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It's August and Agile 2009 is around the corner. Describing the actual adoption of Agile sounds hyperbolic so let's just say that a quite a few developers have caught onto this newfangled method, and it's going to be a big year for the state of the art in Agile. We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago at the show and we already have some juicy embargoed scoops to bring to you in the days before the show so there's no reason to watch your email box for an Agile News update on no particular day. Especially not Monday. Agile is growing and community events are part of that. In addition to Agile 2009, this week there's also Agilepalooza Charlotte, August 14th, with Paul Culling and Agilepalooza Boston. If you haven't been to an Agilepalooza yet check these out, we learned a lot at Agilepalooza San Francisco and they're bringing some of the best Agilist speakers and the local Agile community together in Open Spaces. They're also launching the 4th Annual State of Agile Survey for you to be counted so click here to participate and win prizes. Dinesh Mohata provides an overview of Agile and a deep case study applying it to the chaotic information environment of retail in An Agile Approach To Retail: A Data Intrinsic Development Case Study. This is a great article to get both a good understanding of Agile as a whole and a clear idea of how it can tame the complexity of sprawling business data. Last month Allan Kelly looked at the The Role of the Agile Coach and this month he explains The Role of the Product Owner. He shows why Scrum deliberately doesn't define how this job is done and proceeds to explain how this is done anyways by working mostly behind the scenes. Rachel Davies also brings a blog about Agile Coaching: Coach Towards Your Exit . Richard Stobart brings us a no nonsense appraisal of pair programming by eating his own dog food and putting his money where his mouth is: Pair programming teams on fixed budget projects for external clients. Daniel Rioux shows that even geology can get agile with Mining Scrum: Modeling the Earth one iteration at a time. He shows how agile methods drove the creation of technology that can see what is in the ground to prioritize digging sites, much like a product owner prioritizing the backlog. Chris Matts follows last month's comic finale with Feature Injection - The Afterlude, going beyond feature Injection to fit it in as part of Business Analysis as a Knowledge Management Process. Brad Appleton reviews Running an Agile Software Development Project by Mike Holcombe, an academic entrepreneur who ran an “agile software development factory” of students. Far from being too academic, it describes very much the practical, real-world results of running agile projects with those same people for real IT software development work. As the Agile Journal editor, I want to see you in Chicago at Agile 2009 so we can gather and prioritize the user stories of the cutting edge in software development. Alex Peake Editor in Chief Agile Journal
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