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There are hundreds of great Agile blogs and software development blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which Agile blogs everyone else is reading? Ever wonder which ones are worth reading?
I do. I burn about 1400+ RSS feeds of Agile and software development blogs (growing weekly) with people emailing me monthly for my RSS XML file.
Here are the best 200 Agile blogs out there for 2011. Some focus exclusively on Agile and coaching, while others are more on leadership, news, consulting, Product Ownership, ScrumMastering, and specific Agile methods. Regardless of how you label them, these are the world’s most popular Agile blogs written by many of today’s most influential Agile leaders, practitioners, coaches, consultants, and hippies.
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For a legend and to understand how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the list.
TOP 200 AGILE BLOGS
As of June 3, 2011 – Updated on June 8 with new data and changes.
[Click here for the Top 200 Agile Blogs RSS links!]
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| 1 |
Martin Fowler |
martinfowler |
76431 |
217561 |
6 |
14824 |
30221 |
33641 |
| 2 |
Succeeding with Agile |
mikewcohn |
171436 |
508315 |
6 |
10297 |
5337 |
5316 |
| 3 |
NOOP.NL |
jurgenappelo |
323390 |
341194 |
5 |
2419 |
17800 |
4354 |
| 4 |
Alistair Cockburn |
TotherAlistair |
624870 |
1895124 |
6 |
1026 |
10788 |
3112 |
| 5 |
Elegant Code |
ElegantCode |
155878 |
351470 |
5 |
3370 |
30892 |
1601 |
| 6 |
Leading Agile |
mcottmeyer |
2126245 |
3227855 |
4 |
12745 |
12749 |
5888 |
| 7 |
Agile Zone |
Dzone |
2571 |
25268 |
4 |
612 |
430529 |
9677 |
| 8 |
xProgramming.com |
RonJeffries |
836951 |
1739463 |
6 |
618 |
4394 |
6062 |
| 9 |
Henrik Kniberg’s Blog |
henrikkniberg |
477827 |
3112613 |
4 |
1952 |
4453 |
2664 |
| 10 |
Scrum Alliance |
ScrumAlliance |
87913 |
443135 |
6 |
790 |
2728 |
5829 |
| 11 |
Leading Answers |
Make a Twitter |
1415614 |
3227855 |
4 |
8703 |
3625 |
5888 |
| 12 |
AgileBlog: RallyDev.com |
agileblog |
23415 |
114195 |
5 |
1380 |
19986 |
1208 |
| 13 |
Implementing Scrum |
mvizdos |
169657 |
1482686 |
4 |
1964 |
6415 |
1375 |
| 14 |
Tyner Blain |
sehlhorst |
899647 |
873763 |
5 |
2653 |
16757 |
1514 |
| 15 |
The Art of Agile |
jamesshore |
769479 |
1835795 |
5 |
7502 |
2401 |
2285 |
| 16 |
esther derby Insights you can Use |
estherderby |
2409176 |
2843483 |
5 |
737 |
4699 |
3670 |
| 17 |
Eric D. Brown’s Technology and Strategy |
EricDBrown |
581106 |
449020 |
4 |
1115 |
14397 |
2175 |
| 18 |
Managing Product Development |
johannarothman |
1102157 |
3949200 |
4 |
1740 |
2852 |
2048 |
| 19 |
The Hacker Chick Blog |
HackerChick |
2511242 |
4876000 |
4 |
588 |
3338 |
3409 |
| 20 |
Architecture & Design |
dr_dobbs |
33563 |
46041 |
4 |
368 |
46734 |
1151 |
| 21 |
shmula: business and technology |
shmula |
374593 |
314419 |
5 |
395 |
20811 |
877 |
| 22 |
Agile Advice – Agile Methods |
mberteig |
1495966 |
2570218 |
5 |
9112 |
12117 |
386 |
| 23 |
All About Agile |
kelly_waters |
437993 |
2720980 |
3 |
2353 |
3264 |
1530 |
| 24 |
Bridging The Gap |
LLBrandenburg |
619526 |
1056965 |
4 |
597 |
4444 |
1357 |
| 25 |
Version One |
versionone |
7695 |
64740 |
6 |
0 |
99288 |
5112 |
| 26 |
Michael Lee Stallard: Insights on Leadership |
michaelstallard |
2577178 |
3349868 |
4 |
249 |
13698 |
1624 |
| 27 |
Target Process Blog |
targetprocess |
205418 |
737003 |
5 |
464 |
4618 |
706 |
| 28 |
Mark Needham |
markhneedham |
620352 |
1279149 |
4 |
441 |
2281 |
2076 |
| 29 |
Holistic Product Design & Development |
jeffpatton |
695367 |
683416 |
4 |
1348 |
1185 |
2814 |
| 30 |
Agile Buddy Blog |
Agilebuddy |
870518 |
0 |
4 |
373 |
5547 |
2146 |
| 31 |
The Experience is the Product |
cindyalvarez |
439840 |
714922 |
4 |
151 |
2241 |
2357 |
| 32 |
Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers |
keaggy |
462533 |
1558813 |
5 |
539 |
866 |
1137 |
| 33 |
Evolving Web: Jim Benson |
ourfounder |
2983849 |
0 |
4 |
892 |
11647 |
2608 |
| 34 |
Tom Hume |
twhume |
1606849 |
0 |
5 |
261 |
17818 |
1104 |
| 35 |
The Critical Path |
derekhuether |
1322226 |
546238 |
4 |
152 |
4790 |
1622 |
| 36 |
The Agile Executive |
agile_exec |
1852449 |
4230287 |
5 |
6 |
5751 |
1067 |
| 37 |
Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management |
pawelbrodzinski |
969787 |
1408022 |
3 |
1847 |
5039 |
938 |
| 38 |
Agile Scout |
agilescout |
555711 |
1127700 |
4 |
823 |
3094 |
10367 |
| 39 |
Lean Enterprise Institute |
LeanDotOrg |
262020 |
197221 |
6 |
233 |
17484 |
325 |
| 40 |
Project Shrink: Making Complex People Stuff Less Complex. |
