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10 Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow on Twitter
09 September 2020
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đĽ The top 10 list was updated. You can see the latest version here.
This is a select list of agile project management thought leaders and influencers on Twitter. We started with over 200 prominent accounts and we got it down to the top 10. We're transparent about the criteria for making this list, so here's how we did it. To qualify, Twitter accounts were required to meet all of the following characteristics:
- account is for a person or a professional association,
- account is 3 or more years old,
- account is active (1 or more tweets in the last 30 days),
- 1,000 or more tweets,
- 7,000 or more followers, and
- 90% or more of tweets have engagement (e.g., likes and retweets).
The list is sorted by engagement level, presented in descending order. In cases where multiple accounts have the same engagement level, the number of followers breaks the tie. Data source: Twitter. Data is as of September 9, 2020. Disclosure: Scott M. Graffius is the author of Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions. Source of screen shot images: respective Twitter accounts. Names, marks, and images are the property of their respective owners. Here are the top 10 accounts meeting all of the criteria described above.
#1
Scott M. Graffius
- Twitter handle: @scottgraffius
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/scottgraffius
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile project management consultant, practitioner, award-winning author, and keynote speaker. Thinkers360 named me a top thought leader and influencer."
- Account is 10 years old
- 187 tweets in the last 30 days
- 4,292 tweets
- 8,053 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
#2
Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Twitter handle: @pminstitute
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pminstitute
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Our mission—Making you and your projects more successful."
- Account is 11 years old
- 175 tweets in the last 30 days
- 23,118 tweets
- 128,093 followers
- 99% of tweets have engagement
#3
Scrum Alliance
- Twitter handle: @scrumalliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ScrumAlliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "We are Transforming the World of Work. Since 2001, we have supported the agile movement as the only member-driven nonprofit certifying body in the agile space."
- Account is 11 years old
- 23 tweets in the last 30 days
- 9,835 tweets
- 59,324 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
#4
PM Voices
- Twitter handle: @pmvoices
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pmvoices
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Insights on all things PM, created by and for project practitioners"
- Account is 11 years old
- 47 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,873 tweets
- 52,250 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
#5
Mike Cohn
- Twitter handle: @mikewcohn
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mikewcohn
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and practitioner. I blog at http://mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog #MGSClasses"
- Account is 11 years old
- 11 tweets in the last 30 days
- 5,187 tweets
- 48,218 followers
- 97% of tweets have engagement
#6
Jeff Sutherland
- Twitter handle: @jeffsutherland
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Co-Creator of #Scrum"
- Account is 12 years old
- 6 tweets in the last 30 days
- 2,523 tweets
- 49,615 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#7
Alistair Cockburn
- Twitter handle: @TotherAlistair
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer, specialty massage, poet. Sits underwater. Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting."
- Account is 11 years old
- 67 tweets in the last 30 days
- 30,365 tweets
- 29,342 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#8
Lisa Crispin
- Twitter handle: @lisacrispin
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/lisacrispin
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Now available, Amazon & LeanPub: _Agile Testing Condensed_! See AgileTestingFellow.com, agiletester.ca, She/her. Quality owner, @OutSystems R&D, #o11y-bound!"
- Account is 12 years old
- 413 tweets in the last 30 days
- 134,332 tweets
- 19,618 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#9
Agile Alliance
- Twitter handle: @agilealliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/agilealliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Agile Alliance is a nonprofit global member organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of #Agile software development as outlined in the #AgileManifesto."
- Account is 10 years old
- 127 tweets in the last 30 days
- 9,636 tweets
- 34,045 followers
- 93% of tweets have engagement
#10
Roman Pichler
- Twitter handle: @romanpichler
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/romanpichler
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Product management expert. Author of 'How to Lead in Product Managment’, ‘Strategize', and 'Agile Product Management with Scrum.'"
- Account is 10 years old
- 2 tweets in the last 30 days
- 1,819 tweets
- 14,151 followers
- 93% of tweets have engagement
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2020 Updates to the Scrum Guide: 7 Key Changes, and Why There's No Impact to the Award-Winning Book Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
24 November 2020
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Countless organizations and resources are vanguards of agile including Scrum. Many take guidance from the Scrum Guide, which is periodically revised. An updated version was released on November 18, 2020. This article highlights the key changes in the Scrum Guide. And it covers what impact — if any — those updates have on the award-winning publication, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions.
The update to the Scrum Guide includes seven key changes. They are:
- The update is less prescriptive. For example, it removed the implied requirement of questions during the Daily Scrum.
- Before, the Scrum Team was comprised of the Development Team (the people doing the work), Scrum Master, and Product Owner. Now, the Scrum Team is composed of developers (the people doing the work), the Scrum Master, and the Product Owner.
- The update introduces the Product Goal.
- More information on the Definition of Done, and the Sprint Goal. (The Product Goal is covered above.)
- Before, the Development Team was referred to as self-organizing. The update uses the term self-managing and it notes that developers should choose who, how, and what to work on.
