Over at MySpace they are doing Scrum on many teams. Scott Downey, their internal Agile Coach, describes how he helps a team get kicked off with Scrum through shock therapy methods in this article on Jeff Sutherland’s blog.

Mickey Phoenix tackles refactoring advice in this article on identifying 4 simple code smells and how they can be changed to be more simple and elegant.

Jeff Sutherland describes to the agile community how Scrum came into being and how it’s roots stem from complex adaptive systems. This article has comprehensive information on Scrum early days including discussion group archives.