). Feeling smug? You betcha.

Card-carrying software journeyman






Card-carrying software journeyman, Corey Haines, shows off his deck and a broad smile at a Chicago Starbucks outlet.

Getting the Word Out

By now, many of our readers (perhaps all) have recieved copies of the Agile In A Flash. The feedback we have received has been very positive and we are very encouraged. I understand that a few decks even traveled to the Agile Manifesto event in Salt Lake City.

Our goal is to get this tool into the hands of coaches, trainers, managers, product owners, and development teams all over the world. Since the book has only been out for less than one month, we don't have a lot of information about our sales, but we know from twitter that we are selling on several continents and that people are finding value in the books.

Our goal is to get the cards in the hands of the people who are really doing the work: your project team and its neighbors in the business where you work. If you are interested in helping promote the Agile In A Flash project:
  • Let your employers know that you are getting value from the deck, and maybe ask to outfit the whole team!
  • If you are a member of a user group or software interest group of any kind, talk to us about promotional give-aways. We might hook you up with discount coupons or maybe even a deck or two. 
  • On Feb 22, Java Ranch is holding a promotional event for us. Join us!
  • A review at your favorite on-line book retailer will encourage others to try Agile In A Flash.
  • Keep us in your tweets and status updates.
  • Send us a "Card Carrying" picture. We'll post them here. Maybe someone will be inspired!
  • Send us your great promotional ideas. We're all ears.
  • This blog could use a Digg or Reddit or HackerNews vote.
  • Vote us up at CodeBix