projectshrink |
841970 |
1242208 |
1 |
2063 |
4839 |
2893 |
| 41 |
Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog |
curiouscat_com |
115543 |
467047 |
4 |
45 |
28720 |
454 |
| 42 |
Test Obsessed |
testobsessed |
2356104 |
0 |
5 |
21 |
5249 |
3769 |
| 43 |
Agile Pain Relief Consulting |
mlevison |
2123811 |
1298753 |
4 |
1309 |
1244 |
1186 |
| 44 |
Infoworld |
infoworld |
8484 |
26458 |
4 |
106 |
305 |
7811 |
| 45 |
Agile Web Development and Operations |
mmarschall |
315757 |
981869 |
3 |
545 |
2704 |
1005 |
| 46 |
bor!sgloger |
borisgloger |
891945 |
4489272 |
5 |
1 |
2442 |
1039 |
| 47 |
TechRepublic |
TechRepublic |
1321 |
4106 |
0 |
589 |
1750 |
19497 |
| 48 |
David J. Anderson and Associates |
agilemanager |
1164746 |
4878458 |
4 |
181 |
60 |
3320 |
| 49 |
Better Projects: Project Leadership |
brown_note |
1105244 |
511669 |
4 |
705 |
7629 |
294 |
| 50 |
About Agility: Agile insights from the trenches |
OutSystems |
135150 |
436783 |
5 |
125 |
960 |
645 |
| 51 |
Artem Marchenko |
ArtemMarchenko |
218155 |
504074 |
4 |
2330 |
4871 |
12 |
| 52 |
Thought Clusters |
krishami |
1652040 |
1590601 |
4 |
141 |
2752 |
551 |
| 53 |
Net Objectives |
alshalloway |
818419 |
322359 |
3 |
388 |
1874 |
1522 |
| 54 |
Developsense Blog |
michaelbolton |
1208024 |
2700814 |
3 |
4 |
2609 |
3037 |
| 55 |
Creative Chaos |
mheusser |
4633373 |
0 |
5 |
71 |
7567 |
1491 |
| 56 |
Jbrains.ca |
jbrains |
2512799 |
0 |
4 |
88 |
2059 |
2494 |
| 57 |
Lean Software Engineering: Essays on the Continuous Delivery |
berniethompson |
1338730 |
954021 |
4 |
1798 |
8888 |
24 |
| 58 |
Herding Cats |
galleman |
891505 |
0 |
4 |
1209 |
11847 |
148 |
| 59 |
Xebia Blog |
Xebia |
265134 |
1443078 |
0 |
1326 |
5084 |
479 |
| 60 |
>kloctalk |
klocwork |
419167 |
608972 |
4 |
36 |
3473 |
340 |
| 61 |
Availagility – Karl Scotland |
kjscotland |
3648090 |
713692 |
4 |
239 |
1612 |
1207 |
| 62 |
What To Fix: Fix the system. |
danielbmarkham |
564428 |
216443 |
4 |
335 |
5057 |
160 |
| 63 |
Scott Bellware: Lean Software Production |
ampgt |
3772534 |
0 |
5 |
1202 |
1442 |
757 |
| 64 |
Ros Rosenhead |
ronrosenhead |
2805247 |
0 |
4 |
247 |
8087 |
542 |
| 65 |
J.D. Meier’s Blog: Software Engineering |
jdmeier |
26 |
5485 |
5 |
589 |
1162 |
59 |
| 66 |
Michael Feathers |
mfeathers |
2370304 |
0 |
0 |
2082 |
1590 |
7327 |
| 67 |
Marios Alexandrou – Software Methods |
malexandrou |
159343 |
178676 |
5 |
97 |
816 |
334 |
| 68 |
James Grenning’s Blog |
jwgrenning |
3309566 |
0 |
4 |
425 |
1771 |
937 |
| 69 |
Rachel Davies – Agile Coaching |
rachelcdavies |
4788264 |
0 |
4 |
416 |
1009 |
2141 |
| 70 |
Vertabase Blog |
mpmobile |
129819 |
370049 |
5 |
44 |
952 |
305 |
| 71 |
#2782 – Patterns of .Net Developer |
AdeMiller |
1755517 |
2171108 |
4 |
91 |
973 |
384 |
| 72 |
Doug Shimp Blog |
scrum_coach |
3200011 |
1899434 |
3 |
53 |
595 |
5544 |
| 73 |
Chris McMahon’s Blog: Software testing, scripting, agile development |
chris_mcmahon |
3945558 |
0 |
4 |
425 |
2188 |
870 |
| 74 |
Uncle Bob’s Blog: Writings on Clean Code, Design, and all things software. |
unclebobmartin |
2114595 |
1921 |
0 |
1508 |
914 |
16541 |
| 75 |
Visual Management Blog |
xquesada |
2163753 |
1426088 |
4 |
2 |
4751 |
420 |
| 76 |
Dev Agile Blog |
devagile |
4470475 |
2559033 |
4 |
192 |
15229 |
52 |
| 77 |
Coaching Agile Teams – Lyssa Adkins |
lyssaadkins |
4441015 |
0 |
4 |
202 |
1071 |
1299 |
| 78 |
Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin |
lisacrispin |
4448581 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
2972 |
2642 |
| 79 |
Agile Anarchy |
tobiasmayer |
2041117 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
4989 |
1774 |
| 80 |
Software Quality Connection |
Sqconnection |
216285 |
169461 |
0 |
255 |
29648 |
259 |
| 81 |
Do It Yourself Agile |
damonpoole |
5344952 |
0 |
4 |
563 |
2582 |
487 |
| 82 |
Making Good Software |
Make a Twitter |
617301 |
1085821 |
4 |
614 |
752 |
0 |
| 83 |
Limited WIP Society: The Home of Kanban |
grouply |
1769035 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
7168 |
631 |
| 84 |
LitheSpeed’s LitheBlog |
lithespeed |
7015210 |
2029746 |
4 |
711 |
3589 |
89 |
| 85 |
John Hines’ Code Blog: A blog on Agile |
Make a Twitter |
7933 |
32853 |
4 |
6 |
5891 |
0 |
| 86 |
Scrumology |
davidjbland |
2326182 |
2463070 |
3 |
58 |
643 |
713 |
| 87 |
Derek Neighbors |
dneighbors |
5343979 |
0 |
3 |
41 |
1740 |
3242 |
| 88 |
George Dinwiddie’s blog: Effective software development |
gdinwiddie |
3571237 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
4755 |
1164 |
| 89 |
Alain’s Blog: Agile, Lean, Patterns |
allankellynet |
6044114 |
0 |
4 |
208 |
4528 |
336 |
| 90 |
