Agile teams are generally cohesive and are empowered and expected to make day-to-day decisions. A large part of empowerment in Agile methods is that the team makes the decisions, not the project manager. However, there are some risks involved with this type of decision making. In this article I describe some possible risks. Group think [...]

I believe that any software developing company that wants to have a competitive advantage needs to stop focusing on just building features, but instead focus on the users.

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing a bug fix and a Python 2.6 egg.

This is the last version that will support Trac 0.10. After this version, Trac 0.10 support will be dropped.

New features

There are no new features, this is a bug fix release.
A Python 2.6 egg is also available for download.

There is a discussion about combining interaction design and extreme programming. Alan Cooper says you should do interaction design before doing anything else. Kent Beck disagrees as he wants to integrate interaction design in the iterations of XP. What is your opinion?

A presentation about the lessons learnt while doing distributed Scrum. As we have done distributed Scrum in my previous company, this really interests me. Distributed Scrum has some pitfalls, depending on how you organize your projects and teams.