Reflecting on the First Half of 2023: Learn Agile Practices in Numbers and Highlights 📈✨
It's a time of celebration, learning, and pushing boundaries, as we explore the world of agile practices and embrace the power of continuous improvement.
⏩ Introduction
Today is a special issue: Learn Agile Practices newsletter is going on holiday, and new issues will return on the 5th of September. Before leaving space for the summer, thou, I thought it was nice to send one last issue to expose the results that #LAP achieved in this first part of 2023.
⏩ Achievements
Learn Agile Practices newsletter started in January, and so far these are the numbers:
27 issues published
34 subscribers
>60 % of the open rate in most of the emails
~400 monthly visits
2 Personal Coaching customers
I know that these are still low numbers - but they are a good start, especially for something that I really care about and I don’t want any tradeoff on the quality of what I deliver in the issues.
After the summer, more content will come:
A shorter version of newsletter issues can be found on Medium
Podcast will start
The Youtube channel will host both video versions of the podcast and shorts
All this content will complete my content offer in order to achieve my mission:
To empower developers to master Agile practices and drive business success through technical excellence.
⏩ Top 3 issues
For those that came here recently, or for anyone coming here some time after the publishing - here is the list of the Top 3 issues from the first part of 2023:
🚀 The XP Effect: How eXtreme Programming Influenced Modern Methodologies 🔥✨ - discovering eXtreme Programming means discovering where all the best practices in software development come from; with this issue I try to make you understand it!
🧩 Decoding OOP Complexity: How Object Calisthenics Makes It Easier! 🚀🔍 - OOP is here for a long time now, but developers still find it hard and struggle to grasp its true essence. The real reason? The true essence of OOP got lost, and now you can rediscover it in this issue!
✋Stop Overcommitting and 🚚 Start Delivering: The Benefits of WIP Limit in Software Development 🧑💻 - By setting a maximum number of tasks that can be in progress at any given time, you can reduce context switching, multitasking, waste, and rework, while increasing visibility, collaboration, and overall efficiency. Discover how my preferred issue (that soon will become a talk)!
⏩ A book for the summer
As you know, all #LAP issues offer a lot of links and resources to keep reading about the topic, in the “Go Deeper” section - the section I actually love the most - so I thought that a good gift for the summer would be to suggest you a book to learn something new!
It’s summer, so I want to suggest a nice short book that can add value to you without being heavy - and that’s why my pick is: Practices of an Agile Developer, by Venkat Subramaniam & Andy Hunt).
I’m currently reading this book - I’m at around half of it - and I think it’s great because it talks about Agile in a very simple and clear way. It contains the best definition I ever read of “Agility” in software development (you will find it in the first page!) and then keeps explaining practices and methodologies to actually be agile in the real world, in a very simple way.
Go for it and you will love it!
⏩ One last thing
The last announcement of today is that the Telegram public group of LAP is officially open! Feel free to join in order to create an easier place for the community to share thoughts and insights about great practices and methodologies like TDD, DDD, XP, etc. You can find the group here.
And this is it for today - enjoy your summer and be ready for some more Agile content on September!