Have you ever wondered how to tell if your team has implemented Scrum “right”? Well, here is a checklist by Henrik Kniberg which may help your team become more effective overall and give you some insight into Scrum practices to help get you there.

As many of the more experienced software people know, many of the practices which are used in the agile space can be helpful no matter what your approach to software delivery is. Johanna Rothmann is a thought leader in the software industry and discusses risk reduction in this interview at InfoQ.

This article at InfoQ is an interesting take on using Scrum in an environment that it is not well nourished. Should a ScrumMaster be a blocker to help the team get things done or is this a smell to avoid?

Antony Marcano describes how examples and specifications get used within software development efforts and the role they play in validation and verification in this article. It underscores the reasons for using Specification by Example in agile.