Collaboration and Transparency Blog |
adsdevshop |
671916 |
2152020 |
5 |
0 |
2751 |
3 |
| 91 |
Jason Yip |
jchyip |
4470967 |
0 |
0 |
286 |
5895 |
1401 |
| 92 |
Scrumworks |
scrumworks |
587237 |
594670 |
4 |
0 |
2515 |
220 |
| 93 |
Tea-Driven Development: Matt Wynne |
mattwynne |
2526728 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
2348 |
719 |
| 94 |
Software Development Musings |
methodsandtools |
2715098 |
3902852 |
5 |
1 |
1167 |
233 |
| 95 |
CollabNet: Scrum and Agile Blog |
CollabNet |
39405 |
254877 |
0 |
416 |
214 |
918 |
| 96 |
Voximate Blog |
voximate |
2991500 |
2495130 |
0 |
90 |
627 |
2048 |
| 97 |
Agile For All |
AgileForAll |
3303083 |
0 |
3 |
167 |
587 |
1729 |
| 98 |
Agilitix |
MichaelSahota |
2440996 |
2517819 |
3 |
58 |
868 |
401 |
| 99 |
Software Development Today |
duarte_vasco |
2790165 |
0 |
4 |
40 |
538 |
815 |
| 100 |
enthiosys |
Enthiosys |
1288825 |
797434 |
5 |
5 |
1282 |
87 |
| 101 |
Agile 42 |
agile42 |
356955 |
5088215 |
3 |
2 |
506 |
306 |
| 102 |
Yves Hanoulle Blog |
yvesHanoulle |
4061060 |
0 |
3 |
38 |
1186 |
1595 |
| 103 |
Cory Foy: It’s all about agility |
cory_foy |
1789751 |
3899903 |
4 |
18 |
576 |
92 |
| 104 |
Scrum Breakfast |
peterstev
|
3136238 |
0 |
4 |
392 |
4204 |
0 |
| 105 |
The Agilista PM |
AgilistaPM |
2380170 |
2912522 |
2 |
0 |
468 |
5306 |
| 106 |
Catenary |
yorchopolis |
2830568 |
3981614 |
4 |
0 |
2456 |
190 |
| 107 |
Agile UX |
jcQualitystreet |
2051564 |
0 |
3 |
72 |
924 |
655 |
| 108 |
Wide Teams |
wideteams |
3884823 |
5077749 |
3 |
59 |
899 |
331 |
| 109 |
Situated Geekery: Towards a Way of Excellence |
GeePawHill |
11018688 |
0 |
3 |
99 |
1627 |
1355 |
| 110 |
Personal Kanban | visualize. learn. improve. |
personalkanban |
1321895 |
4220890 |
4 |
0 |
522 |
268 |
| 111 |
Agile Game Development |
ClintonKeith |
2187037 |
2002465 |
2 |
181 |
394 |
569 |
| 112 |
Abakas |
Make a Twitter |
3006416 |
0 |
4 |
248 |
2466 |
0 |
| 113 |
Pichler Consulting |
romanpichler |
979708 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
413 |
589 |
| 114 |
Practical Agility: Agile Software Development |
daverooneyca |
11526938 |
0 |
3 |
173 |
1172 |
1083 |
| 115 |
Artima Weblogs: A Weblog by Sean Landis |
Make a Twitter |
43708 |
119054 |
5 |
7 |
177 |
0 |
| 116 |
David Alfaro: Scrum Costa Rica |
agilenature |
5155559 |
0 |
3 |
40 |
105 |
3943 |
| 117 |
Agile CMMI |
hi11e1 |
4999220 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
3774 |
476 |
| 118 |
TinyPM Blog |
tinypm |
723429 |
1379659 |
3 |
19 |
167 |
298 |
| 119 |
Agile & Business |
jhlittle |
2822652 |
0 |
2 |
384 |
2926 |
185 |
| 120 |
Systems Thinking, Lean and Kanban |
dpjoyce |
2639359 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
1337 |
711 |
| 121 |
Analytical-Mind |
martin_proulx |
4139256 |
3696850 |
3 |
0 |
1657 |
367 |
| 122 |
The Jelecos Blog |
Jelecos |
905891 |
942125 |
5 |
4 |
42 |
155 |
| 123 |
VersionOne |
versionone |
163666 |
315430 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
1548 |
| 124 |
Andy’s Mind |
andybrandt |
10405947 |
0 |
4 |
25 |
1044 |
331 |
| 125 |
Sterling Barton:Enabling Value-Driven Companies |
csterwa |
2751564 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1270 |
784 |
| 126 |
Agile 101 |
TaraLeeWhitaker |
1092077 |
1536418 |
3 |
1 |
703 |
162 |
| 127 |
Technical Debt: Jon Kern |
JonKernPA |
6599160 |
0 |
3 |
52 |
851 |
659 |
| 128 |
Scaling Software Agility |
Make a Twitter |
3326177 |
0 |
4 |
15 |
2417 |
0 |
| 129 |
Ken Schwaber’s Blog: Telling It Like It Is |
kschwaber |
2434793 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
419 |
3054 |
| 130 |
BradEgeland.com |
begeland |
5653923 |
0 |
4 |
30 |
90 |
541 |
| 131 |
Winging It |
timwingfield |
8529012 |
0 |
3 |
10 |
794 |
752 |
| 132 |
Accidental Simplicity |
sberczuk |
8087016 |
0 |
4 |
31 |
982 |
122 |
| 133 |
VisibleThread |
VisibleThread |
3815437 |
4486313 |
4 |
1 |
284 |
13 |
| 134 |
Planbox Blog |
PlanboxInc |
578957 |
5071941 |
0 |
4 |
20 |
349 |
| 135 |
Schauderhaft |
jensschauder |
2215147 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
1383 |
214 |
| 136 |
Morton Consulting |
MortonNews |
3441358 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
268 |
990 |
| 137 |
The Agile Warrior: A blog about creating valuable software |
jrasmusson |
1329917 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
575 |
302 |
| 138 |
Moving Beyond Management |
jessefewell |
4464133 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
764 |
397 |
| 139 |
Richard Lawrence |
rslawrence |
5961877 |
0 |
3 |
143 |
336 |
344 |
| 140 |
Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir) |
Salhir |
10502521 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
