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

Mike Cohn has provided another great article on how a team can write non-functional requirements in a basic user story format.

Jakob Nielsen has written an article on usability in Agile development projects with some general guidelines and links to in depth research into best practices and a 2-day course.

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.

The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.

This article describes a presentation from Mitch Lacey on “When Working Software is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure” with significant details about what lead to the failure.

Tim Brown describes what makes “T-shaped” people tick and how they can drive innovation for organizations in this article.

The author of this blog entry describes how user stories are insufficient for quality requirements (aka non-functional requirements) and Chris Sterling has this blog entry on how to use an “Abuse User Story” to describe the cost of not addressing quality attributes in a user story format.