Who is agile? Volume 1
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Who is agile? Volume 1

A book of personal reflections on journeys where people stumbled on agile.

About the Book

In 2011, the agile manifesto turned 10 years old. Some of the agile methodologies are even 5 to 10 year older. In the agile world, we pay a lot of attention to the people in the teams. Thanks to mailing lists and social media, agile leaders are very approachable. Yet we don't know them. This book gives you access to learn a little more about agilists. You will find all kinds of people in this book, people who have been on the Agile Alliance board, Gordon Pask Award winners, Scrum masters, Scrum trainers, people who started movements, people who organized agile conferences, famous authors, hard core teammembers, etc.You will also read about people who don't consider themselves agilists. They are in this book because they have inspired agilists, and we dare to say that they actually agree with what we call an agile mindset.

All these people have 2 things in common: they are interesting people and they have remarkable stories.

Yves send them all the same set of questions and asked them to select an extra question from someone else.The answers have been posted on Yves' blog for a while. The book contains one extra answer, per person.

We have finished adding people to the book. It now contains answers from 89 people.

When we have finished and polished the book, we take a nice break and then start of Volume 2 https://leanpub.com/WhoisagileVolume2

(The "Who is" backlog contains +250 people, the order of publication is in order of answers received.)

These are the questions we asked:

What is something people usually don’t know about you but has influenced you in who you are?If you would not have been in IT, what would have become of you?What is your biggest challenge and why is it a good thing for you?What drives you ?What is your biggest achievement?What is the last book you have read?What question do you think I should also ask and what is the answer?What question of one of the co-authors do you also want to answer?Who should be the next person to answer these questions?

Have fun reading their answers.

Andrea Chiou, Peter Doomen, Marcin Floryan, Yves Hanoulle

Europe 2012

This is what other people say about the book:

Johnnos Nose: http://johnnosnose.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/returning-to-who-is-agile.htmlJohanna Rothmann: http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2012/02/who-is-agile-a-book-on-leanpub.htmlShane Hastie from InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/agile-who-whoThe podcast: the agile revolution episode 31: http://www.theagilerevolution.com/episode-31-an-apple-a-day Vickie Gray: http://simplerulesandtools.com/2012/06/06/who-is-agile/Portia Tung: http://www.selfishprogramming.com/2012/04/28/who-is-agile/ScrumDesk : http://www.scrumdesk.com/the-book-who-is-agile/

Leanpub Interviewed Yves Hanoulle about the book and the service: http://blog.leanpub.com/2012/05/yves-hanoulle-podcast.html

In 2022, Yves started a video edition of this book on youtube.

About the Editors

YvesHanoulle
YvesHanoulle

The Agile community knows Yves Hanoulle from his many contributions, such as the public Agile conferences Google calendar, his Agile Thursday Quiz, the coach retreats and conferences he’s paired to organize, daily coaching questions via @Retroflections, and the Agile Games Google group, just to name a few. He promoted PairCoaching, an idea which has been adopted by many agile trainers and coaches. He’s constantly learning, and passing on what he learns as a coach and trainer to organizations large and small.

A self-identified change artist and first follower, one of Yves’ unique qualities is that he gives free lifetime support on anything he does: every client, everything he writes and presents, every workshop he leads.

Yves believes in maintaining a sustainable pace both professionally and personally. Yves has parentpair programmed an android game with his 13 year old son www.anguis.be You can learn more about Yves at http://www.hanoulle.be/yves-hanoulle/, and find him on social media as YvesHanoulle.

Andrea Chiou
Andrea Chiou

I am an agile coach working and living in Reston, Virginia who has been studying and using Clean Language, Symbollic Modeling, and Systemic Modeling since 2012. My interest in Clean Language comes from a deep desire to learn to accept each person exactly as they are and to support them in who they want to become. Through clean language I have learned to stay curious, rather than to advise, judge, or fix people, when coaching.  I edit/create the Who Is books because they contribute to this wonderful community and broaden the reach of these tools in a very personal way - through the stories of individuals whose lives these tools have changed. I founded the company Connections At Work, LLC to promote these skills in the workplace as well.

Marcin Floryan
Marcin Floryan

I continually learn to develop better software and to develop software better, to help others do it and to share that knowledge. I like to share my passion and enthusiasm by speaking publicly to communities small and large and occasionally writing some thoughts at http://marcin.floryan.pl/

Working on the Who Is Agile is a great opportunity to help share great stories with the community and yet another opportunity for me to learn. Thank you Yves.

