If you haven’t had a chance yet, take a few minutes to look at the Valve New Employee Handbook at http://www.valvesoftware.co... Valve is best known for their Half-Life, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Portal games, along with the Steam gaming platform. They put out a great product, and the Handbook shines a light into the process of developing great commercial software. Some of the main points: There are no management positions. That’s why Valve is flat. It’s our shorthand ......

It was refreshing to see Ken Schwaber take a fundamentally different approach to "the Scrum talk". He focused on the body of software development research, and how the results of this research leads us towards certain sounds practices - which are also tenants of Scrum. Links: