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The Agile Alliance Blog

Expand your knowledge, stay up-to-date, or rekindle your inspiration through articles by some of the top practitioners in our industry – our members and staff. We invite you to explore the hundreds of posts written by members of our community.

Case Study: How one company replaced micromanagement with team ownership

A real-world Agile case study on shifting from control to team-led delivery with measurable results.

Success Story: Developers and sales, sitting in a tree

Discover how Kloia transformed its sales strategy using Agile values, balancing growth with culture through collaboration, adaptability, and continuous learning.

All you need to know about product roadmaps: A hands-on guide

A product roadmap is a living, collaborative, outcome-focused guide that aligns teams around strategic goals, adapts to change, and prioritizes value over features.

How FAST Agile transformed a stalled Scrum team

How two Scrum teams used FAST Agile to overcome delivery challenges by embracing self-organization and Agile values.

Case Study: How one company replaced micromanagement with team ownership

A real-world Agile case study on shifting from control to team-led delivery with measurable results.

Success Story: Developers and sales, sitting in a tree

Discover how Kloia transformed its sales strategy using Agile values, balancing growth with culture through collaboration, adaptability, and continuous learning.

All you need to know about product roadmaps: A hands-on guide

A product roadmap is a living, collaborative, outcome-focused guide that aligns teams around strategic goals, adapts to change, and prioritizes value over features.

Agile Alliance Event Sessions Videos

Learn from insights and experiences shared at Agile Alliance events and conferences. View all Event Session Videos

Reimagining Agility Workshop at Agile2025

Agile practitioners at the 2025 Agile Conference collaborated to solve the community's "wicked problems," generating new approaches to scaling value, integrating AI, fostering innovation, and transforming education.

Enterprise Agility Panel Discussion

The Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative was announced at Agile2025 to define organizational-level agility for today's dynamic enterprises.

Jim Highsmith on the New Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative

Jim Highsmith explores how true enterprise agility means enabling adaptability across organizations, not just scaling Agile practices.

Reimagining Agility Workshop at Agile2025

Enterprise Agility Panel Discussion

The Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative was announced at Agile2025 to define organizational-level agility for today's dynamic enterprises.

Jim Highsmith on the New Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative

Jim Highsmith explores how true enterprise agility means enabling adaptability across organizations, not just scaling Agile practices.

Agile Young Professionals Launch

The Agile Young Professionals Committee launch event featured discussions on intergenerational collaboration and emotional intelligence, and empowering young professionals through networking, webinars, and career insights.

Member Initiatives and Programs

Driven by Agile values and fueled by our volunteers’ efforts, our programs and initiatives are made possible by your membership.

Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative

Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative The purpose of the Agiledemics Initiative is to promote Agile education in academics (students and educators in schools, colleges, and universities) through community-based hubs. […]

Agile Sustainability Initiative

The Agile Sustainability Initiative provides knowledge and inspiration to enable action regarding sustainability to the (broader) Agile community.

Agile in Color Initiative

Purpose The overall goal of this initiative is to provide targeted career and professional development opportunities for global POC members of the Agile Alliance community. These learning opportunities will be […]

Growing Racial Equity

Agile Alliance stands firmly and wholeheartedly in support of the Black community, and in the ongoing fight for racial justice and equity around the world.

Agiledemics – Agile In Academics Initiative

Agile Sustainability Initiative

The Agile Sustainability Initiative provides knowledge and inspiration to enable action regarding sustainability to the (broader) Agile community.

Agile in Color Initiative

Agile Alliance Experience Reports

The Agile Experience Report Program promotes the writing and sharing of firsthand Agile experiences.

FAST – Just Do It!

Collaboration, Team driven Adaptation and Happiness: Single Team FAST in a Scrum Cadence under SAFe This experience report explores how a distributed infrastructure team successfully implemented FAST (Fluid Adaptive Scaling […]

IBM Sales Cloud: Transforming the way we sell globally

This IBM experience report focuses on providing insights from one of the largest Salesforce CRM transformations executed in the world.

Escaping The Retrospective Theatre – How to Make Real Impact Again

This experience report explores the journey of two Scrum Masters as they experimented with different approaches to create impactful retrospectives.

Breaking Down the Wall Between Dev and Ops at George

Like many large and historic organizations, Erste Bank has faced challenges digitizing operations. This paper examines challenges faced at George, Erste Bank’s online and mobile banking application, that we think […]

FAST – Just Do It!

IBM Sales Cloud: Transforming the way we sell globally

This IBM experience report focuses on providing insights from one of the largest Salesforce CRM transformations executed in the world.

Escaping The Retrospective Theatre – How to Make Real Impact Again

This experience report explores the journey of two Scrum Masters as they experimented with different approaches to create impactful retrospectives.

Agile Alliance Member Books

Browse a collection of Agile-related books written or recommended by Agile Alliance members.

Agile how to: Thrive as a Development Team Member in Scrum and Kanban

The CLEAR Enterprise: A Simplified Path to Organizational Resilience

Ridgemoor – A novel exploration of Agile benefits & blockers

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Agile Kata: Patterns and Practices for Transformative Organizational Agility

Agile how to: Thrive as a Development Team Member in Scrum and Kanban

The CLEAR Enterprise: A Simplified Path to Organizational Resilience

Ridgemoor – A novel exploration of Agile benefits & blockers

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Agile Games – formerly known as Tasty Cupcakes

A collection of Instructions, techniques, and approaches for interactive games that provides fuel for invention and learning!

Unlocking Team Creativity: The Elementalist’s Enigma Escape Room Icebreaker

“The Elementalist’s Enigma” is an engaging and innovative team-building activity that serves as a perfect icebreaker for any group, whether it be in a corporate setting, a classroom, or a social gathering.

Everyone is right, only partially

Exploring Perspectives, Improving Relationships The quality of the relationships between people is directly related to how much they trust each other, and trust (as a manifestation of Psychological Safety) is […]

CLUE: The Retro

This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the board game Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use […]

What you think is what you get (WYTIWYG)

A mindfulness exercise that helps us to take the stance of not-knowing and to recognize how quickly we let ourselves be guided by our first impression. With this bias we often miss the chance to explore alternatives and thus leave even much better solutions uncovered.

Unlocking Team Creativity: The Elementalist’s Enigma Escape Room Icebreaker

Everyone is right, only partially

CLUE: The Retro

This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the board game Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use […]

Glossary of Agile Terms

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile development from the experts at Agile Alliance.

Mock Objects

Mock Objects (commonly used in the context of crafting automated unit tests) consist of instantiating a test-specific version of a software component.

Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)

Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) involves team members with different perspectives (customer, development, testing) collaborating to write acceptance tests in advance of implementing the corresponding functionality.

Business Agility

Business agility is the ability of an organization to sense changes internally or externally and respond accordingly in order to deliver value to its customers.

Customer Development

Customer development is a four-step framework, originally identified by Steve Blank, to discover and validate that you have identified a need(s) that customers have built the right product to satisfy […]

Three Amigos

Three amigos refers to the primary perspectives to examine an increment of work before, during, and after development. Those perspectives are: Business - What problem are we trying to solve? Development - How might we build a solution to solve that problem? Testing - What about this, what could possibly happen?

The Three C’s

"Card, Conversation, Confirmation" is a formula that captures the social nature of user stories.

Iteration

An iteration is a timebox during which development takes place. The duration may vary from project to project and is usually fixed.

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