852 |
1151 |
| 141 |
Kelly’s Contemplation |
rkelly976 |
3929855 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2433 |
912 |
| 142 |
Software Engineering Blog |
Make a Twitter |
1953843 |
0 |
2 |
50 |
1711 |
0 |
| 143 |
Marcus Hammarberg inside |
marcusoftnet |
4039761 |
0 |
3 |
72 |
289 |
273 |
| 144 |
patrickwilsonwelsh.com |
patrickwelsh |
10694188 |
0 |
0 |
56 |
932 |
816 |
| 145 |
Markus Gärtner |
mgaertne |
3192911 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1336 |
861 |
| 146 |
Softheme Blog |
softheme |
1365937 |
2389929 |
1 |
2 |
963 |
59 |
| 147 |
Mendelt’s blog |
ArtemMarchenko |
220003 |
504074 |
3 |
3 |
102 |
12 |
| 148 |
Mary Poppendieck Blog |
mpoppendieck |
6177673 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
90 |
1951 |
| 149 |
Big Visible: Inspiring Agility |
bigvisible |
3265979 |
5090105 |
0 |
0 |
1035 |
110 |
| 150 |
Less code, more software |
JonJagger |
18689507 |
0 |
3 |
12 |
588 |
371 |
| 151 |
Musings About Software Development |
caroldekkers |
11789200 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
629 |
526 |
| 152 |
Fragile Blog |
neilisfragile |
892135 |
0 |
2 |
46 |
108 |
55 |
| 153 |
Jason Little: Helping Organizations Get Better |
jasonlittle |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1315 |
526 |
| 154 |
Donald E. Gray: Integrating People, Projects, Processes |
donaldegray |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
472 |
393 |
| 155 |
Agile Blog |
Make a Twitter |
5020239 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
1435 |
0 |
| 156 |
Project Steps |
sfseay |
2139640 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
486 |
31 |
| 157 |
Software Results |
dmoran1 |
589406 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
174 |
84 |
| 158 |
UX Success: Julie Booth’s Blog on User Experience and Business Success |
uxsuccess |
14437106 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
128 |
770 |
| 159 |
Propero Solutions |
bradswanson |
19746060 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
212 |
351 |
| 160 |
The Agile CEO |
SolutionsIQ |
18892023 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
69 |
1990 |
| 161 |
Conscires |
consciresagile |
3845607 |
3421893 |
2 |
0 |
468 |
107 |
| 162 |
One More Agile Blog: Richard K Cheng’s blog |
RichardKCheng |
27916010 |
0 |
3 |
25 |
884 |
157 |
| 163 |
Brains Link |
brainslink |
5494867 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
217 |
680 |
| 164 |
Scrum Software Tool | ScrumEdge Online |
ScrumEdge |
3226130 |
0 |
2 |
22 |
228 |
142 |
| 165 |
Scrum Agile Project Management Expert |
scrumexpert |
10863402 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
8022 |
25 |
| 166 |
Agile Matters and Agile CIO |
Make a Twitter |
2678532 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
161 |
0 |
| 167 |
quasutra blog: For Quality And Management People |
quasutra |
4686332 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
87 |
592 |
| 168 |
Sean McHugh – SCRUM Blog |
Sean_McQ |
3783717 |
0 |
2 |
25 |
624 |
13 |
| 169 |
dcpatton: How can I help you? |
dcpatton |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
541 |
608 |
| 170 |
My Agile Education |
angelaharms |
11452573 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
460 |
1011 |
| 171 |
PM Technix: Project Management Tips and Technique |
pmtechnix |
1945256 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
377 |
10 |
| 172 |
Shojiki Solutions Blog |
masaKmaeda |
28010767 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
170 |
241 |
| 173 |
Benjamin Mitchell’s Blog |
benjaminm |
14060461 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
71 |
1171 |
| 174 |
Thinking Business |
JosephHurtado |
22545831 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
25 |
1937 |
| 175 |
Agile Observations from the Trenches |
AgileAdvisor |
8939476 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
279 |
429 |
| 176 |
Bart’s Blog |
cbartling |
4008053 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
250 |
105 |
| 177 |
not out of reach |
topsurf |
24319489 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
1676 |
| 178 |
Plamen’s Blog |
plamenb |
0 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
682 |
161 |
| 179 |
Ainstainer Group Blog |
Ainstainer |
6162899 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
169 |
174 |
| 180 |
Lasse Koskela |
lassekoskela |
20317690 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
112 |
925 |
| 181 |
Michael Bosch: Integrating web, mobile and enterprise software development with a pragmatic approach |
MichaelBosch |
