ANNOUNCEMENT: Combining agileTeams with Agile Analytics and Beyond
Why I'm merging the agileTeams newsletter into the agile section of my main personal newsletter
This post was originally published on agileteams.substack.com on July 12, 2024, at 12:30pm EDT. It is copied here to the agile section of karensmiley.substack.com for completeness, but it is not being re-sent to subscribers of this newsletter.
Folks, I’ve been writing here on Substack for 4.5 months now in 3 publications (Agile Analytics and Beyond, 6 ‘P’s in AI Pods, and agileTeams). This week, I studied my subscriber data to see how much the audiences overlap. The data shows very high overlap between agileTeams and AAaB. Only 1 subscriber (who just followed me here from Facebook last week) is subscribed here and not yet on AAaB!
I’ve always believed in the agile focus on simplicity. The quote “everything should be as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler” has been on my agileteams.com home page since the early days 🙂. (It’s usually attributed to Einstein.)
Based on this subscriber data, I’ve decided to simplify life for all of the other agileTeams/AAaB readers as well as myself. I’m merging this newsletter into the ”agile” section of Agile Analytics and Beyond. (I’ve known that one new subscriber for decades. I’m confident they won’t mind the move.) This will give us:
one less incoming email sender in your contacts,
one less publication to manage, for me, and
one combined place for us to discuss agile-adjacent topics.
If you’re curious about the Substack newsletter migration steps, this post describes how I moved the agileTeams content and subscriber info.
The main thing I want to share with you is that I’m making this change, and why. I also want to make sure you know that future newsletter posts on agile topics will now come from karensmiley+agile@substack.com, not agileteams@substack.com.
Please add the new karensmiley+agile@substack.com email to your address book so the newsletters reach you!
On a personal note, moving on from the agileTeams newsletter name is the end of an era for me. In truth, though, agile was only ever a part of what I did, before and after I dove into formal learning and coaching. And agile values and principles fused a long time ago with how I work and live.
So I’m not really leaving agile behind. And I’m definitely not leaving teams behind. I’m merely integrating agileTeams as part of my bigger newsletter, just like I’ve integrated agile into my life.
I’ll see you all on the main newsletter! Please DM me or email if you have any concerns or any feedback for me.
(For any readers of this post who weren’t yet subscribers to my newsletter, I invite you to subscribe for free below, or subscribe directly to just the agile section here.)
