How can we map use cases to stories?

As many has noted use cases and user stories are very similar but described in different manner. Have a look at this post which describes how it is possible to map use case to user story. http://agilefaq.net/2008/06/18/how-can-we-map-use-cases-to-stories/

Minimally Agile

Being agile does not necessary means that you must follow all the strict rules. Sometimes if you are agile fundamentalist you will discard some practices as agile because they are not following all the "strict" agile rules. One view is posted here http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2008/06/minimally-agile.html

Top 20 Best Agile Development Books

In linked post you can find a list of top 20 agile books. The original link is http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/jurgenappelo/top-20-best-agile-development-books

Pinky and The Brain

Have a look at cartoon heroes that are making similar mistakes as are done during software development.

See while nor too simple but nor too sophisticated solution need to be the best one.

http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/97-pinky-and-the-brain-

Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning

Release planning is one of the hardest parts of agile software development. Although there is lot of books about agile release planning you must gain experience to be able to really do it good (if you have luck). Here are two useful tips that can provide some help.

http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/96-two-tips-to-help-product-owners-with-release-planning

Watch Out For These Common Problems

Here's some things to keep an eye on as you go forward with agile and scrum:

http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Watch-Out-For-These-Common-Problems.html

Copy-Paste Reasoning

These days as agile is becoming more and more popular there is lot of consultants, companies and books claiming that they are selling you agile cookbook. Just exactly follow the steps explained in those cookbooks and you are doing agile best possible way. Does these cookbooks remained you to something? Waterfall maybe? CMMI? Strict procedures to produce the best software on the world?

For those who are using real agile, who have feeling about agile, not applying it by some book, it is clear that there will never be agile cookbook. Very nice and short article explaining this is http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/jurgenappelo/copypaste-reasoning

10 ways to screw up scrum

Have a link to interesting PDF document describing 10 smells when doing Scrum. You will be surprised how many "agile" companies are doing at least some of mentioned mistakes.

Check your self http://agilefaq.net/2008/05/27/10-ways-to-screw-up-scrum/