Nearly 6 months ago I saw another Top 20 list of Agile people. I was troubled. As a result I started anti top 100 list: (from Looking for 100 Agile Voices we should hear more from)
In the past few years a number of Agile people I respect have published Top 100 or even Top 200 lists. While I, like many others appreciate the attention they’ve brought, the whole idea seems very anti-Agile. Agile promotes a democratic meritocracy. These lists do the opposite; they create “hero’s” – people whose ideas are more important than others. Instead of this I think we should be widely read in the Agile community, often reaching outside our immediate realm. To that end I’m asking for your help in creating a list of voices that we should hear more from. My goal is find 100; this limit being more from my lack of time and energy than from the lack of the number of people we could possibly find.
I naively assumed that once this went “live” I would be flooded with names. The first few came in rapidly, and they’ve trickled in on and off ever since. Well, the list has now reached 70 people; I’ve long since had my minimum viable product, but summer and family time intervened.
As a reminder – my simple rules for inclusion are:
- Nominees have to have a track record of doing something Agile for at least a year
- Not be in the Top 100 of any previous list
- The list isn’t sorted – no one is more important than anyone else
- I’m most interested in people who write about their experiences, either good or bad
- Please don’t suggest yourself
There is no order to this list.
| Name | Blog | Twitter ID |
| Ted Young | http://tedmyoung.tumblr.com/ | https://twitter.com/#!/jitterted |
| Chris Matts | ||
| Kent McDonald | ||
| Alexis Hu | http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/ | https://twitter.com/alhui |
| Marlena Compton | http://marlenacompton.com/ | |
| David Koontz | http://agilecomplexificationinverter.blogspot.com/ | https://twitter.com/#!/davidakoontz |
| Jeff Langr | https://twitter.com/jlangr | http://langrsoft.com/jeff/ |
| Tim Ottinger | http://agileotter.blogspot.com/ | https://twitter.com/#!/tottinge |
| Alan Dayley | http://www.dayleyagile.com/blog/ | https://twitter.com/dayleyagile |
| Marcian Floryan | http://marcin.floryan.pl/ | https://twitter.com/mfloryan |
| Pierre Neis | http://managingagile.blogspot.com/?view=classic | https://twitter.com/elPedroMajor |
| Web Craftsman | https://twitter.com/web_craftsman | |
| Lanette Creamer | http://testyredhead.com/ | https://twitter.com/lanettecream |
| David Hussman | http://devjam.com/devjams/ | https://twitter.com/davidhussman |
| Mike Burrows | http://positiveincline.com/ | https://twitter.com/asplake |
| Jeff Anderson | http://agileconsulting.blogspot.ca/ | https://twitter.com/thomasjeffrey |
| Rowan Bunning | ||
| Craig Brown | http://www.betterprojects.net/ | https://twitter.com/brown_note |
| Geoff Burns | http://geoffburns.tumblr.com/ | https://twitter.com/blxt/ |
| Ed Wong | http://projectslittlehelper.com/ | http://www.twitter.com/littlehelper |
| David Joyce | http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/dpjoyce/ |
| Renee Troughton | http://agileforest.com/ | https://twitter.com/AgileRenee |
| Craig Smith | http://craigsmith.id.au/ | https://twitter.com/smithcdau |
| Ilan Goldstein | http://www.scrumshortcuts.com/blog/ | https://twitter.com/ilagile |
| Martin Kearns | https://twitter.com/kearnsey | |
| Alex Viggio | https://twitter.com/aviggio/ | |
| Brad Swanson | http://www.agile42.com/en/blog/authors/bswanson/ | https://twitter.com/bradswanson/ |
| Catia Oliveira | http://scrumplicity.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/CatOliv |
| Cain Hopwood | http://www.cainhopwood.com/category/agilescrum/ | https://twitter.com/cainhopwood |
| Andrew Fuqua | http://www.andrewfuqua.com/ | http://twitter.com/andrewmfuqua |
| Benjamin Mitchell | http://blog.benjaminm.net/ | https://twitter.com/benjaminm |
| Clarke Ching | http://www.clarkeching.com/ | https://twitter.com/clarkeching |
| Troy Tuttle | http://blog.troytuttle.com/ | http://twitter.com/troytuttle |
| Stephanie Stewart | http://iamagile.com/ | https://twitter.com/PROJECT_steph |
| Sandy Mamoli | http://www.nomad8.com/page0/page0.php | https://twitter.com/smamol |
| Tony Ponton | http://disruptivethought.com/ | https://twitter.com/SvenNotnop |
| Jan Beaver | http://coachingagile.blogspot.ca/ | https://twitter.com/jan_beaver |
| Alan Atlas | https://scrumwiz.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/alanatlas/ |
| Tathagat Varma | http://managewell.net/ | https://twitter.com/tathagatvarma |
| Bryan Beecham | https://twitter.com/BillyGarnet | |
| Mike Bowler | https://twitter.com/mike_bowler | |
| Todd Little | http://www.toddlittleweb.com/wordpress/ | |
| Olav Massen | https://twitter.com/OlavMaassen | |
| Angela Harms | http://myagileeducation.com/ | https://twitter.com/angelaharms |
| Portia Tung | http://www.selfishprogramming.org/ | https://twitter.com/portiatung |
| Dan Mezick | http://newtechusa.net/blog/ | https://twitter.com/DanMezick |
| Bonnie Aumann | https://twitter.com/bonniea | |
| Mike Sutton | http://mhsutton.me/ | https://twitter.com/mhsutton |
| Jamie Dobson | http://www.financialagile.com/ | https://twitter.com/financialagile |
| Ainsley Nies | https://twitter.com/ainszo | |
| Martin Olesen | http://www.agilethoughts.dk/ | https://twitter.com/meolesen |
| Dan Wiebe | https://twitter.com/dnwiebe | |
| Adam Yuret | http://contextdrivenagility.com/ | https://twitter.com/AdamYuret |
| Kurt Haeusler | https://kurthaeusler.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/Kurt_Haeusler |
| Wouter Lagerweij | http://www.lagerweij.com/ | https://twitter.com/wouterla |
| Maurce le Rutte | http://www.scrummaster.nl/ | https://twitter.com/scrumnl |
| James Scrimshire | http://hurricanefour.com/agile/blog | https://twitter.com/Scrimmers |
| Nigel Baker | https://twitter.com/nigelebaker | |
| Geoff Watts | http://www.inspectandadapt.com/blog | https://twitter.com/geoffcwatts |
| Jeff Morgan | http://www.cheezyworld.com/ | https://twitter.com/chzy |
| Cathy Carleton | http://www.cathycarleton.com/ | |
| Agustin Villena | http://www.chileagil.cl/ | https://twitter.com/agustinvillena |
| Liza Wood | http://blog.socketsandlightbulbs.com/ | https://twitter.com/brightcdns |
| Dan Woodward | http://whotestedthis.com/ | https://twitter.com/woodybrood |
| Mind the Product (Group Blog) | http://mindtheproduct.com/ | https://twitter.com/MindTheProduct |
| Pascal Pink | http://hanzatsu.org/ | https://twitter.com/pascalpinck |
| Jeremy Lightsmith | http://onemanswalk.com/work/ | https://twitter.com/lightsmith |
I know that the table formatting is a bit of an issue – I will fix this when I have a chance.
Just for fun I created a simple button if you want to post in your sidebar:
I know several people don’t have blogs or Twitter ID’s listed, so I can’t find them; I’m hoping this post will encourage them to come out of the woodwork.
As I find new names and new blogs I will update the list periodically. Thanks to the many people who helped make this happen.
