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In today's software development environment, requirements often change during the product development life cycle to meet shifting business demands, creating endless headaches for development teams. These authors from AG Communications Systems discuss their experience in implementing the Scrum software development process to address these concerns. In experimenting with the Scrum software development process, they have found that small teams can be flexible and adaptable in defining and applying an appropriate variant of Scrum.

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This unusual experience report about mining and documenting patterns describes lessons learned from writing a set of patterns. Many times, pattern stories report on an author's expertise and creation of a set of patterns and their application in that area of expertise. When Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns were working on a collection of patterns for introducing patterns, they built on their experience and looked to others' successes—uncovering new patterns and seeing examples, stories, and known uses of the patterns they had discovered. After their book Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas was published, Rising produced a patterns hand book for agricultural innovations. This experience gave her a broader and deeper understanding of what they had written. This article is part of a special issue on software patterns.