I'm doing a webinar on June 10th that we've found very helpful to
Agile/Scrum practitioners - particularly those trying to convince testers
and developers to get together. Here's the abstract:

Testing obviously takes on new importance in agile development.
Automated acceptance test, test-driven development, and other
techniques are rising in both importance and practice. These are
necessary, but not enough. Finding errors is only half the problem--
and not the most important half at that. Testing must improve the
development process to avoid the errors in the first place. Errors
aren't just bugs. They include commincation errors, errors in
understanding, and many other kinds of errors.

Quality assurance in the agile world must be one of preventing
errors, not merely finding them. This Web seminar discusses how QA
can improve both the product and the process being used to develop
the product. Participants will learn:

* Why automated acceptance testing enables agile methods
* How QA must work with development teams in order to improve the
process of analyis, design, and code
* How lean thinking is esential in the agile testing environment

Developers, analysts, testers, and people formally in a QA role will
benefit by attending. New ways of conducting acceptance testing, as
well as how to coordinate developers with testers, will be discussed.
In particular, the need for moving test involvement up to the front
of the development cycle will be discussed as well as how this can
greatly improve the process overall.

Go to http://tinyurl.com/6kgc3b to get more information and to register.

Alan Shalloway
CEO, Net Objectives
Achieving Enterprise and Team Agility