A very interesting look at the history of the Agile movement. What it really meant and what it degenerated into.

Interesting coaching approach for teams. It's indeed hard to get teams to stick to some of the difficult development practices... By mixing several approaches, this looks like she's onto something here.

Clearly that's a big "if"... I don't think we'll ever see the Scrum Alliance really care about developers.

Or why you need proper product management: it requires skills and time. Otherwise it's just botched and product gets developed in "firefighting mode" all the time. This article is a good primer on a few technics for grooming the product backlog.

Excellent take from Ron Jeffries about the current state of the Scrum industry. So many certified Scrum Masters that it's not fun anymore and likely useless... if not outright harmful. That's in part why I always refused to be certified. This kind of schemes tend to lead to such abuses.