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Blogging at StickyMinds.com

I've started a blog on the StickyMinds website; I'll try to post a new entry every week on topics which include software development, process, and testing. 

This brings up the question: "How do I decide which site to use for any given blog post?"  My current strategy is to post the more code and tool-specific items here (such as GWT, Scala, etc.) and post the rest at the StickyMinds blog site.  I'm sure this will change, so watch this space.

Thanks to Joey McAllister and the folks at StickyMinds for this great opportunity.

Great reading on the state of Agile Development

Brian Marick recently gave a keynote at the Agile Development Practices conference; he's posted the text of the speech on his blog.  It's called "Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out", and is a good read about the start of Agile and where teams need to improve.

James Shore posted an entry on his blog entitled "The Decline and Fall of Agile" which gives a similar description of some of the problems many teams trying to adopt Agile have experienced.  Scrum in particular gets a heavy knock, and I've seen similar results in my experience -- a team starts with Scrum and makes significant improvements in their process and planning, but the vast amount of technical debt and bad code drags the project down like a boat anchor.

Both are excellent posts and well worth reading if you're interested in Agile.