Writing a dictionary turns out to be a fair piece of work. Who knew? We have had a soft launch this week, with Chris Sims handed out a hundred copies of a "sampler edition" at Agile Roots. And The Agile Dictionary now has a live website, with a handful of definitions, and counting. It is ready for your perusal and commentary at www.agiledictionary.com, where you can even sign up to get the Word of the Week delivered to your inbox. Don't think of it as spam, think of it as an entertaining diversion, something fun to read while you avoid answering all those other supposedly urgent emails.

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I'm just starting to play around with a really cool, freshly launched product called Edistorm, an online app that features draggable stickies and dot voting. It's a bit strangely positioned, as a consumer not a business product–the example in the tutorial is about cake baking–but beneath this surface is what looks like an extremely useful tool for distributed Agile teams who find themselves longing for the chaotic simplicity a sticky wall.

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By Steve Bockman

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." – Yogi Berra

You've probably heard that before. Amusing as it may be, there's solid advice to be gained from Yogi's folksy wisdom.

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