Best Agile Advice Articles – Ten Year Anniversary!

Agile Advice was started in 2005.  In ten years, we have published over 850 articles (an average of just about 2 per week!).  Here are some collections of the ten “best” articles.  I hope you enjoy looking back at (or discovering for the first time!) some of the things that have made this such a great joy for me.

Ten Most Popular Agile Advice Articles

1. How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks (75,000+ visits)
2. The Seven Core Practices of Agile Work (25,000+ visits)
3. Eight Barriers to Effective Listening (17,000+ visits)
4. Seven Essential Teamwork Skills (17,000+ visits)
5. 24 Common Scrum Pitfalls Summarized (15,000+ visits)
6. Mentoring and Coaching: What is the Difference? (14,000+ visits)
7. Wideband Delphi Estimation Technique (14,000+ visits)
8. The Pros and Cons of Short Iterations (13,000+ visits)
9. Three Concepts of Value Stream Mapping (13,000+ visits)
10. Agile Work and the PMBoK Definition of Project (11,000+ visits)

Ten Most Commented Upon Agile Advice Articles

1. 24 Common Scrum Pitfalls Summarized (19 comments)
2. Agile Becomes Easier with Useful Tools (12 comments)
3. Important Words about Scrum and Tools (9 comments)
4. The Skills Matrix and Performance Evaluation on Agile Teams (9 comments)
5. The Definition of Done is Badly Named (8 comments)
6. How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks (7 comments)
7. Agile is Not Communism (7 comments)
8. Agile Tools vs. Agile Books (6 comments)
9. The Decline and Fall of Agile and How Scrum Makes it Hurt More (5 comments)
10. The Planning Game: an Estimation Method for Agile Teams (5 comments)

I also want to acknowledge that there are a number of other contributors to Agile Advice besides me (Mishkin).  These contributors are all experts, all have great experiences, and all are fantastic people to know.  I’m grateful for their contributions since they have all made Agile Advice a better place to browse!

Five Most Frequent Contributors (of Articles, besides Mishkin)

1. Paul Heidema (34 articles)
2. Travis Birch (24 articles)
3. Christian Gruber (19 articles)
4. Mike Caspar (16 articles)
5. Shabnam Tashakour (13 articles)

Plans for the Future – Five Top Ideas for Series

1. Essays on each of the Values and Principles of the Agile Manifesto
2. Summary articles of several Agile methods including Scrum, OpenAgile, Kanban, Crystal, XP, and others
3. Real Agility Program case studies
4. Reviews of other scaling / enterprise Agile frameworks such as Disciplined Agile Delivery, Large Scale Scrum, Enterprise Scrum
5. New guest articles from thought and practice leaders.