I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I’m sorry now. Let’s explore my current thinking on story points. At least one of us is interested in what I think. Stories, of course, are an XP idea, not a Scrum idea. Somehow, Scrum practitioners have adopted the idea.

Agile is modernizing. Thanks to Lean and Agile pioneers and practitioners, we now have simpler, safer, speedier ways to achieve awesome results. We call these new approaches “Modern Agile” because they’ve evolved far beyond early Agile methods.

When the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was first published, it was not a process, but a set of guiding principles. Two of the core, foundational principles of agile development are reflection and continuous improvement.

It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.

In the article 'No Surprises' Rands has a great throw-away line. He says: I've got an agile-style 'story wall' sitting on my desk at work: this is my latest task tracking system to ignore -- but so far, over three or so weeks, it's working out swimmingly.