This is Lisa Crispin, brilliant Agile tester and author, trainer, and early adopter of Agile In A Flash. Here you see her sharing deep testing insights with Jo, Edgar and Chester.
No animals were harmed or insulted in the making of this blog post.
Card-carrying Agile Tester
This is Lisa Crispin, brilliant Agile tester and author, trainer, and early adopter of Agile In A Flash. Here you see her sharing deep testing insights with Jo, Edgar and Chester.
No animals were harmed or insulted in the making of this blog post.
Agile On A Desk
Dave Rooney, a card-carrying friend of Agile In A Flash, walked into a manager's office and what do you suppose he saw?
The astute observer will see all the cards are marked with either the compass rose ("The Plan" section) or else a waving pennant ("The Team" section). We intended those two sections to be especially interesting and useful for managers.
It does our hearts good to see Agile In A Flash in use. Your encouragement is always welcome here, in pictures, comments, tweets, purchases, or referrals!
The astute observer will see all the cards are marked with either the compass rose ("The Plan" section) or else a waving pennant ("The Team" section). We intended those two sections to be especially interesting and useful for managers.
It does our hearts good to see Agile In A Flash in use. Your encouragement is always welcome here, in pictures, comments, tweets, purchases, or referrals!
Card-carrying Professional Scrum Developer Trainer
This is Andreas Ebbert-Karroum who is busy in Germany, leading codecentrics Agile Software Factory. He looks very happy to have his Agile In A Flash deck.
Card-carrying Team Effectiveness Amplifier
Can you feel how the warmth of his personality radiates from this picture? Yeah, he's like that in person.
Restoring The Trust
Make sure you see Uncle Bob Martin's video Restoring The Trust, about the agile balance. A certain deck of cards is prominently featured (thanks, Bob!) in the opening and closing moments.
There are a few other cards relating to balance, but clearly the Manifesto card is very close to Bob's heart, as he is one of the original authors and signers of the both Craftsman and Agile manifestos.
There are a few other cards relating to balance, but clearly the Manifesto card is very close to Bob's heart, as he is one of the original authors and signers of the both Craftsman and Agile manifestos.
Card-carrying Seer of System Dynamics
This is Esther Derby, a management consultant and Agilist who is helping companies to put a more human face on software development. We highly recommend her conference talks and blog. Here Esther has a brand-new deck of "Agile in a Flash" and a happy smile.
What's On Your Wall?
Tim describes how the Agile In A Flash cards help make his workspace more informative.
Agile in a Flash Card Index
In order to keep Agile in a Flash very low cost and actually make a buck or two, Tim and I were pressured to keep the number of cards to a very minimum. That's why you'll see no author bios, for example, and no index / table of contents. (Of course, if the book takes off and you buy bajillions of copies, we can likely justify an index.)
Without further ado, here's the index of cards (which also tells you, by omission, which blog entries here are not in this deck--if, uh, all goes well with sales, we'll be doing a second deck):
The Idea:
Without further ado, here's the index of cards (which also tells you, by omission, which blog entries here are not in this deck--if, uh, all goes well with sales, we'll be doing a second deck):
The Idea:
- Why Agile?
- The Agile Values, aka the Agile Manifesto
- Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
- Role-Playing in Agile
- Agile Success Factors
- Courage
- Redefining Discipline
- Pillars of Software Craftmanship
- Toyota Production System (TPS) Principles
- The Right Process
- Got Organizational Obstinance?
- Got Individual Obstinance
- Don't Get Too Deep in Technical Debt
- Incremental Everything
- Embrace Change
- Reach Consensus on Story Priority
- INVEST in Your Stories
- Categorize Requirements with FURPS
- Sail on the Three C's
- Shrink XL Stories to Fit
- Acceptable Acceptance Tests
- Acceptance Test Design Principles
- Story Estimation Fundamentals
- A Winning Hand for Planning Poker
- Iterate with Principle
- Communication-SMITH with Information Radiators
- Shu-Ha-Ri
- The Only Agile Tools You'll Ever Need
- Successful Stand-up Meetings
- ABCs of Pair Programming
- Retrospectives
- When Not Pairing
- How to Be a Team Player
- Collective Code Ownership
- Coding Standards
- Is Your Team Circling the Drain?
- Pair Programming Smells
- Stop the Bad Test Death Spiral
- How to Stay Valuable
- Eight Crucial Practices of Agile Programmers
- Build Superior Systems with Simple Design
- The Seven Code Virtues
- ReallyMeaningful Names
- The TDD Cycle
- FIRST Properties of Unit Tests
- Triple A for Tight Tests
- Prevent Code Rot Through Refactoring
- Refactoring Inhibitors
- Field Guide to Mocks
- Break Unit Test Writer's Block
- Test Double Troubles
- TDD Process Smells
How to use the deck
People have been asking how to best use the cards in their teams.
We've had several notes via twitter or email about teams reading and discussing them at retrospectives or standup, and even using them in lightning talks at conferences. We are happy to see them used in this way.
But people have been asking how normal, individual, non-coach team members can use the cards. Jeff provides our recipe for use of Agile in a Flash:
Please share and discuss the cards with your community, starting with the local software team and its neighbors but extending to conferences, user groups, or any other willing listeners. New insights can come from anywhere.
We've had several notes via twitter or email about teams reading and discussing them at retrospectives or standup, and even using them in lightning talks at conferences. We are happy to see them used in this way.
But people have been asking how normal, individual, non-coach team members can use the cards. Jeff provides our recipe for use of Agile in a Flash:
- Pick a card that's relevant and read its front
- Read the back
- Re-read the front to help ingrain the short list
- Consider tacking the card up, so that it's in your face, helping you ingrain the concepts
- Seek and re-read related cards to get a more complete picture of the topic
- Visit the corresponding post here on the blog site if you seek more detail on the topic and why we said some of the things we did
- Visit the links located on many of the cards and at the blog site if needed
Please share and discuss the cards with your community, starting with the local software team and its neighbors but extending to conferences, user groups, or any other willing listeners. New insights can come from anywhere.
Javaranch Event
The Big Moose Saloon welcomes writing team Ottinger and Langr to a special event:
Sit in, ask or answer some questions, see if you can't win your free Agile In A Flash deck. If you don't win one, don't worry. We still have a few left for sale.
This week, we're delighted to have Jeff Langr & Tim Ottinger helping to answer questions about the new book Agile in a Flash. See this page for a description of the book.
The promotion starts Tuesday, February 22th 2011 and will end on Friday, February 25th 2011.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Pragmatic.
Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!
Sit in, ask or answer some questions, see if you can't win your free Agile In A Flash deck. If you don't win one, don't worry. We still have a few left for sale.
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