6036037 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
37 |
768 |
| 182 |
Agile Tribe |
theagiletribe |
19354110 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
158 |
192 |
| 183 |
Agile Business:Steve Garnett |
Make a Twitter |
0 |
0 |
2 |
50 |
505 |
0 |
| 184 |
Scrum FTW |
Make a Twitter |
9686224 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
479 |
0 |
| 185 |
Becoming An Agile Family |
maritzavdh |
23276414 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
133 |
763 |
| 186 |
Lean Agile Machine |
JR0cket |
15011399 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
44 |
588 |
| 187 |
Life & Product Mgmt. Agile Style. Scrum and Parenthood – the only places I know where Sticky is good. |
NicoleReineke |
17767310 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
86 |
554 |
| 188 |
Cuan Mulligan: Enterprise and Personal Coaching |
Cuan |
6584067 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
53 |
564 |
| 189 |
Nick Oostvogels’s Weblog: Sharing Agile Software Development Experiences |
NickOostvogels |
14795774 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
135 |
315 |
| 190 |
c2refleXions – Chris Chan’s Blog |
chanc |
14022174 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
74 |
580 |
| 191 |
Agile Dimensions |
AgileBill4d |
28922502 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
123 |
404 |
| 192 |
TastyCupcakes.org |
tastycupcakes |
6722963 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
348 |
191 |
| 193 |
Agile Helpline |
agilehelpline |
4940277 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
7 |
253 |
| 194 |
Coaching teams to do better scrum |
karen_greaves |
14365563 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
100 |
182 |
| 195 |
Scott Dunn: Software Development and Human Capital |
sdunnrocket9 |
26937567 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
219 |
257 |
| 196 |
John Haro’s Blog |
johnharo |
15227082 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
109 |
216 |
| 197 |
Andrewfuqua.com: Lean and agile training and coaching. |
andrewmfuqua |
0 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
172 |
104 |
| 198 |
Capability Development |
Make a Twitter |
10962343 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
81 |
0 |
| 199 |
Learning Practice: Transcripts on Agile, SCRUM, Self Learnings, e-Learning and Management Practices |
followVasan |
14989834 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
24 |
175 |
| 200 |
Agile Mindstorm |
ruckiand |
24571465 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
60 |
281 |
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TOP AGILE BLOGS LEGEND
- Total Composite Rank

The calculated rank of the Agile blog sorted in ascending order.
- Blog Name and URL

The <Title> name and URL.
- Twitter Handle and URL


The Twitter.com name and corresponding URL. Often the Twitter name is often the same as the Author’s name (*Author’s Name not shown in interest of space). If I could not find a Twitter Name for the corresponding blog, then you’ll find “MakeATwitter” as a placeholder.
- Alexa Rank

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day.
- Compete Visitors

The number of unique visitors that visited the website in June 2011 according to Compete.
- Google PageRank

PageRank reflects Google’s view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that Google believes are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
- Google Reader Subscribers

The number of Google Reader users that subscribe to each blog. Note: this is not total RSS subscribers but rather how many Google Reader users subscribe to each blog.
- Yahoo Inlinks

The number of links going to a blog’s entire site but excluding all self-linking links.
- Twitter Follower Count

The number followers on Twitter.com
- Klout Score

The Klout score is the measurement of ones overall online influence. Klout uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score (*Klout Score not shown in interest of space).
- Power 150

The Power 150 was developed by marketing executive and blogger, Todd Andrlik for the top marketing blogs in the world. It uses a basic multimetric algorithm to obtain a final ranking based on the sum of eight sources, seven of which come from Alexa, Yahoo, PostRank and Collective Intellect. The last is Todd’s own personal subjective measure. For the purposes of this list I utilized some of the partial concepts of Todd’s Power 150 (*Power 150 algorithm not shown).
HOW THE LIST IS COMPUTED
- 864 blogs were reviewed in a preliminary screening to determine if their statistics are competitive enough to be ranked.
- 383 blogs were selected to be ranked.
