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Which Agile thought leader has the most notoriety?

December 31st, 2008 Martin Proulx Leave a comment Go to comments

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During recent weeks and after reading many books, articles and blogs, I wanted to try a little exercise to assess the ‘notoriety’ of certain dominant figures in the world of Agile.

In the following table are presented several names commonly associated with Agile. Some are the authors of the Agile manifesto, while others are rising in popularity.

While this exercise is not scientific and is based on very subjective criteria, it is hopefully a portrait of the current situation as we end the year.

Should other names be added to the list? Do you have any suggestions regarding the scoring method used? I invite you to comment on this blog.

Name and

Web Site (1)

 Agile Manifesto
(2)		 Books Published
(3)		 Google Popularity
(4)		 Blog
(5)		 Wikipedia
(6)		 Notoriety Score
(7)		 Notes

Martin Fowler		 Yes

25
370,000
Blog
Wikipedia		 190

Scott Ambler		 No

24
67,600
Blog
Wikipedia		 172

Dave Thomas		 Yes

16
837,000
Blog
Wikipedia		 157 (8)

Craig Larman		 No

16
67,700
Wikipedia		 111

Robert C. Martin		 Yes

11
102,000
Blog
Wikipedia		 98

David J. Anderson		 No

14
24,600
Blog		 97

Alistair Cockburn		 Yes

10
81,800
Blog
Wikipedia		 91

Kent Beck		 Yes

11
202,000
Wikipedia		 87

Andy Hunt		 Yes

7
107,000
Blog
Wikipedia		 75

Ron Jeffries		 Yes

6
56,800
Blog
Wikipedia		 67

Mike Cohn		 No

6
67,400
Blog		 53

Ken Schwaber		 Yes

6
47,600
Wikipedia		 52

Brian Marick		 Yes

3
39,800
Blog
Wikipedia		 49

Ward Cunningham		 Yes

2
145,000
Blog
Wikipedia		 48

Venkat Subramaniam		 No

4
38,800
Blog		 40

Jeff Sutherland		 Yes 0
46,500
Blog
Wikipedia		 32

James Grenning		 Yes 0
3,750
Blog
Wikipedia		 30

Jim Highsmith		 Yes

2
30,500
Wikipedia		 28

James Shore		 No

1
31,500
Blog		 22

Sanjiv Augustine		 No

1
6,530
Blog		 21

Steve Mellor		 Yes 0
10,200
Wikipedia		 15

Jon Kern		 Yes 0
7,420
Blog		 15

Mary Poppendieck		 No

2
29,300		 13

Tom Poppendieck		 No

2
19,800		 12

Amr Elssamadisy 		No

2
7,590		 12

Mike Beedle		 Yes

1
10,500		 6

Arie van Bennekum		 Yes 0
1,950		 0 

(1) As of December 30th, 2008(2) Author of the Agile Manifesto(3) Based on the number of books listed on Amazon.com Category: Computers & Internet(4) Based on number of occurences for exact searches ("") on Google.ca(5) Actively maintains a blog(6) Has an article on Wikipedia.org(7) (% of Books Published * 1000) + (%Google Popularity * 100) + (Blog * 15) + (Wikipedia * 15)(8) Google popularity is inaccurate as there are many Dave Thomas

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