This article describes how Agile Software Development has become an accepted approach within corporations large and small. No more hiding the best thing to hit software development in a while.

If your team or organization are looking to introduce Agile methods, let it be known that there is much more to think about than just best practices. Mike Griffiths presents his own experiences and mistakes to avoid in this 3-part article.

Pete Behrens communicates his thoughts on the new “*-driven development” processes and there market presence designed around selling tools in this article from Trail Ridge Consulting. Pete presents how Scrum, without all the tool hype, is Team-Driven Development and will inspect-and-adapt your organization towards real progress.

Alistair Cockburn describes the intricacies of cooperative game play and it’s relationship to software development in his “Cooperative game manifesto for software development”.

Could this Agile thing really work? If it does work, why are so few companies realizing it’s benefits? These are the sort of questions discussed in this article from CIO magazine and Thomas Wailgum.

The adoption of Agile into a team can be a large endeavor. The changes needed to make it successful are not easily understood by the participants. Jean Tabaka lists out 11 items which could make Agile adoption fail. Teams can use this information to find potential impediments in their adoption path.