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The business case for agile - may 2009Welcome to the May, 2009 edition of the Agile Journal. As always we’ve got a lineup of great articles that will help you understand, apply, and adapt Agile software techniques to your day-to-day environment. To start us off this month, John Rudd, the CFO of Solutions IQ, writes about the bottom-line value of Agile practices in The Business Case For Agility. He describes how different aspects of agility – especially reducing work in process – can help reduce investment and lead time in an organization.  Laszlo Szalvay is back with the second article in his introductory series to Scrum. In How Scrum Generates Increased Productivity, Part Two, Laszlo takes a look at arguably the most critical role on a Scrum team – that of the product owner. Read this article to get an introduction to the responsibilities of a product owner and understand how that leads to the promised gains of Scrum.Dan Mezick in Scrum and SVO-p will have you thinking hard about your vocabulary. Dan relates the structure of our sentences that we use for everyday communication to our effectiveness in facing reality and ties that directly to the values espoused by Scrum. This is a must read article that addresses the foundations of effective communication. Robert Williams digs deep in Three Strategies for Task Allocation to describe different patterns teams split up their work during an iteration. This is an insightful article that weighs the pros and cons of different task allocation strategies and their effects on team productivity, accountability, and self-organization. Chris Matts has put together another comic strip for us on Feature Injection and furthers our understanding of feature injection, requirements gathering and their proper timing. Brad Appleton reviews Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory and is very excited about the book and can’t recommend it enough. Finally, this issue is my last issue as editor in chief of the Agile Journal. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to help bring these marvelous ideas of our writers to the community. If you need to contact me, you can do so on my website at http://www.elssamadisy.com/contact-amr.html. Amr Elssamadisy Editor in Chief Agile Journal
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