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Last Responsible Moment - January 2009
 First of all, happy holidays to all of our readers. I hope you had a very restful vacation; I know I did. At the Agile Journal, we're kicking off the new year with one of our most diverse issues so far. Our lead article this month is not an article at all, but a comic strip. Chris Matts, of the Real Options community, has written an engaging description of how to calculate the last responsible moment. The last responsible moment is one of the primary thinking tools in an Agilist's tool belt and can be used on everything from keeping away from Big Upfront Design decisions, to deciding when stories should be played on a backlog, to figuring out when to leave the pub to get home without missing your ride. Next, Accelerating Agile Development through Software Reuse describes a tool that excites my inner developer. The authors describe how those of us who already write our tests first can use those tests to run a code search and locate existing code that not only matches our interface, but passes the tests we've written! I expect that this tool to be on thousands of developer's machines in 2009. Lyssa Adkins has written another of her wonderful articles on coaching teams, and this time she tells us about conflicts that don't go away. Evidently, since Agile teams tend to last longer, they encounter this type of problem more often than traditional teams. Read this article for some strategies that will help your team navigate perpetual conflicts. Tathagat Varma gives us a new perspective on why Agile teams succeed through the lens of addressing the 5 dysfunctions of a team. Perhaps this viewpoint will be useful to share with the executive you are trying to convince to give Agile a try? Joanna Zweig and César Idrovo continue sharing their insights into hyper-productive teams. This month they dig into an essential ingredient of hyper-productive teams, namely common purpose. Furthermore, they describe the lack of common purpose in many decisions made at a typical organization. If you are at an organization that has a few successful Agile projects under its belt, you will find the suggestions in this article very thought-provoking. Juan Alvarado and Anh Kuhn de Chizelle have written side-by-side articles describing the same Scrum pilot from two different vantage points. Juan tells us about the successes and failures of the Scrum team from within, and Anh shares her viewpoint from the program office. The last article in this issue, by yours truly, is a software development satire based on C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. In this first letter, Screwdisk tells Virus how he can undermine an Agile team during its formation. Finally, we are in the final phases of rebuilding the Agile Journal's website and would love your opinion. As always, we welcome and encourage all of our readers to give us feedback and let us know how we are doing. If some of these articles, topics, and/or formats are particularly good, then let us know. If there are things that are annoying, confusing, or just don't work for you also let us know. And, as always, thanks for reading! Amr Elssamadisy Editor in Chief Agile Journal
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