InfoQ conducted an interview with Jeff Sutherland where they discussed the Scrum rules. How does a team know they are doing Scrum. This video gets the answers on this topic from Jeff Sutherland, inventor of the Scrum process.

Do you have distributed teams or team members? Are you wondering how we can communicate more effectively throughout the team or across teams in this type of environment. Check out this article for some ideas on how to collaborate more effectively over distances.

Do you have a need for traditional earned value management in your organization? Are you currently implementing Scrum and still have a need for deriving earned value metrics. AgileEVM is a tool that could help. Tamara Sulaiman describes the creation and use of AgileEVM for Scrum projects in this article at InfoQ.

Brent Barton describes in this article how the Meta-Scrum can help to establish and maintain a healthy organization through proper communication of issues and decisions.

See how a company goes Agile in the midst of release cycle in this article. It was a risk that paid off with reductions in testing and packaging time along with 30% increase in developer capacity.

It has been said many times that in order to do Agile you must have a team of senior individuals. This article describes why this is a myth and what can help to make a good Agile team. It is also a call to action for all of us to support others in their understanding of our capabilities.

This article from National Geographic by Peter Miller describes swarm theory which could be an integral notion for handling complex software endeavors. From the article page:

A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.