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9July's Agile Journal is here and we've got a variety of perspectives and practitioners with the practical advice and insight to help agilists in thefield set our fellow developers free. We have a new events section on the Agile Journal site (http://www.agilejournal.com/news-a-events/events) where you can announce events of interest to agile software developers and we'll be featuring some of the coolest upcoming meetings of agile minds next month and previewing some of the biggest announcements to come. On the cover this month we have the conclusion of Chris Matts' Feature Injection infocomic series. Part four is called Break the Model and it picks up and dusts off one of the earliest agile techniques in a visually compelling comic book form. These comics combine flow charts and dialog to visualize the interconnectedness of teamwork. Chris Sterling writes about Managing Software Debt to help teams prevent the mistakes of sprints past from haunting your team's future. Sprinting towards features and leaving mistakes to fix at the end just leads to belated debt relief so debt needs to be managed early and often. Laszlo Szalvay of Danube Technologies continues his informative series with How Scrum Generates Increased Productivity, Part Three: The Team. Good scrum masters and product owners work to empower the team itself and Laszlo shows how teams can become more than the sum of their parts. Alan Kelly brings us The Role of the Agile Coach for all those who want to know what coaching brings to the table, what a coach does to unlock a team's potential and how to be an effective coach. Agilists usually recommend coaching for successful adoptions, and this explains why. Asha Anil Kumar has an excellent piece for the enterprise that wants to do scrum right with Principles and Best Practices for Managing a Scrum-Based Agile Program. These practices were refined through large-scale implementations and they can help you with yours. Ryan Fogarty takes a look at the undercurrents in the zeitgeist fueling Agile adoption with Postmodernism In Software Development. There's a sea change happening and Agile is at the crest of that wave. Brad Appleton has tackled a fact-filled book called The Economics of Iterative Software Development which pulls back the subjective veil of agile performance to analyze the measurement of performance with an economist's rigorous tools. Agile 2009 is coming up and numerous big technology releases are being prepared by vendors for announcement in the next couple months. There are going to be many leaps forward for developers and we'll be bringing them to you. As Alan Kay said, The best way to predict the future is to invent it, and It's an exciting time to be covering the innovations that accelerate the invention of the future. Alex Peake Editor in Chief Agile Journal
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