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Sorry for the missing a week – I’ve got serious business site renovations going on stay tuned for an announcement in the next week or two (Note this is an estimate and not a commitment).

Jonathan Rasmusson offers the Drucker Exercise a simple way to get a team to gel at the start of a project. I think I might use this with the next team I coach to help break down those initial barriers.

The Mostly Free Detroit Agile Conference a great little conference in Dearbon Michigan (a bit far from Ottawa). Which leads to Matt Heusser: Conferences on the cheap – Matt offers ways of doing conferences for much less than the expected rate.

I keep on hearing about Continuous Deployment and while I think that most teams are not ready for this by a long shot – its one hell of a goal. Eric Reis introduced me to a great case study from Ash Mauyra. The downside of being an outside coach is I rarely get to see clients make it to this level. Usually they let go of their outside consultants long before they get to this stage. Way to got Ash.

Over at Cutter Jim Highsmith has some good reminders around Self-discipline and Self-organization. Short, simple and sweet.

A very large list of on line collaboration tools. Might be useful assuming that you feel you really need distributed teams (see Self Inflicted Agile Injuries).