A list of advantages and a section on disadvantages of Test-Driven Development (TDD) is presented in this blog entry.

Mario
Moreira describes how infrastructure can be refactored in a similar nature as code in this article.

Lyssa Adkins defines 7 failure modes for Agile Coaches and provides some advice on how to manage against them in this blog entry.

Johanna Rothman provides and explains 3 simple steps teams can follow to transition a Waterfall project to Agile in the middle of the project in this blog entry.

Mark Levison rolls up a listing of post Agile 2008 resources on his blog “Notes from a Tool User” here.

Jeff Sutherland discusses how a venture capitalist firm has figured out that in order to deliver more value the team members must work less.  In this article he introduces the Maxwell Curve that shows this in a visual representation.

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.

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.

This presentation by David Anderson discusses what is Agile, how does the community embrace changes to its foundations, and his thoughts on what will allow us to express more maturity as a community. It is full of thought provoking ideas and potentially controversial methods that are rooted in existing theory and industry practices.

Mary and Tom Poppendieck describe a different way to think about mature organizations and processes in this article.