Welcome to the April 6th edition of the Carnival of Agilists. The blogroll pointing you to some of the latest thoughts in the agile community. K

icking off this week's carnival is J. Timothy King - a new blogger to our community - trying to Break Your Process Addiction. Welcome!

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

• Kane Mar follows up his third part in the series on an Enterprise Strategy for Introducing Agile.
• Howard Van Rooijen has announced that Conchango have launched their Scrum for Team System.
• How do you balance the emergent architecture of XP with the component-based architectures required in scaled enterprises? Luke Hohmann provides his opinion on the Role of the Architect.

• What is working software? Where does design fit in? James Shore shares his thoughts in Quality with a Name.
• Christian Gruber provides some sage advice about why technical documentation may become less important in Dehumanizing Documents as described in Mishkin Berteig's blog.

• Alex Pukinskis helps us in Explaining Agile to Your Customers.
• Do you know your customers? Coming from outside our Agile community Patty Seybold provides some radical new approaches to Capturing Deep Customer Knowledge.

• Hugh Macleod has a bit of fun on planning.
• Ester Derby provides Seven Reasons to Have a Retrospective. She then follows up with 7 Ways to Revitalize Your Sprint Retrospectives.

• Ever wonder why everyone else just doesn't get it? Possibly it is in their DNA. Possibly their brain is just not as agile. Scans suggest smarter brains are more 'agile,' not bigger. Now we have medical proof about why we are so smart.
• Want to keep your leadership position? Michael Hugos, a former CIO of Network Services and the author of two books, provides three steps to agility and innovation in his article - Move It or Lose

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