Elisabeth Hendrickson describes a classroom situation that shows pitfalls of the “hero” attempting to do too much in this article.

Jeff Sutherland and Xebia CTO Guido Schoonheim discuss their success with teams distributed across two locations, Holland and India, with data that shows similar velocity as localized teams in this video.

If your planning meetings are becoming stagnant here are some ideas on how to spice them up from Tom Perry.

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

Elisabeth Hendrickson gives a run-down of test automation tools and their characteristics in this blog post.

Simon Baker has blogged on some ailments, suggestions, and tools that can be used for effective pair-programming in this entry.

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.

Mark Levison has compiled a listing of great Scrum case studies for those interested in how others do it in this blog entry.