- Data was collected for each blog from all 7 measured criteria (Alexa Rank, Compete Visitors, Google PageRank, Google Reader Subscribers, Yahoo Inlinks, Twitter Follower Count, Klout Score).
- For each of the 7 measured criteria, each blog is ranked in comparison to all other blogs being evaluated.
- A composite rank for each blog is determined by averaging each blogs ranking from the 7 measured criteria + partial Power 150 Weighting + social media influence mapping.
- The top 200 blogs are published.
ON ALEXA AND COMPETE
Do a quick Google search for “Alexa is wrong” or “Compete score unreliable” or any similar string. Yes, I am very aware of the inaccuracies of these two sites and have personally researched them. Some would say that the statistics from these sites are worthless, and I anticipate many emails about these two scores. My take on utilizing these scores are as follows:
- If the scores are consistently inaccurate, then the hope is that they are inaccurate across the board for all sites.
- Regardless of whether the scores are unreliable or not, individual users cannot “game” the system.
- To create an objective weighting of scores for this list, commonly understood “standards” needed to be used (though these scores are weighted less than the Google PR rank, for example).
- I personally do not give any credence to Alexa and Compete scores as definitive for business decisions. My suggestion to all would be to use Alexa and Compete in tandem with other systems to balance out any statistics for measuring interweb value.
- **READ THIS FUN ARTICLE ON ALEXA AND COMPETE**
- **READ THIS ARTICLE on “Testing the Accuracy of Visitory Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick and Quantcast.”**
ON KLOUT AND SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE
The rise of social media can easily be seen as the current or next advertising and marketing medium to reach the masses. I am a firm believer that as social media influence tools are built out, it will be easier to see how to utilize social media as a “selling tool.” The following are the reasons why I added social media weights:
- Social media is growing. It’s foolish for any business or personal brand not to be engaged in it.
- “Reach” is a term that indicates true influence or position. Email campaigns and RSS (as some consider RSS a dying medium), is not enough. To expose your message to the world, your reach has to be as long as it can.
- Social media tools are helping us understand the importance of crowd sourcing, user generated content, search engine optimization (SEO), and search engine marketing (SEM). If tooling is any indication of technology trends, then you absolutely have to keep your eye on their value.
- I personally believe in the power of social media. I consult with many companies on how to further their engagement and have seen the pragmatic value and power of it. Many people often ask me what my favorite tools are, see below:
BEST SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
- Twitter Counter – Updates are slow, but still useful
- TweetStats – Realtime feedback
- PostRank – King. Period.
- Topsy – Realtime Twitter search
- TwitterGrader – Up and coming analytics, similar to Klout
- Advanced Twitter search – Probably the most underused system out there, but could bring the most value in due time
- Klout – First to market and growing
- Hashtracking – Track trending topics
- SocialToo – Track your social media presence
- Hootsuite – My personal favorite – Tweet management and more.
- ViralHeat – Paid – but very solid
- Sysomos – Paid – Business intelligence for your online engagement
- TwentyFeet – Freemium – Tried it out. Not too shabby
- Argyle – Paid – Another social media management tool.
- SEOMoz – Paid, but probably the best out there for SEO/SEM
Thanks for this comprehensive list!
BTW: When I saw the list stop at 199, I looked back at the top to see if it started at 0. Oops.
BTW, you’re in my RSS feeder, you focus a lot on the coding side… so it wasn’t included in the filtered version!
Peter, thank you for doing this! I’m sure it was a lot of work. It will likely be criticized by many for one reason or another but it’s a fantastic list by any measure!
Yep. The emails are already rolling in
I have to say, I liked this list for so many reasons. One, you used an algorithm. You didn’t just say “Hey, I like this person so I’ll put them on the list.” Second, you used multiple grading criteria. Third, I can link directly to Twitter accounts or Blogs.
Awesome job!
Trying to provide the best resources out there! Glad it helps!
As you requested, Peter, here I am commenting. I maintain two agile-related blogs: jbrains.ca and blog.thecodewhisperer.com. Thanks for responding to my tweet, and thank you for promoting the agile community.
Appreciate it J.B. – This helps me gather more RSS and Blogs and helps the community as well for those that I’ve missed~~~
Hi Peter,
My blog is http://availagility.co.uk in case it wasn’t included.
If it was included I’d be interested in understanding what would help its ranking!
Karl
Karl, I’ll DM you with your stats. Thanks for adding. I did have you on the original list. I’ll check it out.
***DUE TO THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF EMAILS I HAVE BEEN RECEIVING ABOUT THIS POST:
1. I believe I may have the most comprehensive (total) list of blogs on Agile… BUT
2. That doesn’t mean I have YOURS (I’m only one man after all).
3. If I missed yours and you believe you made the cut, please post a comment on this blog about your blog and any other info if possible.
4. I’ll re-run the algorithm in due time. This list is a comprehensive list but fair. I’ll keep it updated and run the list as much as I can (It’s a lot of work btw).
5. Please follow me @agilescout to stay up-to-date on updates on the list
Lastly, if you DM me or email me with things like: “Your list is stupid,” or “Your algorithm sucks.”
1. Thank you for reading my blog.
2. Please blog more to help the Agile community
3. Thank you for reading my blog.
seems like a killer list.
Thanks for being so open about updating this list. I know how hard it is to judge people as “in” or “out”, no matter how objective or subjective the criteria. I helped choose the Gordon Pask Award winners for a few years, and while I enjoyed it, the community beat me up quite a lot for it.
I really wanted to know how to submit myself for consideration without coming off as a whiner. Thanks for not seeing it that way.
