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100 Top Agile Blogs in 2017

by Luís Gonçalves
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100 Top Agile Blogs in 2017

Many people research the best agile related content on the web. We compiled for you 100 Top Agile Blogs so that you can take a look what blogs rank the highest this year (2017).

The list was created based on alexa.com ranking. Alexa ranking is based on the amount of traffic recorded from the users that have the Alexa toolbar installed over a period of 3 months. Traffic is based on the parameters such as reach and page views.

We collected the data at the beginning of July 2017, so please do not be surprised if you find some changes in the ranking when you´re reading this today.

We hope you find this list beneficial to help you research agile related content.

 

Director of Digital Business Transformation

#1: Microsoft Blog

J.D. Meier is the author of the Microsoft Blog where he shares his knowledge and agile ideas about Digital Business Transformation, and Program Management. As a thought leader, he regularly shares his experience and learnings in books, blogs, trade publications, authoritative architecture guidance, articles, frameworks and methodologies.

Product updates and tips that help unleash your team’s potential

#2: Atlassian Blog

Fresh ideas, announcements, and inspiration for your team, delivered weekly.

Agile methodology news, tutorials & tools

#3: DZone Blog

DZone.com is one of the largest web communities and publishers of technical content for software developers. DZone is an online technology publishing company that produces valuable content for software architects and developers worldwide.

The latest thoughts and concepts from some of the great minds in Enterprise IT

#4: CA Technologies Blog

Highlight, the official CA Technologies blog brings the latest thoughts, musings and concepts shaping our world and the application economy. We hope to bring you the freshest and finest minds in Enterprise technology, give them a platform to express their opinions, views and insights.

Author, Speaker & Consultant

#5: Martin Fowler

I am an author, speaker… essentially a loud-mouthed pundit on the topic of software development. I work for ThoughtWorks, a software delivery company. My main interest is to understand how to design software systems, so as to maximize the productivity of development teams.

Membership and certification organization in the Agile community

#6: Scrum Alliance

Scrum Alliance® is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community. Our vision is to “Transform the World of Work” with a mission to guide and inspire individuals, leaders, and organizations with practices, principles, and values that create workplaces that are joyful, prosperous, and sustainable.

Improving the Profession of Software Delivery

#7: Scrum.org

Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.

Mike Cohn’s Blog

#8: Mountain Goat Software

Practical and actionable advice, tips and guidance for creating high-performing teams.

We Help Companies Develop and Deliver Enterprise Software. Faster.

#9: CollabNet Blog

CollabNet helps enterprises and government organizations develop and deliver high-quality software at speed. CollabNet offers innovative solutions, provides consulting and Agile training services.

Knowledge for people building the world´s most important systems

#10: Scaled Agile Blog

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) helps businesses address the significant challenges of developing and delivering enterprise-class software and systems in the shortest sustainable lead time.

Pioneer in Agile Project Management & DevOps

#11: Version One Blog

Fresh ideas and perspectives from VersionOne experts, our partners, and thought leaders in the global agile community.

Agile Community

#12: Agile Alliance Blog

Agile Alliance is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto. Read the latest and greatest articles from the Agile community — how-to's, best practices, and more!

Visual & flexible software to adopt and scale Agile

#13: Target Process Blog

Visually manage complex work. Reduce clutter and focus on the things that matter. Whether you’re scaling Agile through your entire company or adopting it for the first time, we’ve got your back. From Kanban and Scrum to SAFe and NEXUS, Targetprocess adapts to your management approach.

Making things better through lean thinking and practice

#14: Lean Enterprise Institute

The Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. (LEI) is a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization with an action plan.

Creating Digital Winners

#15: Xebia Blog

Xebia explores and creates new frontiers in IT. We provide innovative products and services and strive to stay one step ahead of our customers’ needs.

Expert Training & Consulting in Agile Product Management

#16: Roman Pichler Blog

Roman Pichler is a product management expert specialised in digital products. Roman is the author of three books, including Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age and Agile Product Management with Scrum, and he writes a popular blog for product professionals.

Targeting success

#17: SCRUMstudy Blog

SCRUMstudy is the global accreditation body for Scrum and Agile certifications. It has authored the SBOK™ Guide as a comprehensive guide to deliver successful projects using Scrum.

Thoughts on software development

#18: Mark Needham Blog

Mark is a Software Developer with experience delivering enterprise applications in C#, Java, Scala and Ruby. His blog is dedicated to thoughts on software development.

A blog about creating valuable software

#19: Agile Warrior Blog

Jonathan Rasmusson, the owner of Agile Warrior blog, developer, tester, analyst, and project manager with over 15 years of agile enterprise delivery experience, Jonathan is uniquely qualified to help those looking for better ways to serve their customers.

The world’s leading authority on Scrum

#20: Scrum Inc. Blog

Scrum Inc. is founded by Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum. Scrum Inc. has helped hundreds of companies fundamentally re-shape themselves to face a changing world, dramatically increase productivity, and drive profound growth.

Leading change in large organizations

#21: Leading Agile Resources

There are a lot of resources available out there, many of which are behind a paywall. We don’t think you should have to pay to get access to good information. Check out our most popular free agile resources and learn more about specific agile topics.