- “Why?” was added to the sprint planning topics. So, there are now three: what, how, and why.
- Unnecessarily complex information was removed.
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions notes: “This guide incorporates the values and principles of agile along with information on typical successful Scrum implementations and best practices.” With a bibliography referencing 116 sources, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions was deliberately based on a large and diverse range of sources for the better. Here's just one example among many. While the Scrum Guide was silent on velocity, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions covers the topic: “For example, velocity — the most popular metrics — is not used by some people. However, this guide covers velocity and other leading practices.”
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is definitively not a restatement of a solitary source such as the Scrum Guide. Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions was thoughtfully designed to be “a refreshingly clear and easy to follow guide” based on typical successful implementations and best practices from a multitude of sources.
So, what is the impact — if any — of changes to the Scrum Guide on Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions? That’s covered next. The scale of 0-10 is used, where 0 represents no impact and 10 indicates a significant impact.
Item 1: Less Prescriptive
- Scrum Guide: The update to the Scrum Guide is less prescriptive. For example, it removed the implied requirement of questions during the Daily Scrum.
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book was already non-prescriptive. While it is centered on leading practices, it notes: “Every aspect does not need to be followed to the letter. Just as a value of agile is ‘individuals and interactions over processes and tools’ and a principle is ‘inspect and adapt,’ whatever approach you decide to use should be adjusted as appropriate to your unique circumstances.” That’s just one example.
- Impact: 0.
Item 2: The Team
- Scrum Guide: Before, the Scrum Team was comprised of the Development Team (the people doing the work), Scrum Master, and Product Owner. Now, the Scrum Team is comprised of developers (the people doing the work), the Scrum Master, and the Product Owner. Simply put, “Development Team” was changed to “developers.”
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: This label change should not impact how a Scrum Team works together. (Note: while the change may have been an attempt to simplify matters, calling them something other than developers may have been even better. In Scrum, developers are defined as those who do the work. However, for many people, a technology developer/engineer immediately comes to mind.)
- Impact: Between 0 and 1.
Item 3: Product Goal
- Scrum Guide: The update introduces the Product Goal.
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book already covers the Product Goal.
- Impact: 0.
Item 4: Definition of Done, and the Sprint Goal
- Scrum Guide: More information on the Definition of Done, and the Sprint Goal. (The Product Goal is covered above.)
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book already suitably covers the Definition of Done (including seven examples, and more) and the Sprint Goal.
- Impact: 0.
Item 5: Self-Managing
- Scrum Guide: Before, the Development Team was referred to as self-organizing. The update uses the term “self-managing” and it notes that developers should choose who, how, and what to work on.
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book already covers the who, how, and what to work on.
- Impact: 0.
Item 6: Added “Why?” to Sprint Planning
- Scrum Guide: “Why?” was added to the sprint planning topics. So, there are now three: what, how, and why.
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book already covers the “why” via the sprint goal during sprint planning.
- Impact: 0.
7. Unnecessary complexities
- Scrum Guide: Unnecessarily complex information was removed.
- Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions: The book was conscientiously built to be “a refreshingly clear and easy to follow guide.” Unnecessary complexities were never included, so they don’t need to be removed.
- Impact: 0.
The updates to the Scrum Guide are helpful. However, as delineated above, they have no impact on the award-winning book, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions.
Hailed as “a must-have” and “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully” and “a superbly written and presented guide that is applicable across a broad range of businesses from consumer products to high-tech,” award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions by author Scott M. Graffius is a refreshingly clear and easy to follow guide based on typical successful implementations and best practices from a multitude of sources. The 2020 updates to the Scrum Guide have no impact on Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions. Several updates to the Scrum Guide involved adding information that was already provided by Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions.
About Scott M. Graffius
Scott M. Graffius, PMP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, ITIL, LSSGB is an agile project management consultant, practitioner, award-winning author, and international speaker. Content from his books, speaking engagements, and more has been used by businesses, governments, and universities, including: Gartner, Oracle, Cisco, Ford, Qantas, Atlassian, Bayer, the National Academy of Sciences, the United States Department of Energy, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Tufts University, Texas A&M, and others. Thinkers360 named Scott a Top 20 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on Agile. His full-length bio is available at: https://bit.ly/bio-smg.
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10 Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow on Twitter: Updated for 2021
24 April 2021
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đĽ The top 10 list was updated. You can see the latest version here.
Follow these top agilists to learn ideas for implementing agile.
This is a select list of agile project management thought leaders and influencers on Twitter. We started with over 220 prominent accounts and we got it down to the top 10. We're transparent about the criteria for making this list, so here's how we did it. To qualify, Twitter accounts were required to meet all of the following characteristics:
- account is for a person or a professional association,
- account is 3 or more years old,
- account is active (defined as 1 or more tweets in the last 30 days),
- 1,000 or more tweets,
- 7,000 or more followers,
- 90% or more of tweets have engagement (e.g., likes and retweets), and
- Tweets were retweeted 0.75 or more times on average.