No problem. I love helping out the Agile community. Your support and professionalism is an indication of your character. +1 back at you.
Great list! I blog at http://pagilista.blogspot.com (“Pragmatic Agilist: Non-zealot reflections on real life agile leadership, management and analysis practices.” Thanks for doing this compilation, and especially for the one on top women bloggers.
Great! Thanks for letting us know!
Hi Peter,
Please add my blog http://www.agilethoughts.dk to the list too… I’m pretty sure I’ll not make the cut this time around, but hope to do it in the future. Will you watch how thinks develop or will I have to pitch my blog again in the future?
Thanks in advance.
/Martin
having a rubric/formula … +1.
doing the research for 200 blogs… +1.
having the guts to do it… +1.
publishing the list publicly… +1.
being prepared for criticism… +1.
And the emails keep pouring in…
+1
Any chance of exporting them all in an OPML?
I wouldn’t mind exporting the final (without algorithm) in due time…
How did you miss my blog?
http://www.targetprocess.com/blog
I’ll run it through… I’m not so sure!
Added you. Welcome to the 200 club
Results will change this Friday
I wonder how come that TargetProcess blog has only 464 subscribers. It has 1500 on average,
I use the google feedburner metric. When I look you up today on the “Agile Blog” only, I come up with 560.
That’s strange. Right now feedburner banner shows 1465 subscribers… http://targetprocess.com/blog/
I sent you email.
Hi, great list, seems I got some reading to catch up on
Noticed that #14 & #20 are the same blog. Only diff displayed is the rank-rss value
cheers
Yep. I got that. The new version will be out Friday. Inspect and adapt!
Although I hardly use the word agile in my postings I do write a lot about the subject disguised as general software development and – lately – software design. I guess that’s mainly because agile should be more common sense and is a means to an end to produce working software
Fair enough! Now you have been discovered
Thanks for letting us know!
Hi Pete. Congratulations on producing this list, it really is an outstanding piece of work and you can’t possibly be expected to cover everyone.
Regarding my own blog, I know when I moved it to WordPress I sent you duplicate emails for a week or so while I was sorting it out, and hence I was accidentally dropped from your list.
That’s a shame, I think I might have sneaked in there somewhere and would have been curious to know where.
Anyway, well done, it’s great and I think it will bring you lots of well deserved traffic and links!
Kelly.
Your on the list now! Congrats!
Great list, lots of work. And lots of great new blogs to check out. Thanks for all the work and sharing (and sharing how you came up with it).
Cheers,
Scott
Glad you made it!
All for promoting the Agile community!
At the frequency in which I write, I’m amazed I’m even on here.
Well.. the stats speak for themselves! Congrats!
Likewise – and thrilled to be on the list. Thanks Peter, and thanks to all of our shared readers!
Thanks for providing great content for the community!
Great list. please consider my blog the next time. http://www.jimhighsmith.com. thks
Jim, I’ll add you into this iteration. Stay tuned
Quick thing I noticed, Entry # 104 “Scrum Breakfast” by Peter DOES have a twitter account “@peterstev”. You can update your DB. Will check through if there are any misses. Then again – S.O.L.I.D post!
Thanks! Updated!
cool! mine is the last one
still great!
Yeppo! Just made the cut!
Hi Peter, consider my one http://pierg.wordpress.com
Ciao
PierG
Will do. I’ll add you to the list!
Hi Peter,
I would be interested to know if my views on my blog Manage Well (http://managewell.net) make it to the list
thanks
TV
Will run it through next time! Thanks!
woah, #19 for Hacker Chick Blog – snazzy. Thanks!
Word. Love your stuff!
I’m sure my blog wasn’t in your list yet (I started only recently). But I’d like to participate: http://mhjongerius.tumblr.com/
Twitter: @mhjongerius
Word. We’ll add you into the system… see how you fair.
Hi Peter,
Excellent work, hats off. Can I participate in the next evaluation? My blog is available here: http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/
Thanks,
Zsolt
For sure!
Thx
Hey, great list – we’d love to be considered in the future as well. We’ve got a pretty good backlog of all sorts of Scrum information on our blog at http://boost.co.nz/blog
We’ve also got a reasonable Twitter following (@boostnewmedia), and a good pagerank and RSS following too. Fingers crossed we can make the cut next time.
Keep up the good work!
When I click your blog. It’s off line…
Sorry, my blog is only in french…
We can add you! THanks for commenting!
Great list Peter! And such a cool objective approach. Gutted I didn’t make it onto the top 200 though
Jon.
Next time friend!
Great list Peter, thanks!
My blog is fairly new, so I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t make it in the top 200, but I’d appreciate if you could include it in future refreshes. http://www.beyondreqs.com
Sweet. Thanks for the add!
Thanks Peter for including my blog in the list. Your site is an inspiration for me and am proud to be featured here.
No problem! Add the badge to your blog!
Awesome list! Thanks, Peter!
I’d love to see my blog added to this list, but I’m quite sure I don’t make it to the 200, yet. But I think it is worth a try
Here is the link: http://blog.scrumphony.com
Cheers,
Marc
Marc, thanks for letting me know! I’ll throw you in the bucket!
I’d be interested in having my blog evaluated. @sbarber on Twitter.
–
Scott Barber
System Performance Strategist & CTO, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
http://www.perftestplus.com
http://about.me/scott.barber
“If you can see it in your mind…
you will find it in your life.”
Done and done. Will put it up for next eval!
Great list, I see many blogs that have influenced me and helped me to become better!
