It's been nearly a year since I first dipped a toe into the Ruby on Rails community. What started as vague curiosity has exploded into full-on fascination with all things RoR, so it was that I decided to attend RailsConf.

The other day a colleague asked, 'in addition to being a Certified Scrum Product Owner, what is it that you're reading'. It was somewhat difficult to answer because in any given week I've got my head buried in a stack of books, blogs and articles but here's the short list specific to Agile, Scrum and Ruby on Rails...

Although at times a bit chaotic, we simulated using Scrum in an end-to-end project using balloons, string, paper-clips and tape which provided a great experiential learning environment and made the subject matter "sticky".