Agile & Lean Coach

#22: Crisp´s Blog

Recognized agile experts who are passionate about developing & improving products, methods, processes, teams & organizations

 

Activities and ideas for making agile retrospectives more engaging

#23: Fun Retrospectives

Paulo Caroli and Taina Caetano share their absolutely favourite ideas for engaging retrospectives. Both Paulo and Taina work at Thoughtworks.

The pioneering platform for agile work innovation software

#24: Planbox Blog

Planbox is the pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-powered Agile Work Innovation software solutions. Our mission is to help organizations thrive by transforming the culture of agile work, continuous innovation and creativity across the entire organization.

The Path To Business Agility

#25: SolutionsIQ Blog

We are the world’s largest provider of Agile transformation and innovation solutions for business and technology.

A toolkit for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers

#26: Gamestorming Blog

Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world.

Management Improvement Blog

#27: Curious Cat

The author of this blog is John Hunter. He focuses on Deming’s ideas, lean manufacturing (lean thinking), customer focus, systems thinking, leadership, Toyota Production System (TPS), innovation, six sigma.

Sharing is learning

#28: Marcusoft.net Blog

The author of the blog is Marcus Hammarberg. This blog is a summary of Marcus´learning about different subjects, tools and technologies in agile and lean.

Making Agile a Reality

#29: Agile For All Blog

Agile For All is an Agile and Scrum consulting firm dedicated to Making Agile a Reality® .

Computer Software Professional

#30: Alistair Cockburn Blog

Alistair is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for helping write the Agile Development Manifesto, describing Software development as a Cooperative Game, creating the oath of non-allegiance, and finally defining Use Cases.

Product management and strategy consultant

#31: Tyner Blain Blog

The author of this blog is Scott Sehlhorst, product management and strategy consultant. He wants his reader to learn more about areas of software development and refine their expertise with new ideas.

David J Anderson School of Management

#32: Lean Kanban University Blog

The David J Anderson School of Management is a Seattle-based training center and global consultancy focused on training managers to make better decisions.

Retros made simple

#33: Retrium Blog

Retrium makes distributed retrospectives easy and effective. It provides a set of super-simple interfaces to a variety of facilitation techniques, including Mad Sad Glad, Start Stop Continue, and 4Ls. Dot voting, grouping, prioritized discussion, and private brainstorming included!

Shaping and Evangelizing DevOps since 2008

#34: Agile Web Development & Operations

Blog dedicated to DevOps, Kanban and Agile Topics. The authors of this blog are Dan Ackerson and Matthias Marschall who help seasoned engineers to step up delivery velocity.

Making sense of complexity in order to act

#35: Cognitive Edge Blog

Cognitive Edge was founded in 2005 with the objective of building methods, tools and capability to utilise insights from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems.

online agile courses scrum training agile education scrum master training
Organisational Transformation Coach

#36: Luis Goncalves Blog

Luis is the co-author of Getting Value Out Of Agile Retrospectives book. His mission is to help ScrumMasters win at work and succeed with their organisations. He writes on ScrumMaster development, coaching, organisational change, and organisational transformation. On occasion, he writes about stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into one of these categories.

Agile Coaching Company

#37: Agile42 Blog

agile42 has a proven approach to successful agile implementations. We support you with a full range of coaching services and specialized trainings.

The Creative Networker - Pioneering management for creative organizations

#38: Jurgen Appelo´s Blog

The author of this blog is Jurgen Appelo. Jurgen is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers.

Free online resource and Agile news site

#39: Agile Scout Blog

The author of the blog is Peter Saddington, Organizational Scientist and Certified Scrum Trainer. Agile Scout is a free online resource and Agile news site designed to help and inform anyone interested in Agile software development methods and Agile tools.

Agile software development Blog

#40: Scrum Expert

Scrum Expert is a web site dedicated to present articles, blog posts, book reviews, tools, videos, news and other resources about Agile software development and project management with the Scrum approach. We also discuss related approaches like Lean, Kanban or XP (eXtreme Programming).

Veteran Product Manager, Agile, Lean, UX and Product Design Evangelist

#41: Jeff Patton & Associates Blog

Jeff Patton is the glue that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. He has authored numerous articles, essays and, most recently, a book, “User Story Mapping.”

Mishkin Berteig´s Blog

#42: Agile Advice

Agile Advice is a multi-author blog headed up by Mishkin Berteig. Agile Advice covers Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, OpenAgile, as well as other topics related to teams and management.

The Art of Agile

#43: James Shore Blog

James Shore is a thought leader in the Agile software development community. James was an early adopter of Agile development and he continues to lead, teach, write and consult on Agile development processes.

Consultant, Author and Speaker

#44: Johanna Rothman Blog

Author of Hiring Geeks That Fit, Manage Your Project Portfolio, Manage It! People know her as the “Pragmatic Manager.” She provides frank advice—often with a little humor.

Fuel for invention and learning

#45: Tasty Cupcakes

TastyCupcakes is a community-run site, founded by Michael McCullough and Don McGreal. The games, techniques, and approaches presented are here for you to use and explore.