Moving Stuck Projects Forward: The Clinic Method ...The Clinic Method.  What’s this?  It’s a nurses’ station for projects that are sick.  If a project manager or product owner or scrum master or anyone feels that a project is in trouble, it’s a place to go for help.  Get five or six of your best people and have them meet for half a day, once a week. ... What does this team do when someone brings a problem?  They don’t solve the problem.  They help that person come up with a positive step to move forward...

The Magic Chemistry of Teams - examines some of the characteristics required to build and renew great teams.

Multi Tasking Myth - we're often trained to believe that multi-tasking is good either in the small: doing email and answering the phone. Or in the the large working on two or more projects. This item from Jeff Atwood demonstrates the falsehood of both. This picture illustrates the problem:

Handling Large Stories in Agile - a short item on approaches to splitting large stories/features so that they can be completed in a single iteration.

Track Velocity, Not Time Spent on Tasks - reminds us that we ship features/stories to customers not task. While tasks are useful in helping the team plan, estimate and organizing itself - it really doesn't matter how much time is spent on any one task. Instead what matters is whether the stories are getting completed.