I’m blogging both in Dutch and English, on Agile, CMMI, Communication, and on developing people. Please see http://www.benlinders.com/category/english/ for all English postings.
Ben Linders
Senior Consultant
Twitter: @BenLinders
Website: http://www.benlinders.com – Sharing my Experience!
Thanks! Will check it out
Hi Peter,
Just recently launched http://www.kanbanway.com. So the stats could be low. I have been getting a lot of good feedback on the posts and figured I’d write to you.
Twitter: @kanbanPM
Cheers
CA
Sounds good to me!
Please find following blog posts from me at http://improvementstory.net
Blog List
What is Enterprise Agility? My definitive answer.
Published 18th of October 2011
Agile for Development, Lean for Deliveries
Published 15th of October 2011
User-experience (UX) and Agile
Published 12th of October 2011
Scrum vs Kanban. Batch or Flow Process for a Mid-Size Project?
Published 6th of October 2011
Planning Priorities using Epics-to-Feature Matrix
Published 29th of September 2011
Advanced Iron Triangle of Project Constraints
Published 29th of September 2011
Do You Need Project Manager in Agile?
Published 28th of September 2011
Waterfall is in the Requirements
Published 26th of September 2011
Four Steps to Lean Transformation
Published 25th of September 2011
Applying Value-Thinking to Product Backlog
Published 24th of September 2011
Interesting
Hi Peter,
Simply “A M A Z I N G” work.
While i can completely understand what you might have gone through not just preparing the list but with all the lovely emails that you would have/are receiving
, can i request you to please add our agile blog to your database. I ll assume we ll be on top spot for next revision
.
http://www.toolsjournal.com/agile
Will be pleased if you could send us any stats and how we did to our email.
Simply great to see all the comments and getting to know them more.
-Sudheer
Peter,
Just stumbled on this today, and it’s awesome!
I’d love to be included in your next iteration. My blog is at http://www.gilzilberfeld.com
Gil Zilberfeld
On it! Thanks!
Check out Assembla’s blog at http://blog.assembla.com. It is a mix of product updates and general agile and development best practices. Lots of good stuff for Agile teams.
Thanks!
Hi Peter,
What a great list! It’s a terrific resource.
Would you please take a look at our two SolutionsIQ blogs to see if they’re worthy of inclusion?
AgileIQ: http://www.solutionsiq.com/resources/agileiq-blog/
The Agile CEO: http://www.solutionsiq.com/the-agile-ceo/
Thanks so much!
Pam
‘FO’SHO.
Are you planning to update this list?
Yep. Next year, mid year.
YOU CAN ALSO ADD YODIZ TO THE LIST
SURE!@ AS LONG AS EVERYTHING IN THE TOOL IS WRITTEN IN CAPS
Good list! I write on all areas of Project Management including agile methods. Would love to be considered for your list…
Bruce
Not bad. Like the stats. Continue to grow!
Consider http://www.tusharsomaiya.com/
Will check it out! Tweet us!
ScrumTurkey is a non-profit organization in Turkey. Our aim is to promote Agile and Scrum.
what is your www?
Hi Peter,
Excellent work.
Thanks,
Ravi.
Thank you for the comprehensive list!
We are an agile software company from Finland. Our blog is about agile and about running an agile enterprise. Feel free to include it to your list if you find it interesting: http://thehoustonway.com/
All the best!
-Ohto
Hi Peter – as discussed, http://www.scrumshortcuts.com/blog is my blog that has now been picked up by Mike Cohn and is being converted into a book forthe Addison-Wesley, Cohn Signature Series! The blog is barely a year old but has been getting really good traction. I hope it will be considered for the 2012 list and keep up the great work!
My “agile” blog is not in the top list. It’s obious for some reasons:
1) It’s is in italian and not in english.
2) It’s more philosophical than technical. I talk about the “agility” of some people (or literary characters) that are not related to software developement. But
1) I read the english translation of google and I change my post until the google english translation is good enough.
2) I think that it could be interesting, expecially in a country like Italy that had a long history of “agility” in every day culture, but when the upper class and ruling class seems to need to forget its culture and likes heavy bureaucracy, correct the effects without considering the causes, discouraging people …
Thanks for dropping us a line! We’ll look into it!
Hi there Peter,
Firstly, thanks for taking the time to compile such a comprehensive and well curated list.
I wonder if you would consider http://www.valueflowquality.com on the next occasion you review this list.
Thanks, Dan.
Looks good!
Trends and Dimensions on Agile from a People10 perspective
Lately, the tech bloggers and agile bloggers are becoming popular. It implies the quickly growing popularity of agile software development practices.
Hi Peter,
It is great list! And also it’s a terrific resource.
I hope in the future my blog http://pmscrum.ru also will be in the top list.
All the best!
Mike
Wow, this list is pretty great! I’ve recently been looking into Agile development but it’s a whole new world for me.
Having a list like this with the top Agile blogs will give me a LOT of sources for ideas and inspiration. I’ve already looked at about 20 of them and some contain some really amazing work.
Thanks for taking the time to put this list together.
It’s true we write about our own software for managing software development, build, deployment and management, but we also write about more general Agile topics.
I am Agile, hear me roar
*roar*
great list! And also it’s a brilliant resource.
Hope you like my Agile blog!
http://everydayagile.wordpress.com/
Feedback would be really good, although I’m not in same league as the guys above
Thanks! Keep writing!
Hi Peter
I’m not blogging on Scrumcoaching.wordpress.com anymore, I have moved to http://www.growingagile.co.za/blog
Would love it if you could include my new blog instead of my old blog when you next update this list.
Thanks
Karen