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