Has Agile Adoption Peaked?
My June 2008 column in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Has Agile Peaked?, is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/207600615?cid=Ambysoft . During the last week of

Evolving Agile -- Videocast from JavaPolis 2007
At JavaPolis 2007, held in Antwerp in December, I gave a talk entitled"Evolving Agile: Addressing the Uncomfortable Issues that We've Managed to Avoid Until

Architecture and Design World 2008 in Chicago July 21-24 2008
I'll be giving a talk about Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) at the Architecture and Design World 2008 conference being held in Chicago July 21-24. If

Globally Distributed Agile Development
A common question that I often get is how do you do globally distributed development (GDD) in an agile manner. I keynoted on this topic at Software

Repeatable Results over Repeatable Processes
My April newsletter, http://www.ddj.com/architect/207401013?cid=Ambysoft , summarizes results from a January 2008 survey that we did at Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Agile Strategies for Enterprise DW and BI
The April 2008 Cutter IT Journal on"Business Intelligence: With or Without Datawarehousing"includes an article that I co-authored entitled"Agile Stratgies

Agile in the Midwest US:Apr 30 to May 2 2008
Apr 30: Omaha Nebraska Rational User Group, Agile User Group Mutual of Omaha Building, 5-8 pm Scaling Agile Software Development: Strategies for Applying Agile

Scaling Scrum
My May 2008 column describes strategies for Scaling Scrum to meet the real-world needs of project teams. These strategies include: - Look at the complete SDLC,

How Effective are Process Frameworks?
In January 2008 Dr. Dobb's ran a survey which explored the adoption rate and effectiveness of various process frameworks, in particular COBIT, CMMI, ITIL, PMI

Case Study of a Failed Agile Project
My current DDJ print column entitled"Anatomy of a Failed Agile Project"is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/206902744?cid=Ambysoft . The column

A Virtual Free IT Architect Regional Conference: March 20th - 9am PS
A Virtual Free IT Architect Regional Conference: March 20th - 9am PST To Register: http://iasa.brighttalk.com/ Illities and Illiancies: Quality Attributes from

Agile RUP?
The February issue of Rational Edge includes an article entitled"Agile RUP: Experiences from the Trenches"written by Mark Lines, Joshua Barnes, Julian

Agile CMMI?
My February DDJ Newsletter, entitled"Agile CMMI?", summarizes some of the results from a survey that we did in January 2008. The CMMI portion of the survey

Rational Software Developer's Conference, Orlando, June 1-5 2008
Two things: 1. I'll be running two intro to agile workshops at the conference, giving an agile@scale presentation, facilitating an"Agile in the real world"

Agile@Scale blog postings
On my Agile@Scale blog I've made the following two postings recently: 1. Scaling Agile with Risk-Based Milestones at