Agile RoundUp: This Week In Agile July 12

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This Week On Agile Connection

Kenneth Grant's article, "Agile Is Cheaper, right?", in which he looks at whether or not being agile is really cheap for an organization, has been our top story of the week. Here's what some of you had to say:

Is agile cheaper? It depends, but it certainly helps you spend the money you do have more wisely.http://t.co/cR681rxDTn #agile @agilejournal

— Acoyvis (@Acoyvis) July 1, 2013

Planning stress: when requirements are specified early in the lifecycle, 80 percent of the functionality is unwanted http://t.co/1dc8ygttXq

— Tim Ottinger (@tottinge) July 9, 2013

Around The Web

Agile Insights: 

"Iterate more" means "do smaller things, more often.' -- this is hard for most people some of the time. I need occasional reminders too.

— Tim Ottinger (@tottinge) July 12, 2013

My 4 Rs to make a #scrum team work: rythym, respect, responsibility and recognition #agile

— Feike Visser (@heervisscher) July 12, 2013

Product Backlogs, And Agile Ways of Working

Need help prioritizing your product backlog? Check out these guidelines to help agile product backlog correctly and consistently from Cognizant.

VersionOne breaks down the "Agile Methods of Work" in an effort to move away from talking about software development as an Engineering discipline but rather a craft. And this-

 Happy Friday!