The Agile Alliance

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The Agile Alliance

• By Mark Rucker

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The Agile Alliance

• What is the Agile Alliance?

• History of the Agile Alliance

• What is the Agile Alliance today?

• The Agile Software Development Methodology
• Extreme Programming (XP)

• Who is a member and do I want to be a one?

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What is the Agile Alliance?
The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization
that supports individuals and organizations who
use agile approaches to develop software.
(www.agilealliance.com)
Why should I care?
More than two-thirds of all corporate IT
organizations will use some form of agile
software development process within 18 months.
Giga Information Group predicted this week at its
application development conference here.
(Sliwa,2002)
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History of the Agile Alliance
Heavy methodologies
Light methodologies
1995
1990
1995
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History of the Agile Alliance

• Light Methodologies
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• SCRUM
• Feature-Driven Design (FDD)
• Adaptive Software Development
• Crystal
• Pragmatic Programming
• DSDM
• Etc.

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History of the Agile Alliance
2000,2001 big years for Agile Alliance

• Meeting of XP and light proponents in spring of
  2000

• Bob Martin suggests a second meeting in early 2001

• Wiki created late 2000

• February 2001 Agile Manifesto Created

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History of the Agile Alliance
Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are
uncovering better ways of developing software by
doing it and helping others do it. Through this
work we have come to value Individuals and
interactions over processes and tools Working
software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract
negotiation Responding to change over following
a plan That is, while there is value in the
items on the right, we value the items on the
left more. Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van
Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham,
Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim
Highsmith,Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern,
Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin,Steve Mellor, Ken
Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas
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What is the Agile Alliance today?
Big and Growing Fast
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What is the Agile Alliance today?
The Agile Alliance has 1651 members world wide
The Agile Alliance has 36 corporate members world
wide
There are 75 Agile development user groups world
wide
There are countless signatories of the agile
manifesto
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What is the Agile Alliance today?

• 2001,2002 XP Universe

• 2003,2004 XP Universe

• 2003,2004 Agile
• Development Conference

• 2005,2006 Agile200x

Provided by Ted Little, Agile2006 Program Director
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What is the Agile Alliance today?
Programs the Agile Alliance is active in today

• Agile Narratives Program

• Academic Research Program

• Agile Seminars Program

• Conference Sponsorship Program

• Speaker Reimbursement Program

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The Agile Software Development Methodology
Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools Working software over comprehensive
documentation Customer collaboration over
contract negotiation Responding to change over
following a plan
XP, how it looks when the methodology is actually
used
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The Agile Software Development Methodology
Extreme Programming is a discipline of software
development based on values of simplicity,
communication, feedback, and courage. It works by
bringing the whole team together in the presence
of simple practices, with enough feedback to
enable the team to see where they are and to tune
the practices to their unique situation
(Jefferies,2004)
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The Agile Software Development Methodology
Structure of an XP project

• 3 teams customer team, programmer team, and
  management team

• Programmers code in pairs

• XP follows a repeating two week cycle

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The Agile Software Development Methodology
Core Practices
(Jefferies, 2004)
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Who is a Member and do I Want to be one?

• Cost of membership
• Full Membership 100
• Hardship Membership 50
• Student Membership 20
• Academic Membership 50
• DSDM members Membership 50

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Who is a Member and do I Want to be one?

• Benefits of membership
• Registration at the Agile2006 conference is
  cheaper
• Free subscription to Better Software magazine
• Space on this site to publish your own content
• Support for your local user group
• The ability to form programs that are sponsored
  by the Agile Alliance
• The ability to volunteer to work on existing
  programs, including this website
• Connections