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Product Owners in the Enterprise

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Saturday, 09 May 2009 01:00
Product Owners in the Enterprise  - February 2009First of all, my apologies for this month's late issue. We've been working to get the new Agile Journal website up and running and it took a little longer than we expected, but the Agile Journal V2.0 is here at last!feb-09-product2big

The Agile Journal's new home is much more than a place to read high quality articles on the practice of agile development. Some of the content is still being populated and will rely on you, the community members, to make it more valuable.

The first thing you will want to do at the new agileJournal.com is to create a profile. That way you can setup a blog, post in the forums and gain access to premieum content like the educational video series.
- www.agilejournal.com/community/sign-up

V2.0 is designed from the ground up with a new infrastructure and many new features with the agile community in mind. It is designed to be a networking site much like Facebook or Plaxo where you can share your ideas with others about anything agile. In fact you already link up to your twitter account and will soon be able to link your facebook account too. If you have a resource to share add it to the resources directory. Start a blog and share your thoughts. Post your questions in the forums to see what others have done. If you are into video there are educational videos available in the media center and you can also record your own and upload it just like YouTube. The most important part of all this however is that this site is for you. If there is something that should change or be added let us know and we'll get it fixed. We want to hear your feedback. Thank you for being a member of the Agile Journal community and please feel free to contact us at anytime to share your t  houghts.

As for the articles in this issue, we've got an article Dean Leffingwell on the product owner role in large organizations, another comic strip from Chris Matts delving into the details of the last responsible moment, an article discussing continuous testing - a hybrid of TDD and CI - from Rod Coffin and many more.

As always, thanks for reading and being part of the community!

Amr Elssamadisy
Editor in Chief
Agile Journal

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