There is no such role as project manager in Scrum. But there are project managers in the organization. So what is the project manager supposed to do when the team is transitioning to Scrum? The easy part is that this question has already been asked and answered so many times. The hard part is that the answers are different and sometimes contradict each other.

Jeff Sutherland is one of the originators of Scrum. In this article he retraces his experiences with Scrum in five very different companies.

People who have experienced good stand-ups will generally know what can be done when things aren't working well. This capability is obviously less likely for people with limited experience to reflect on. I've written this paper as an attempt to partly compensate for inexperience by describing the benefits and consequences of common practices for daily stand-ups. These patterns of stand-ups are intended to help direct the experimentation and adjustment of new practitioners as well as provide points of reflection to experienced practitioners.

If you have, as most people do, two-week iterations, you will hold, more or less, 20 retrospectives in a year. Running such a number of retrospectives becomes an interesting challenge. How do you keep your team focused during retrospectives? How do you avoid retrospective monotony? How do you find ideas for a different and original retrospective in each iteration?

There’s a lot of buzz on Kanban right now in the agile software development community. Since Scrum has become quite mainstream now, a common question is “so what is Kanban, and how does compare to Scrum?” Where do they complement each other? Are there any potential conflicts? Here’s an attempt to clear up some of the fog.

This article presents what are the Scrum Product Owner activities and how he has to keep the balance of interests between the Scrum team and the other stakeholders.

This article propose eight key arguments to sell Scrum to your boss.

This article recounts the story of how to learn the value of limiting work in progress and removing blockages to allow the flow of work in an IT server lab, and how to apply these lessons in Scrum.

This is the story of one team’s road to Agile using Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010

By being aware of issues documented in this article you can be prepared for them or, perhaps, not feel too bad that you are experiencing them yourself – they are common.