An Agile Gathering

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An event celebrating the 10-year-anniversary of the Agile Manifesto brought together 33 members of the agile community and sparked discussion about what agile has solved, what is unsolvable and what remains to be solved. Here, we talk to attendee Ryan Martens, CTO of Rally, about some of his and the group’s conclusions.

Editor’s Note: This is one in an ongoing series of interviews with thought leaders in the agile community.

On the 10-year anniversary of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a group of agile luminaries gathered in Snowbird, Utah, at the invitation of Alistair Cockburn to celebrate past achievements and outline future challenges. Ryan Martens was among the select group of 33 attendees at the Feb. 11–12 event. Martens is the founder and chief technology officer of Rally Software Development Corp., a Boulder, Colo.-based firm focused on agile application lifecycle management products.

Martens is an expert in helping organizations make the transition from traditional development processes to more agile techniques. Prior to his leadership at Rally, he directed the adoption of Internet technologies at Qwest Communications and founded Avitek, a custom software development firm eventually acquired by BEA Systems. Needless to say, Martens bleeds code.

That’s why ProjectsAtWork.com asked him to share details about the anniversary event. Read on …

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