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.

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

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.

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.

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