Dhaval Panchal discusses how a Scrum team has used the idea of saving Betsy the cow each sprint to motivate their successful release in this article.

Jeff Sutherland has shared with the community a precursor to “The New New Product Development Game” called “Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn” in this article.

The Agile FAQ has provided some information on what team working agreements and ground rules are in this article.

Kent Beck discusses the use of abstractions versus concrete parameters and why each is usable given the right context in this article.

This email sent to a discussion forum discusses the experiences of a company with 27 development teams using Agile methods.

Here is the video of Brian Marick’s keynote talk at Agile Development Practices 2008.

In her Agile Testing class, Elisabeth Hendrickson conducts an exercise called the WordCount Simulation that is described in detail with this blog post.

Uncle Bob has provided another interesting piece that focuses on the responsibility of people to do good work on their software projects.

Brian again provides an essential work to the Agile community. Find out how to “work with ease” reading the text of his keynote from the Agile Development Practices conference here.

A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.