This is a good explanation of why you should limit your use of mocks. It also highlights some of the alternatives.

A few points to take with a pinch of salt, especially regarding the proposed solutions. Still it makes a very good point that most transformation failures toward agile organizations are due to lack of trust and the swapping of one bureaucracy for another.

This is great news, more scientific papers from the past decades will be accessible to everyone.

Interesting outcome from those experiments. Interesting insights coming from the practices the companies put in place. The failures also bring interesting information.

We're collectively still failing at handling leap days properly it seems.

Looks like enough people complained that they had to change course. Good, until the next bad move...