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Steven “Doc” List, has a pair of posts on blame: A Culture of Blame and With Blame Goes Guilt – a healthy reminder about where we should place our focus.

Mike Dwyer: Lessons Learned with Distributed Scrums – his experience mirrors my own working with a distributed/dispersed Agile team. Distributed is still painful but tools like this go a little way to minimizing the pain.

In Too Much Meeting and Discussion, Not Enough Coding – Michael James takes on an oft repeat mis-conception with Scrum/Agile – the idea that all those meetings and discussion take away from valuable coding time.

Dave Rooney (one of my partners in crime), wrote: Agile in the Public Sector – about the applicability of Agile in government.

Matt Heusser (at his new diggs) writes about Jerry Weinberg’s “strawberry jam” principle; that the further you spread the training, the thinner it gets: Skill Transfer and the Consultant’s Dilemma – How do you know if the training your providing is taking root.

From InfoQ: The Elephant in the Room: Using Brain Science to Enhance Working Relationships – Is it bunk as several people have suggested? Are the authors biased as someone else suggested? Or is it just good neuroscience? Caveat I was the editor for this article at InfoQ.

Finally Alistair Cockburn’s CSM class gave him a birthday cake – see the picture :-)

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