The list is sorted by engagement level (weighted at 4) and the sub-factor of average retweets per tweet (weighted at 1). In cases where multiple accounts have the same engagement level or average retweets, the number of followers breaks the tie. Data source: Twitter. Data is as of April 24, 2021. Disclosure: Scott M. Graffius is the author of Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions. Source of screen shot images: respective Twitter accounts. Names, marks, and images are the property of their respective owners. Here are the top 10 accounts meeting all of the criteria described above.
#1
Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Name: Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Twitter handle: @pminstitute
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pminstitute
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Our mission—Making you and your projects more successful."
- Account is 12 years old
- 269 tweets in the last 30 days
- 25,331 tweets
- 131,844 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 2.78 times on average
- Project Management Institute (@PMInstitute) placed 1st
#2
Scott M. Graffius
- Name: Scott M. Graffius
- Twitter handle: @scottgraffius
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/scottgraffius
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Agile project mgmt. practitioner and consultant. CEO @Exceptional_LLC. Author @AgileScrumGuide. International speaker. Named a top thought leader & influencer."
- Account is 11 years old
- 275 tweets in the last 30 days
- 6,222 tweets
- 8,423 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 3.44 times on average
- Scott M. Graffius (@scottgraffius) placed 2nd
#3
Jeff Sutherland
- Name: Jeff Sutherland
- Twitter handle: @jeffsutherland
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Co-Creator of #Scrum and #ScrumatScale and Signatory of the #AgileManifesto"
- Account is 13 years old
- 1 tweets in the last 30 days
- 2,537 tweets
- 51,129 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 10.25 times on average
- Jeff Sutherland (@jeffsutherland) placed 3rd
#4
Scrum Alliance
- Name: Scrum Alliance
- Twitter handle: @scrumalliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ScrumAlliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "We are Transforming the World of Work. Since 2001, we have supported the agile movement as the only member-driven nonprofit certifying body in the agile space."
- Account is 12 years old
- 55 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,142 tweets
- 60,437 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 2.44 times on average
- Scrum Alliance (@ScrumAlliance) placed 4th
#5
Mike Cohn
- Name: Mike Cohn
- Twitter handle: @mikewcohn
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mikewcohn
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and practitioner. I blog at http://mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog #MGSClasses"
- Account is 12 years old
- 16 tweets in the last 30 days
- 5,288 tweets
- 49,137 followers
- 97% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 7.66 times on average
- Mike Cohn (@mikewcohn) placed 5th
#6
Alistair Cockburn
- Name: Alistair Cockburn
- Twitter handle: @TotherAlistair
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer, specialty massage, poet. Sits underwater. Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting."
- Account is 12 years old
- 74 tweets in the last 30 days
- 32,299 tweets
- 30,044 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.62 times on average
- Alistair Cockburn (@TotherAlistair) placed 6th
#7
Lisa Crispin
- Name: Lisa Crispin
- Twitter handle: @lisacrispin
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/lisacrispin
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Now available, Amazon & LeanPub: _Agile Testing Condensed_! See http://AgileTestingFellow.com, http://agiletester.ca, She/her. Let's succeed w continuous delivery together."
- Account is 13 years old
- 383 tweets in the last 30 days
- 140,849 tweets
- 20,088 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 0.78 times on average
- Lisa Crispin (@lisacrispin) placed 7th
#8
Roman Pichler
- Name: Roman Pichler
- Twitter handle: @romanpichler
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/romanpichler
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Product management expert. Author of 'How to Lead in Product Managment’, ‘Strategize', and 'Agile Product Management with Scrum.'"
- Account is 11 years old
- 3 tweets in the last 30 days
- 1,882 tweets
- 15,188 followers
- 94% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 8.7 times on average
- Roman Pichler (@romanpichler) placed 8th
#9
PM Voices
- Name: PM Voices
- Twitter handle: @pmvoices
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pmvoices
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Insights on all things PM, created by and for project practitioners"
- Account is 12 years old
- 61 tweets in the last 30 days
- 11,296 tweets
- 53,205 followers
- 95% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.33 times on average
- PM Voices (@PMvoices) placed 9th
#10
Agile Alliance
- Name: Agile Alliance
- Twitter handle: @agilealliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/agilealliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "#Agile Alliance is a global nonprofit membership organization dedicated to people and organizations that apply the values and principles of the #AgileManifesto"
- Account is 11 years old
- 98 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,526 tweets
- 35,036 followers
- 90% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.84 times on average
- Agile Alliance (@AgileAlliance) placed 10th
Follow the 10 Twitter accounts listed above to join the conversation and learn ideas for implementing agile.
Connect with AgileScrumGuide.com on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest.
And connect with agile project management practitioner, consultant, award-winning author, and international speaker Scott M. Graffius on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
This story was simultaneously published here at https://agilescrumguide.com and at https://www.exceptional-pmo.com.
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