The team is announce announce the release of JBehave Web 3.0. JBehave is a framework for Behaviour-Driven Development.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 20, 2010 Tasktop Technologies and Polarion Software today announced a partnership and a bundled product offering to provide software development teams with a full-featured issue tracking and wiki solution with full Eclipse IDE integration, a rich desktop client interface and offline access to issues and tasks. The Polarion Mylyn Connector will help streamline development, improve visibility and drive software productivity by providing direct access to Polarion Track & Wiki and Polarion Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) from within the Eclipse IDE. The bundled product offering will combine Polarion Track & Wiki with Tasktop Pro to provide development teams with a full-featured issue tracking and wiki solution.

Prague, Czech Republic, September 14, 2010 — JetBrains®, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, announced today a joint release of dotCover, a brand new code coverage tool for .NET developers, and dotTrace 4 Performance, a totally reworked version of their simple yet powerful .NET profiling tool.

MONROVIA, CA- September 20, 2010 - Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions and infrastructure services that improve software quality and the development process, today announced Parasoft Concerto for Agile Development and Management.

Methods & Tools - the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers -  has just published its Fall 2010 issue with the following articles:
* Distributed Agile - Managing Global Agile Projects
* Decomposition of Projects: How to Design Small Incremental Steps
* Source Code Analysis in Agile Projects
* The Core Protocols, an Experience Report, Part 2 - Tools for High Performance Teams
* Tool: tinyPM - Agile project management, Junit - Java unit testing,
  Bromine - Web testing, Agilefant - Agile project management, SoapUI - Web testing

70 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?fall10

The Scrum Alliance has selected Donna Farmer as its new Managing Director. Beginning October 1, 2010, Farmer will lead the non-profit organization, working with the staff and Board of Directors to realize the organization’s vision and mission.

Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book rather any other book published on the same topic? After reading it, I will say that not only you should buy it, but rather you HAD to buy it.

However, the benefit of allowing a team to self-organize isn't that  the team finds some optimal organization for their work that a manager may have missed. Rather, it is that by allowing the team to self-organize, they are encouraged to fully own the problem.

Source: Succeeding with Agile, Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley

Sterling Barton announces AgileEVM, a value-focused, decision-support tool, that enables organizations to evaluate a portfolio’s financial return of Agile projects, and more quickly identify cost, schedule, scope and quality issues.

Some pigs and chicken having their daily Scrum meeting, dealing with a project that seems to need an important refactoring effort to produce clean code. This could explain why the pigs look really tired.