Agile Groups

27 July 2009

Posted in Top Lists

Recently I noticed that I had missed an important announcement that had been posted to one or two groups on various social networks. Not being someone who likes to be out of the loop, I checked the major networks to find the most important groups about Agile, Scrum and XP.

This is what I found:

(Note: this is not a complete list of all agile groups. I only list a selection of groups per network here. If you think I forgot an important one, feel free to add them in the comments section.)

Yahoo

Group	Members
Extreme Programming	9319
The biggest of all agile groups. All the famous people are here: Ron Jeffries, Kent Beck, Scott Ambler. And since yesterday: me.
Scrum Development	6965
Almost as big as its sister group (XP), with some famous bloggers: Cory Foy, George Dinwiddie, etc.
Agile Testing	5583
Specifically about testing, and less active than the previous two.
Agile Project Management	3765
Specifically about project management, but not a very active group.
Agile Usability	1852
A bit more active than the previous one, and some interesting people here: Jeff Patton, Jared Spool, etc.
Agile Modeling	1709
Scott Amblers favorite topic. Not mine. I suck at modeling. Except when there's a camera around.
Lean Agile	1449
The marriage of lean and agile, moderated by Alan Shalloway, so it must be an interesting group.
Agile Management	1013
About management, and quite an active group, originally initiated by David J. Anderson.

Google

Group	Members
All About Agile	549
The only agile group at Google of reasonable size, though still not very big.

LinkedIn

Group	Members
Agile Alliance	7911
This is the real one: the Agile Alliance itself. Also by far the biggest agile group on LinkedIn.
Agile	4319
A generic group for both software development and project management. And quite an active group too.
Agile Project Management Group	3653
A networking group for project managers with a professional and agile mindset.
Agile CMMI	3187
About sharing knowledge between agile methods and CMMI. Hillel Glazer is leading this one, not surprisingly.
Agilistas	2302
A group for agile evangelizers, the biggest one being Chris Spagnuolo, who is leading the group.
Agile Project Managers	1924
Another networking group for agile project managers.
Agile Project Management	1250
And yet another group for project managers. They really like making new groups these guys…
Agile Thinkers	397
They say this group is for "agilitists", which sounds as if agile thinking is a bad disease for agilists.

Facebook

Group	Members
Scrum	806
Contrary to Yahoo, on Facebook the Scrum group is the biggest one.
Extreme Programming	349
Though the size of the XP group is not that bad either.

Ning

Group	Members
Agile Thinkers	177
This is the supporting network for those thinkers on LinkedIn suffering from agilitis.
XP and Agile	39
The "ultimate knowledge center on XP and Agile", which is a great achievement with only 39 people.

Note that there's one network seriously missing from this list: Windows Live Groups, which is because I have not been able to figure out how I'm supposed to search for group names on Windows Live. And besides, if there are any agile people using Windows Live Groups, they're probably 3-year olds, or brain dead.

(image by Hamed Saber)

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