Peter Doomen
Peter Doomen

Peter is a full-time enterprise architect at SD Worx, a leading HR company, and vice president of the Belgian Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects.

In his spare time, he is a wine taster and member of the National Committee of the Flemish Wine Guild (Vlaamse Wijngilde). He is also Editor-in-Chief of Ken Wijn-magazine, the largest Flemish wine magazine, and 2013 National Champagne Ambassador.

Guy Nachimson
Guy Nachimson

A software development professional and an enterprise level agile practitioner.

Amber Ankerholz
Amber Ankerholz

I am a freelance editor with more than 25 years of experience editing technical publications.

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About the Contributors

Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman
Ola Ellnestam
Ola Ellnestam
Marcin Niebudek
Marcin Niebudek
Chris Matts
Chris Matts
yvonne van der laak
yvonne van der laak
 Alan Cyment
Alan Cyment
Mary Poppendieck
Mary Poppendieck
Shane Hastie
Shane Hastie
Jez Humble
Jez Humble
Jonathan Perret
Jonathan Perret
Jenni Jepsen
Jenni Jepsen
Ken Power
Ken Power
Jutta Eckstein
Jutta Eckstein
Jukka Lindstrom
Jukka Lindstrom
Maritza van den Heuvel
Maritza van den Heuvel
Don Gray
Don Gray
Carlo Beschi
Carlo Beschi
Pawel Lipinski
Pawel Lipinski
Michael Dubakov
Michael Dubakov
Jerry Weinberg
Jerry Weinberg
Joke Vande maele
Joke Vande maele
Siddharta Govindaraj
Siddharta Govindaraj
Dhaval Dalal
Dhaval Dalal
Esther Derby
Esther Derby
Rashina Hoda
Rashina Hoda
Yuval Yeret
Yuval Yeret
Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic
Niels Malotaux
Niels Malotaux
Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn
George Dinwiddie
George Dinwiddie
Alexey Krivitsky
Alexey Krivitsky
Bas Vodde
Bas Vodde
Grant Rule
Grant Rule
Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
Elad Sofer
Elad Sofer
Michele Sliger
Michele Sliger
Jean Tabaka
Jean Tabaka
Daniel Teng
Daniel Teng
Dale Emery
Dale Emery
Kenji Hiranabe
Kenji Hiranabe
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Bjarte Bogsnes
Bjarte Bogsnes
Vernon Stinebaker
Vernon Stinebaker
Patrick Debois
Patrick Debois
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Petur Orri Saemunds
Petur Orri Saemunds
Nicole Belilos
Nicole Belilos
Steve Freeman
Steve Freeman
Rowan Bunning
Rowan Bunning
JB Rainsberger
JB Rainsberger
Portia Tung
Portia Tung
Peter Armstrong
Peter Armstrong
Linda Rising
Linda Rising
Naresh Jain
Naresh Jain
Aslam Khan
Aslam Khan
Guy Nachimson
Guy Nachimson
Vickie Gray
Vickie Gray
Patricl Welsh
Patricl Welsh
Maria Diaconu
Maria Diaconu
 Xavier Albaladejo
Xavier Albaladejo
Dusan Kocurek
Dusan Kocurek
Sergei Sergejev
Sergei Sergejev
Julien Mazloum
Julien Mazloum
Brenda Bao
Brenda Bao
Ionel Daniel Condor
Ionel Daniel Condor
Israel Antezana Rojas
Israel Antezana Rojas
Sergey Kotlov
Sergey Kotlov
Mary Beijleveld
Mary Beijleveld
Joshua partogi
Joshua partogi
Asad Safari
Asad Safari
Peter Saddington
Peter Saddington
Renato Willi
Renato Willi
Lisa Crispin
Lisa Crispin
Zuzi Sochova
Zuzi Sochova
Gustavo Quiroz
Gustavo Quiroz
Laurent Bossavit
Laurent Bossavit
Lv yi
Lv yi
Ralph Miarka
Ralph Miarka
Vladimir Tarasoff
Vladimir Tarasoff
Liz Keogh
Liz Keogh
Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall
Oana Juncu
Oana Juncu
Agustin Villena
Agustin Villena
David Harvey
David Harvey
Dennis Stevens
Dennis Stevens
Martin Alaimo
Martin Alaimo
Yves Hanoulle
Yves Hanoulle
Lyssa Adkins
Lyssa Adkins
Masa Maeda
Masa Maeda

Table of Contents

  • What are people saying about the book?
  • Why the “Who is agile” book?
  • Who is Lisa Crispin?
  • Who is Laurent Bossavit?
  • Who is Ralph Miarka?
  • Who is Liz Keogh?
  • Who is Bob Marshall?
  • Who is Oana Juncu?
  • Who is David Harvey?
  • Who is Johanna Rothman?
  • Who is Chris Matts?
  • Who is Mary Poppendieck?
  • Who is Jonathan Perret?
  • Who is Jutta Eckstein?
  • Who is Don Gray?
  • Who is Rebecca Wirfs-Brock?
  • Who is Jerry Weinberg?
  • Who is Esther Derby?
  • Who is Gojko Adzic?
  • Who was Grant Rule?
  • Who is Yves Hanoulle?
  • Who is Mary Beijleveld?
  • Who is George Dinwiddie?
  • Who is Michele Sliger?
  • Who is Dale Emery?
  • Who is Elisabeth Hendrickson?
  • Who is Patrick Debois?
  • Who is Nicole Belilos?
  • Who is J.B. Rainsberger?
  • Who is Linda Rising?
  • Who is Vickie Gray?
  • Who is Dennis Stevens?
  • Who is Lyssa Adkins?
  • Who is Peter Saddington?
  • Who is Zuzi Sochova?
  • Who is Ola Ellnestam?
  • Who is Yvonne van der Laak?
  • Who is Shane Hastie?
  • Who is Jenni Jepsen?
  • Who is Jukka Lindstrom?
  • Who is Carlo Beschi?
  • Who is Joke Vandemaele?
  • Who is Steve Freeman?
  • Who is Niels Malotaux?
  • Who is Rashina Hoda?
  • Who is Alexey Krivitsky?
  • Who is Henrik Kniberg?
  • Who is Jean Tabaka?
  • Who is Kenji Hiranabe?
  • Who is Bjarte Bogsnes?
  • Who is Portia Tung?
  • Who is Naresh Jain?
  • Who is Brenda Bao?
  • Who is Patrick Wilson-Welsh?
  • Who is Dusan Kocurek?
  • Who is Joshua Partogi?
  • Who is Paweł Lipiński?
  • Who is Siddharta Govindaraj?
  • Who is Marcin Niebudek?
  • Who is Alan Cyment?
  • Who is Jez Humble?
  • Who is Ken Power?
  • Who is Maritza van den Heuvel?
  • Who is Michael Dubakov?
  • Who is Dhaval Dalal?
  • Who is Yuval Yeret?
  • Who is Alistair Cockburn?
  • Who is Bas Vodde?
  • Who is Elad Sofer?
  • Who is Vernon Stinebaker?
  • Who is Petur Orri Saemundsen?
  • Who is Rowan Bunning?
  • Who is Guy Nachimson?
  • Who is Xavier Albaladejo?
  • Who is Julien Mazloum?
  • Who is Israel Antezana?
  • Who is Sergey Kotlov?
  • Who is Asad Safari?
  • Who is Renato Willi?
  • Who is Gustavo Quiroz?
  • Who is Lv Yi?
  • Who is Vladimir Tarasow?
  • Who is Daniel Teng?
  • Who is Masa Maeda?
  • Who is Martin Alaimo?
  • Who is Agustin Villena?
  • Who is Ionel Condor?
  • Who is Sergei Sergejev?
  • Who is Maria Diaconu?
  • Who is Aslam Khan?
  • Who is Peter Armstrong?
  • Where are we?
  • What are we reading?
  • How do we connect?
    • The Agile Atlas
    • Agile Beer Drinkups
    • Agile Conferences Calendar
    • Agile Coach Camps
    • Agile Games Google Group
    • Agile Manifesto Translation
    • Agile+?
    • Awesome Coach of the Week
    • Agile Retroflection Of The Day
    • AmazingCompanies
    • Bathtub Conferences
    • Coaching Dojos
    • Coach Retreats
    • Coding Dojos
    • CodeRetreats
    • DevOps
    • Entaggle
    • Free Life Time Support
    • My Daily Thank You
    • PairCoaching
    • PairProgrammingParties
    • Play4Agile
    • Product Camp
    • Visualizing Problems Google Group
    • xALEc
  • What do we care about?
    • Norm Kerth Benefit Fund
    • Agile and Civic Engagement
  • What are we asking?
  • How can you contact these people?
  • Who made this book possible?
  • How to give feedback?
  • In what languages is this book translated?
  • Other books?
  • How many times was this book published?
  • How did we decide on the price for this book?

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