In This Issue

• VersionOne Fall 2007 Release
• Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Works
• •No More Self-Organizing Teams
• No Training Wheels
• Agile Dev Practices Conference

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VersionOne Fall 2007 Release

The Fall 2007 release of V1: Agile Enterprise includes key product upgrades focused on simplifying the user experience.

Highlights include:

• Customizable My Home "Portlets"
• New Reporting Overview
• Getting Started" Components

Learn more about the latest release HERE
(http://www.VersionOne.com/LatestRelease)

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Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Works

Allan Shalloway of Net Objectives writes in the Agile Journal:

"Agile works. Early adopters, working largely by instinct, have seen good success. To go to the next level, instinct alone is not enough. As we face more complex and uncertain environments, as we face the need to scale to the enterprise, we need to apply intelligence and knowledge, guided by experience. Knowledge about why Scrum works."...

Read the article HERE
(http://www.agilejournal.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=599)

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NO More Self-Organizing Teams

Jim Highsmith of Cutter Consortium writes in his blog:

"I’ve been thinking recently that the term “self-organizing” has outlived its usefulness in the agile community and needs to be replaced. While self-organizing is a good term, it has, unfortunately, become confused with anarchy in the minds of many." ...

Read Jim's blog post HERE
(http://blog.cutter.com/2007/09/13/no-more-self-organizing-teams)

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No Training Wheels...

VersionOne trainer and self-proclaimed "Agile Nerd" uses his inaugural Agile Chronicles post to compare the experience of teaching his kids to ride bikes to teaching teams basic Agile principles...

Read the blog post HERE
(http://www.agilechronicles.com/blog/2007/10/no-training-whe.html)

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Agile Dev Practices Conference - Dec. 3-6, 2007

VersionOne will be exhibiting at the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando, Florida. If you missed Agile 2007, be sure to get down to Orlando. See the SQE/Better Software site to see the impressive list of speakers and tracks.

Orlando, Florida - December 3rd-6th, 2007
Better Software's "Agile Development Practices"

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