I’ve been really quiet on this blog lately. There have been multiple reasons for that. I’ve been extremely busy preparing for conferences this Fall including SpringOne/2GX and The Rich Web Experience. I’ve also stayed busy writing for DZone. I have my first DZone Refcard coming out soon, which is focused on Web Driver/Selenium 2. I’ve also been writing my regular articles for Agile Zone. Here’s a roundup:

• Modular Agile: Loosely coupled, highly cohesive ceremonies

• Think You’re “Doing Kanban?” Think Again.

• On Gaelyks and Golden Hammers

• Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts)

• Build Scripts? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Build Scripts!

• Automated Browser Testing: What’s in Your Toolkit?

• To Selenese or not to Test? That Seems to be the Question.

• Is the Apple JVM an “Extra Feature?”

In late September I completed an eight-part article series for Agile Zone entitled “The Seven Wastes of Software Development.” This series discussed Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s mapping of Shigeo Shingo’s “Seven Wastes of Lean Manufacturing” into the software development world. This has been a very popular series, having been viewed a total of 57,887 times at this writing. Here’s a set of links to the series:

• The Seven Wastes of Software Development - Introduction
• Waste #1 - Partially Done Work
• Waste #2 - Extra Features
• Waste #3 - Relearning
• Waste #4 - Handoffs
• Waste #5 - Delays
• Waste #6 - Task Switching
• Waste #7 - Defects

I recently completed a series of articles for Agile Zone entitled “The Agile Guerilla.” Those of you that have seen me on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour this year may recognize a talk by the same name. They are one and the same concept: my attempt to reach the masses with strategies for introducing change, specifically moving to agility, into organizations from the grassroots level.

Here’s a list of the complete set of articles for your convenience!

• The Agile Guerilla
• Show (Don’t Tell), Persuade (Don’t Preach)
• Going Guerilla: Where to Start
• The Guerilla’s Workflow
• Guerilla TDD

• Guerilla Continous Integration

• So What Are You Waiting For? GO BANANAS!

Just to prove that I am writing, just not here, I thought I’d post another collection of links to my latest Agile Zone articles:

• Yes You Kanban!

• The Guerilla’s Workflow

• Feedback is the Key!

• Going Guerilla: Where to Start

In the near future you can look forward to a few more episodes of “The Agile Guerilla” series, as well as a brand new series I’ll be starting entitled “The Seven Wastes of Software Development.”

Got any topics you want to hear more about? Post up in the comments and I’ll see about covering them at Agile Zone in the coming weeks!

My apologies to my colleagues down the street at AutoZone, but I just had to do that. :-)

I recently accepted the role of Agile Zone Leader at DZone.com. For the past few weeks I’ve been publishing a couple of articles a week on various agile development topics. I’m very happy to get the extra exposure and I hope that folks are getting some value out of my posts. On the downside, I have virtually zero time to write anything here, but on the upside I’m definitely writing more regularly. Nothing like positive pressure to deliver!

Here are some links to my recent articles:

• You Are Your Software’s Immune System!

• Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part One

• Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part Two

• Show (Don’t Tell), Persuade (Don’t Preach)

• But the ScrumMaster said I had to!

• The Agile Guerilla

• Use Stories to Deliver Business Value

Enjoy!